Upper Buzzards Bay just south of the Atlas and Tack Superfund site.

The New Bedford side of New Bedford Harbor.

The beginning of the hurricane barrier, inside of the northern side of the barrier.

A view of the new wastewater treatment plant at Fort Taber.

The combined sewer outfall pipe.

Acushnet, MA, Hamilin Street Bridge.

Nonquit Marsh, this culvert is scheduled to be replaced in the round 2 projects.

Fort Robbins, the southern end of Clarks Point.

Acushnet, MA., Hamilin Street Bridge.

The EPA confined disposal facility.

An air monitoring facility at the combined disposal facility.

The New Bedford side of the Inner Harbor near one of the combined disposal facilities on the New Bedford side. The sign here specifically warns people to keep out of the facility.

The New Bedford side of the Inner Harbor near one of the combined disposal facilities on the New Bedford side. The sign here is in Portugese and English. The sign warns people to keep out of the river because it is contaminated.

Pre restoration, since this image was taken Fort Robbins has been cleaned-up.

The future site of the New Bedford Oceanarium.

The marsh on the Fairhaven side of New Bedford Harbor looking across at the old factories.

The Combined Disposal Facility (CDF) on the New Bedford side of the inner harbor.

Clarks Point Wastewater Treatment Facility.

Clarks Point Wastewater Treatment Facility.

New Bedford Harbor, CDF 1. The retaining wall on the eastern edge.

Salt piles on Popes Island, New Bedford Harbor.

Sewage treatment plant settling tank at the southern tip of Clarks Point. The facility is now gone.

Workers dressed in full hazmat gear conduct research to determine the level of contaminants or PCB levels.

Welding the pieces of fabric together at the bottom and sides of the combined disposal facility.

New Bedford Harbor, laying liner at CDF 1.

New Bedford Harbor, placing liner at CDF 1.

New Bedford Harbor, CDF 1 looking north.

The sewage treatment plant at the southern tip of Clarks Point, now gone.

The combined disposal facility.

Fish Island, New Bedford. The derelict vessels have been removed.

Fish Island, New Bedford. The derelict vessels have been removed.

Fort Phoenix at the SE entrance of New Bedford Harbor.

New Bedford Harbor.

An aerial view of the Commercial Fish Pier in New Bedford Harbor, inner harbor, New Bedford side.

Shellfish transplants, New Bedford Harbor.

The Debbie Lee.

Eelgrass being transplanted to outer New Bedford Harbor.

North Cape Barge, grounded on Moonstone Beach, South Kingstown, RI 1996

North Cape Barge, grounded on Moonstone Beach, South Kingstown, RI 1996

The tug, Scandia, grounded in a winter storm was pulling the North Cape The barge carried approximately 828,000 gallons of home heating when tug and barge grounded in Rhode Island waters.

The tug, Scandia, grounded in a winter storm was pulling the North Cape The barge carried approximately 828,000 gallons of home heating when tug and barge grounded in Rhode Island waters.

Frank Csulak of the NOAA Damage Assessment Center watches winter storm conditions at the time of the grounding.

Frank Csulak of the NOAA Damage Assessment Center watches winter storm conditions at the time of the grounding.

Emulsified oil in Point Judith Pond, RI. Oil becomes emulsified when it mixes with water and sediments. Point Judith Pond is a salt water inlet. During the spill oil drifted into many of the salt ponds and inlets.

An oil sheen in the water, The North Cape spill dumped 828,000 gallons of #2 home heating oil into Rhode Island coastal waters.

Sediment samples being collected at the site of the spill.

An upriver location within Point Judith Pond.

Tracey Collier and a NMFS team of scientists were on site to collect samples to test for oil contamination of sediments and in marine organisms.

Dead surf clams washed up on South County beaches after the oil spill. An estimated biomass of 400,000 Kg. of surf clams died in the spill.

Nine million individual lobsters were killed during the oil spill.