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Prudhoe Bay well pad and pipelines

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center 2006 (approx.)
Photo from above the ground looking back on an area flooded with large ponds of water around oil pipelines.
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A well pad and pipelines near the shore on the west side of Prudhoe Bay, photographed during a 2006 USGS coastline aerial survey. Although erosion along the Beaufort Sea coast has been accelerating, rates of erosion at Prudhoe Bay appear to be relatively low.

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