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1989-06-16 Regular MeetingKodiak Emergency Services Council June 16, 1989 @ 5:00 p.m. Kodiak, Alaska 99615 EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL COLLEEN BURGH (DEC): I have a brief overflight summary. Seven boats including two barges at Port Bailey, six boats and six workers on shoreline at Chief Point, boat and boat deploying boom at Larsen Bay, six workers and bags at Karluk, booms at Sturgeon, two boats entering Cannery and at anchor, and Hallo Bay had bags on shore but no workers. Beach survey team still out. . TOM CALLAHAN (NOAA): The Shoreline Committee met and talked about how we would address things with the Coast Guard and keep data flowing. We have a form that can be used to document oil being seen. JACK RICKNER (EXXON): I have not seen priority list yet. JAY BELLINGER (KODIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE): We had a total review of sea otter program by Jack Ames. Looks like we will drop back to two otter catcher boats. Still slick showing up in areas where there are otters and in the kelp patches. LARRY NICHOLSON (ADF&G): Things look good in Alitak and Deadman area. We will make an announcement tonight at 6 o'clock on first fishery --Frazier setnet fishery only in Wide Plains area. We will open at 6:00 a.m. Monday morning and go for 15 hours. There will be a break at 3:00 p.m. for an assessment and announcement to fleet on extending fishery. Our vessels and helicopters will be stationed there. If we stay free of oil, we may go into a long extension. BOB BRODIE (CITY OF KODIAK MAYOR): How is surveillance in other areas? WAYNE DOLEZAL (ADF&G): Mousse at Kalsin and in the Buskin mouth. GARY PATRAI: Went to beach one mile from Asmas Point. Worst we have seen all day --1/4" to 5" in diameter balls and a dead otter we brought in. Landed at Spruce Island at southwest point. One of crews from Ouzinkie working south side. We didn't see any mousse on either beach. They said it is coming in on high tide. Pineapple Cove had 20 people there with lots of bags. Mousse balls and patties on tidelines. At Litnik and Afognak, we found one mousse patty. Most of the stuff we are finding is mixing with needles and feathers. In tidelines with vegetation, you could walk and find mousse balls every couple of inches. Basically found it on every beach we landed on. Kodiak Emergency Services Council - 6/16/89 Page 1 04051 LINDA FREED (ACTING KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH MAYOR): I got a report of oil at beach at VFW site. Also, oil on beach at Ram Site but appeared there was cleanup crew there. I think you would also want to check Pillar Creek beach. DOLEZAL: I was contacted by Exxon to mention they want to go to Tagidik. There are biological concerns there. We are requesting a SCAT team to go down to identify archeological area they will note and document. There will be a permit required from Fish & Game for there. They are tentatively slated for Monday and Tuesday next week. RICKNER: We have 176 people in Veco beach cleaning -8 teams. Six village teams of 130 people. Road system strike team is 20-30 people on various days. We are looking at about 9 folks to go to Tagidik-7 workers, 1 EMT, and 1 cook. I have not received a recent update on setnetters. We direct calls to Steve Lawson, who is organizing that effort and making sure people know what they will be doing, safety, etc. Total of about 376 people. To date, my records indicate we have cleaned about 76 miles. The number of bagged material is growing --about 70,000 bags of material now. We have about 125-30 vessels and still adding. We are continuing to go up in efforts of beach cleaning crews. Expect two vessels to come on line shortly. We have somewhere around 10 miles of boom and probably that is underestimated. We are continuing to increase and we do appreciate the priorities on sites we need to focus our efforts on that was in the Coast Guard report of yesterday. I think it will be workable. It is slow and frustrating at times but moving forward. BURGH: What is your ultimate plan for disposal? RICKNER: We are moving material to barges, and it is being shipped to Seward. WAYNE PURDOM (EXXON): We are looking at incineration in this area or the Alaska coast with refuse or ashes being trucked to lower 48. BURGH: Has 70,000 bags left Kodiak area? PURDOM: Yes, they are being staged in Homer. I think one incinerator is working in the Valdez area. RICKNER: The last report was the skimmer is working in Ouzinkie area. I haven't had a report as to how much it has picked up. FREED: Last Wednesday we issued a stop work order to Norcon. They were pouring concrete for storage site. They were told to get permits. They poured 130 yards on Wednesday before we stopped them. We told them to find another location and gave them a map of area zoned properly and names of property owners. We were contacted today by Norcon and they came in and asked for permit on exactly same piece of property. They were denied and they wanted it in writing. They felt it was our problem. We would also like to see them contact DEC. I am not sure where they stand right now. I was hoping they would get back to us with permits for other zones. I talked to a man today named John Tower. Two weeks ago I talked with Lidell. I wanted you aware of it. We will expedite permits but not allow them to violate Borough permits. RICKNER: That is the problem we have with people we have contracted to do the Kodiak Emergency Services Council - 6/16/89 Page 2 04052 work. So, it's our problem. BRODIE: Seward told us they had the exact problem with Veco and Norcon. RICKNER: We will look into permitting ourselves rather than rely on them. I would like to talk to you tomorrow about some names of people to speak with. BURGH: DEC doesn't have to issue permit. Our bottom line is structure so it doesn't leak out. FREED: I mentioned to Jim Wade (Exxon) to please check with us to get it through the system. PURDOM: It does look like the payment problems that Veco had are starting to get resolved. In the last two days, we have seen significant payments come into this community. RICKNER: Some time ago we were told 300' of geotextile was left, and the inventory shows there are 99 rolls at 1,000' a roll. FREED: Bud Cassidy is doing that for the Borough and says he has it.resolved. You could work through him. COMMANDER RICHARD MEYER (USCG): I am really impressed with cooperation. Everyone seems to be working together and not arguing. I sat all afternoon with ISCC and very productive meeting. We are pursuing in detail Type A work order. The results of not using it has caused problems with teams going on to beaches where there were historical artifacts. Just as much damage can be done by just putting people on that beach. We want to get oil off as quickly as possible before it hardens. Road system crews operating in two areas and not finding very much oil. Some major cleanups are finding lots of oil and it keeps coming back. At Marmot Bay, report of fishing vessel that went through 1/2 mile by 2 mile long patch in north end of Kodiak Island. Did overflight. I don't know results, but if it does discover mousse, our intention is to have Exxon get skimmer out. Commander Balunis left and is carrying your things back to report you wanted him to. We will try to look at need if clean up A or B by survey of areas so we can justify bring equipment in. BURGH: On any of these sections of shoreline that are guaranteed to get reoiled, is there any way of prevention. RICKNER: Around Shuyak we have tried that to a limited extent. I don't think we have done it in a large area. Part of problem is you hate to leave them not tended. BURGH: There may be ways of doing it be a skeleton crew and not having to send a crew back. Kodiak Emergency Services Council - 6/16/89 Page 3 0405.)