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1989-05-11 Regular MeetingKodiak Emergency Services Council May 11, 1989 @ 5:00 p.m. Kodiak, Alaska EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL BOB BRODIE (CITY OF KODIAK MAYOR): At two o'clock meeting on the Homer/Seward plan, we rated beaches to try to come up with a priority system to channel resources. Wayne will write something up, and Monday it will be gone over again. BRODIE TO JACK RICKNER (EXXON): Please give us the most up-to-date information on boom. RICKNER: We are working with computers, and we do have the information on booms on board vessels. We are trying to generate that report every morning. We also have printouts that show how many feet of boom is deployed in what area. We do that so we know how to request how much additional boom we need as backup. JEROME SELBY (KIB MAYOR) to RICKNER: Can you put us in loop for this information. RICKNER: Yes, it will probably be 9:30 or later. Any additional data you need? BRODIE: If you have an outline of duties and responsibilities of the SCAT Team, yes. RICKNER: I think it has been outlined in the Kodiak plan proposal. I will make sure the plan reflects what they are doing. RICHARD FORD (USCG) introduced himself. COMMANDER JOE OCKEN (USCG): The overflights weren't a priority today. They continue to find oil on Katmai. Raspberry Island could present some cleanup problems. We are getting additional reports there to get free flowing mousse before it gets to Raspberry. We have been hearing reports that it might be coming through the Straits to Whale Island. Could get to the East Side of Kodiak. New group of mousse coming in to Uyak. The Essayons was detailed here last night. Village cleanup has started. Problem has been logistics in Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 11, 1989 Page 1 03861 getting basic tools and nets, etc. BRODIE: The paper said the villagers had gather 1,200 gallons on a salmon boat. RICKNER: We had supplied them with buckets and totes to collect it. We have been trying to get materials to them because they are putting efforts into it. OCKEN: Chignik--fishing vessels patrolling reported only sheen until midnight. Then spotted tar balls. Most of the impact has been north. That is a problem with by -passing --it can go further down the Strait. Chignik doesn't seem to be getting anything that serious. It seems every overflight sees something free flowing indicating we aren't out of the woods for any impaction. JAY BELLINGER (KODIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE): I was trying to get latest oil information regarding the otter population concentration in the Shelikoff. Another boat is going over there. The otter trainer/catcher went to Larsen Bay and trained two skiff crews to catch and handle otters. It is good we are using people in the villages. They are able to watch otters. If they see one sick, they can do it. BRODIE: If anyone has trained people in, we can use the community college to video it for showing. LARRY NICHOLSON (DEPARTMENT OF FISH & GAME): The northwest end of Afognak was closed to herring. This evening we will close all of Raspberry Straits. One test boat send a video, and it's pretty grim. There is a lot of it in the water --globs of mousse. I look at the way it's coming in, and if it doesn't take most of the beach on the west side, I'll be surprised. Major decisions will have to be made on salmon fisheries. We are going to put a task force of community and industry people together on how to handle operations. DEC is coming out with guidelines and regulations that are new that will be adopted. The memo I gave Exxon a week ago planning for gear for test fishing --we need equipment and now. RICKNER: I talked to the logistics man, and 'John said he was going to check with Valdez to see how many units are procured and how many needed. NICHOLSON: The memo was addressed to Proctor and given to Dorney. Exxon says they lost it. John Harrington is coming to get another copy. SELBY: What about nets for fishermen during summer, and the procedure on how to get them to the fishermen? It was all covered in that memo. What we want is warehousing and stockpiles of nets at different places around Island. NICHOLSON: Some areas will have major cape fisheries going and will need a tender. What we hope to do is run tests prior to a fishery. But, if any gear is fouled, they need to have it taken care of. Seventy units of replacement gear had been ordered for Kodiak but once it got to Valdez, it was gone. Seventy additional to the 24. Five hundred plus permit holders on Kodiak. Dorney cam up with 70 figure. I think it will be light. Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 11, 1989 Page 2 03862 RICKNER: Let me see if we do have it, and if we don't, I hope to give you progress report tomorrow. SELBY: We would rather have too many than not enough. BRODIE: On herring closures, were any caught? NICHOLSON: Just a dab in Raspberry, but none in north end. SELBY: Where are smaller Navy skimmers? RICKNER: One skimmer at Seward, and they are trying to get it operational. I left a message that we wanted that skimmer here, and we need to work mousse before it gets on shore. OCKEN: Plus, we can use Corps of Engineers dredge. NICHOLSON: What do you have for containment? RICKNER: We were hoping to get booms and skiffs and the skimmer to pick it up. We have one skimmer at Big Fort, and we will move it to the worse case situation. NICHOLSONd We tried the typar, and it really sticks to it. If you could have it, it would collect a lot. It is an area you can seine, and I think it would be worth a