• Part of the Valdez Marine Terminal (VMT)
  • Storage tanks at Valdez's Ballast Water Treatment Facility.
  • Overview of the VMT.
  • Oil storage tanks at the VMT.
  • Retaining wall between oil storage tanks at the tanker terminal.
  • The council is studying slope stability behind oil storage tanks at the VMT. Valdez suffered major damage from the 1964 earthquake. At 9.2 on the Richter scale, it was North America's largest quake ever.
  • A rare peek inside an oil storage tank at the VMT.
  • The VMT sits at the base of a steep mountainside.
  • Air pollution from VMT operations is of concern to the council. Invisible hazardous air pollutants including benzene, a known human carcinogen, remain unregulated at the Ballast Water Treatment Facility, though work is in progress to greatly reduce harmful emissions.
  • A biological treatment tank, part of the Ballast Water Treatment Facility at the VMT.
  • A dissolved air flotation (DAF) cell at the Ballast Water Treatment Facility.
  • Sign at the Ballast Water Treatment Facility.
  • Sign at the Ballast Water Treatment Facility.
  • Sign at the Ballast Water Treatment Facility.
  • Samples from a BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethelbenzene, xylene) fate study at the Ballast Water Treatment Facility.
  • Walkway to a tanker berth at the VMT.
  • Loading arms for oil at the VMT.
  • Foam fire retardant is tested inside the VMT.
  • Workers inspect the VMT after a foam fire retardant is tested.
  • The southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
  • High winds at the Valdez Marine Terminal sometimes prevent loading of tankers. Here, a wave breaks over containment boom surrounding a tanker at berth. The boom is part of normal loading operations.
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