Pensacola Beach Oil Cleanup By The Numbers

June 25, 2010

Here are some numbers related to the oil and cleanup on Pensacola Beach:

  • Pounds of tar balls and oil material collected on Wednesday: 44,955 (total)
  • Pounds collected at West Perdido State Park: 7,500
  • Pounds collected at East Pensacola Pier – 14, 070 pounds
  • Pounds collected at West Pensacola Pier – 13,140 pounds
  • Pounds collected at Gulf Islands National Seashore – 10,245
  • Number of Health Advisory signs posted: 47
  • Number of BP cleanup workers in Escambia County: 1,225
  • Number of Beach Tech 2000 mechanical cleaners: 4
  • Percentage chance a tropical wave in the Caribbean will develop: 40
  • Number of gallons spilling per day: 2.5 million
  • Total number of gallons spilled so far (estimates): 39-111 million
  • Number of days: 66
  • Number of BP claims paid in Florida:  18,694
  • Dollars paid by BP for Florida claims: $16,880,359.96
  • Average payout per claim: $902.98
  • Approximate dollars BP profited in the first three months of 2010: $6 ,000,000,000.00.

Comments

One Response to “Pensacola Beach Oil Cleanup By The Numbers”

  1. oh good grief on June 27th, 2010 7:51 am

    Looks like BP is doing a heck of job making this right with the ppl.
    NOT!

    The sad thing is this won’t be over for years.

    You and I will all lose money over this.
    Our economy here is going to go in the dumpster as never before, as the full scale of this thing hits, and
    more dead sea life and tar land on our beaches and believe me there
    will be lots more, only then will you begin to see the real down turn for
    the whole southern area.

    May more jobs will be lost, and tons of businesses across the south
    will be lost. This will end up costing your children their futures, as
    as the south goes under, how will any of our children be able to receive higher
    education..

    I hope every able bodied man and woman took just one day to go to the
    beach and contribute somehow to the economy AND to the clean up somewhere
    along our shores. No one is going to take care of us, it’s up to ALL of US!

    This has just begun!