By Jonathan Webber
Conservation Campaign Manager
Published September 30, 2010
This article is from Audubon Florida
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The environmental damage from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is here to stay.
Craig Pittman in the St. Pete Times:
In some areas, including national and state parks, that will mean knowingly leaving some oil buried because trying to clean it all up may cause more long-term damage, federal officials said.
To document where that subsurface oil might be, crews have used an auger to drill 2,000 3-foot-deep holes in Escambia County's beaches so far, said Andrew Milanes of Environmental Science Services, the Louisiana contractor BP hired to oversee beach cleanup in Florida.