BP Reimburses Fort Lauderdale for Oil Spill expenses

Fort Lauderdale has been reimbursed for preparations it took last summer in case the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico affected South Florida.
City Commissioner Bruce Roberts said BP has paid the city $70,000. The company had promised to cover costs of government responses to its spill.
In the wake of the spill, then-City Manager George Gretsas signed an emergency deal with the engineering firm PBS&J to develop a crisis plan and begin sampling and testing water and sediment along the city's beaches and waterways. Gretsas said the work would establish a baseline to determine any damage that results if the oil spill comes here.
The oil spill, though, never reached the currents that would have pulled it toward the southeastern coast of Florida.