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1989-04-17 Regular MeetingOil Spill Management Council April 17, 1989 @ 6:00 p.m. Kodiak, Alaska BRODIE: Where is VECO--up to speed? WADE: Temporarily established at Westmark and are accepting applications. They do have control center. We will be meeting again in the morning. Phone # is 486-5712 Room 307 or VECO Control Room 237. BRODIE: Applications accepted by the Borough, are they prepared to take that list to go from it or start over? GOULD: I had Earl Smith give the list to Yvonne Zharoff. WADE: We will discuss it tomorrow. The only other people they have selected, we have asked them to. BRODIE: It is a question of the people, and has to be clarified. WADE: They do want those on the list to fill out an application. BRODIE: They could fill that application out if and when they are called in. Please clarify that in your report tomorrow, and it will ease people's minds. Have you given any more thought to mobile washdowns? WADE: Have asked for a mobile boat washing station. Will be working with the Coast Guard on need as things change. BRODIE: Also, if something can be established in another village. WADE: We are going to set up to start teams consisting of six people with a team leader to be prepared and on standby for areas that need immediate beach attention. JONES: Thought it best to get it started because the people will have to be found, trained, etc. If never used, fine, but if it does, they can be the nucleus of other teams. Oil Spill Management Council 1 4/17/89 @ 6:00 p.m. 03901 PAGE: Test drive them in Shuyak Island. We are sending a Coast Guard rep there tomorrow. We need to know what Valdez is doing. Will be our first really on -hands experience. GOULD to LYNETTE DEAN (DEC): Does that need to be approved by you? DEAN: I will check it out. PAGE: None in water there, it's on beach. SELBY: Did we get lab assessment? DEAN: No. BRODIE: Has anyone seen Dr. Mackie? WADE: He is not in Valdez. There's a vessel leaving Homer and will be working it's way down past Kodiak taking water quality samples. It will have a DEC rep and a contract Exxon laboratory firm on board. As far as beach samples, we will still work on getting in touch with Dr. Mackie. BRODIE: Have you given any more thoughts to setting up a testing station in Kodiak? We are thinking of fish products. Does it have to be three days of fish setting in hold before we get a report? After three days, the fish are no good. JONES: Water samples and beach would be handled by a consultant. We frankly don't know. SELBY: We don't care if its being done in other areas. We have to be somehow able to assure people it's safe. We need 100% absolute certain assurance to the public that no contaminated fish gets on shelves! It's our economy. PAGE: ADEC seems to make a more objective view. BRODIE: We are very sensitive. If product is brought into lab, and we wait three days for a report, the fish is no good. DEAN: ADEC has a branch ready to start up. BRODIE: Perhaps Exxon can provide DEC with funding to put on more people, since they will be spread thin. JONES: We have had discussion with Exxon about paying ADEC. BRODIE: We are supporting Exxon working with ASMI --the marketing organization. We want to continue to support your efforts. Where are you located now? Oil Spill Management Council 2 4/17/89 @ 6:00 m. 0390 JONES: 508B Marine Way (Brechan building above Litas) 486-6740 There are six Exxon employees, two Coast Guard, two ADEC, and one boat dispatcher. PAGE: We have state and federal rep and will be at all of these meetings. WADE: I appreciate the space you have provided us. SELBY to PAGE: Do we have any boom left? PAGE: Loaded five vessels today. Will have current list tomorrow of which equipment is on which vessel. We know the vessels and we know where they are. We have a good size fleet out there now. We had two flights today. Visibility not too good. No immediate close oil to US. It is in Chugach Island area about 30-40 miles away. Helicopter went along west side of Shelikof into Kamachat Bay. Did not see oil. They went on down from southwest side of Kenai Peninsula/English Say --light sheen. Straight back down past Barren Islands. They couldn't see from helicopter any indications of flowing oil. Ruff n' Ready gave same report. We hope to have, weather permitting, a Coast Guard rep to go on Island tomorrow to get first-hand feel for contamination. Three vessels in area to respond to it. C130 hugged shore of Kenai Peninsula, and they said concentrations of oil in Nuka Island. Seems to be moving westward but hugging shore. Good indication of no new oil coming out of Valdez. If wind comes north, it could come to Kodiak. Could move it through the Shelikof Straits. NE of Nuka, no oil. No new stuff trailing out of Valdez. Only stuff we have to deal with would be stuff already out. We are keeping eye on it. My plan with the Coast Guard flights is continue at west side of Shelikof and move up to south Kenai. The longer there, the better off we are. It will decrease in size over a period of time. I feel comfortable that we have a good fleet of vessels with equipment to take care of it at this stage of the game. SELBY: Any word on the skimmer? PAGE: I still heard the 19th. CAMERON MCKENZIE: On my flight, most of the oil is virtually north of Barren Islands. It seems moving along shore. Winds were S to SE. It would take a significant amount of wind to take it down here. I could not get along coastline because of weather conditions. Looked up Cook Inlet. In Kodiak area, did come back down Island and identified something. Mousse, not sheen. Too small to pick up on camera. I marked it for Coast Guard to look at. Also, noticed something at Cape Douglas. Did not look like aged mousse --small patch and very shiny. It's in one small bay on south side of tip of Cape Douglas. DEAN: Test kits that will be doing water monitoring will be here at 8:00 p.m. Oil Spill Management Council 3 4/17/89 @ 6:00 p.m. n9nAG+ FISH & WILDLIFE REP: The last I heard, the boat was going on Tonki Cape. Peggy tonight was going to tell them to broadcast in the blind. We have about four different radio checks going. Will work area where oil has been reported. DAVE DASH: We are set up at the Westmark. CORDELL RAY: (Introduced Dan Hanson). No reports from boats and too bad for flying. No oil has been confirmed other than headlands of Cape Douglas. Additional patches on beach just to the west of Sequoi Bay entrance. NOAA REP: In Prince William Sound, some of the oil has started to refloat off islands. Oil is probably 70% water. Most of later components will come now and those are not toxic. Won't be a threat to finfish. The impact in Kodiak will be a spattering of patches coming ashore. As time goes on, they will get smaller and smaller. PAGE: (Introduced Lt. Cdr. Ruben Arrendondo). Mr. Arrendondo will be working with Mr. Madden. I will be leaving tomorrow night to go back to Ketchikan. K.c%a RON KEN (ADEC REP): Request investigation of disposal of nets and contaminated fish. JONES: Judy Miedinger had contacted the village leaders, and I will do follow up phone calls. Oil Spill Management Council 4 4/17/89 @ 6:00 p.m. 03907