try. You will need to turn ten to twelve boats loose. RICKNER: One concern is lack of ability to move boom once it's in the water to move it to an emergency area. If you can prioritize list of what is top priorities, we need to be working in that direction. The smaller boats collecting and the dredge recovering oil. SELBY: Raspberry Straits is narrow enough area that it can be picked up. RICKNER: Some oil has been collected in Onion Bay. LINDA FREED (ACTING KIB MAYOR) to RICKNER: Harrington authorized some purchases verbally, and the stores need POs. RICKNER: I will discuss that with John, and we can work PO and requisition through. FREED: We are getting calls from villagers, and they have test kits. Ouzinkie has found oil in the water. We had baseline tests done that were negative. They are now finding oil in water and want to know when they should stop eating shellfish. They are seeing oil on the clam beaches. We need to get something out to them, because they are concerned. If we can have some one give them a guideline at the ten o'clock meeting, it would be better than what they have now. RICKNER: Do we have a health department that can sample tissue? Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 11, 1989 Page 3 03863 FREED: You need to set up a monitoring program for important subsistence areas. SELBY: My recommendation would be for Exxon to contract with the same lab that did baseline to go back there and re -test. RICKNER: We may not have to go to Valdez for that information. JAY ROGSTEN (NOAH) introduced himself: Will be replacing someone rotating out. JAY WELLS (NATIONAL PARKS) gave a vessel report on picking up of birds and otters. RICKNER: First Katmai two-vessel cleanup team began yesterday with 25 to 30 folks. Second three-vessel fleet going over tomorrow to start at Hallo Beach. Third two -boat team left to go also to Hallo Bay. Therefore, I have three cleanup teams in one area. The only priority list I have is six areas within the park boundary. What I need is interagency council to provide me with some guidelines on how priorities arrange with new impact of oil. The other one needs reevaluated because of recent impact. OCKEN: Yes, it looks like it needs to be a mechanical removal. RICKNER: We have a fourth vessel that should be ready by Saturday evening. WELLS: If you are going to use six priority list we gave you, you might call us and we can check it. RICKNER: May want to consider vessels on the Kodiak side. We will continue to get more vessels out there. We are still trying to work waste problem. The initial team that went to Katmai has just about maxed out. The problem has gone to Valdez, and we hope to have an answer. FREED: There are two large barges setting on Afognak Island that the Natives have offered to us. RICKNER: A barge we could put material in would be much preferable than storing it on top of a barge. BRODIE: The Coast Guard should have some inventory. SELBY: I thought the Coast Guard had DEC containers that could be put on vessels. RICKNER: The people I have talked to are considering many ways. I told them if we don't have an answer soon, we will have to shut down. FREED: The large containers Jerome is talking about are sitting six to ten miles out of town and could be brought in. SELBY: They are for the oil spill. Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 11, 1989 Page 4 03864 RICKNER: I will check into it. NICHOLSON: Also, a real stack of containers at SeaLand. RICKNER: We have considered those. BRODIE: We will try to have something on interagency priority list by the first of next week. RICKNER: We will work off priority list, and if we can have something by Saturday, we can start another project. BELLINGER: We can set a priority list very quickly. SELBY: On the boat going out Sunday, should it go to Kodiak Island or the park. BELLINGER: There is mousse at Seven Mile Beach. SELBY: Send the one Sunday there. RICKNER: I am looking for the list of priorities so the choice is yours. FREED to NICHOLSON: Do you think there is a more important area in Kodiak than Seven Mile? NICHOLSON: Seven Mile Beach might make more sense to starting in Raspberry. We need to'be in Raspberry tonight and start picking it up. RICKNER: I will check with my boat dispatcher on how we are corralling oil so maybe we can get Corps of Engineers dredge to start picking it up. OCKEN: I feel Seven Mile Beach might be hard to clean up. SELBY: Let's work on this tomorrow and decide. DISCUSSION RESULTS: THE INTERAGENCY IS TO MEET TOMORROW MORNING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK TO ESTABLISH PRIORITIES AND NOT PUT IT OFF. IT WILL GIVE MORE INFORMATION TO THE TEN O'CLOCK MEETING. BRODIE: Since a lot of personnel have changed, if each agency can make a list, we will make a directory so we have an idea of who to ask for. SELBY: List to include institution and a name with it. Each day as people change, we can keep it up -dated. RICKNER: If problems with invoices or claims, if you can get information from individual and pass it along to me, I can pass it along to the proper person. We would like to get on those things quickly, and it will help me. FREED: Tom Nott from Valdez office was contacted, and he has offered to come Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 11, 1989 Page 5 03865 down and talk to the Council. Nothing has been arranged yet as he is waiting until guidelines and forms are brought up-to-date. DONNA (PARKS): SCAT team mentioned they aren't prepared for bears and want to get with Exxon hire and get some canisters for protection. Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 11, 1989 Page 6 03866