For the control of certain bacterial diseases of plants, streptomycin was indeed a silver bullet. Unfortunately, just as the emergence of bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics has limited their performance in clinical settings, streptomycin resistance has destabilized plant disease control.
Average costs of the oil spill clean-up for the oil disasters listed in the table work out at $161 Million, this does not include the estimated costs of $12.5 Billion to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, as this is unprecedented and would give a false value. Reference Web:
Survey data indicated that spills that had time to spread to. groundwater were significantly more expensive to clean up. ï· Most cleanups completed in four months or less: $20,000 or less. ï· Typical cleanup cost range: $20,000 to $50,000. ï· Average cleanup costs involving both soil and groundwater: $90,000. On the high end, DEP survey results showed some cleanup costs exceeded $300,000. While the. survey answers were not detailed enough to show all the factors that caused costs to escalate to this.