How Was Exxon Valdez Cleaned up?

Cleanup workers skimmed oil from the water's surface, sprayed oil dispersant chemicals in the water and on shore, washed oiled beaches with hot water and rescued and cleaned animals trapped in oil.

How long did it take to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill?

Clean-Up of the Exxon Valdez Spill

The entire course of the clean-up operation took around three years from 1989 to 1992 and even now, monitoring is being carried out in the entire length of the coastline to observe any late-emerging effects of the oil spill.

Is the Exxon Valdez cleaned up?

In the months after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Exxon employees, federal responders and more than 11,000 Alaska residents worked to clean up the oil spill. Exxon payed about $2 billion in cleanup costs and $1.8 billion for habitat restoration and personal damages related to the spill.