News that the top kill operation had failed was met with severe criticism from residents and the authorities on the Gulf coast.
"I'm devastated ... We are dying a slow death, every time that oil takes out a piece of the marsh, a piece of Louisiana is gone forever," Billy Nungesser, president of Louisiana's Plaquemines parish, one of the areas worst hit by the spill, said.
Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democratic senator, called on BP to immediately invest $1bn to protect marshes, wetlands and estuaries across the region.
She and David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican senator, urged BP and the federal government to immediately fund and support the plan to use dredging materials to create an offshore island barrier.
Barack Obama, the US president, who has called the leaking well a "manmade disaster", is trying to fend off criticism that his administration acted too slowly in its response to the spill.
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