02/17/1990 Regular MeetingKodiak Emergency Services Council
February 17,1990 @ 4:30 p.m.
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
BOB BRODIE, City of Kodiak Mayor opened the meeting and made the
introductions.
ADMIRAL CIANGACLINI spoke about what the Coast Guard had been
doing to evaluate the beaches over the past winter months. He
had intended to also include fly -overs of the beaches while in
Kodiak but was unable to do so because of the weather. He has
seen many photoes, schematics, has had many briefings on the
condition of the beaches as well as updates from many of the
various agencies involved. He made it clear that he is very
interested in speaking with all concerned parties and was at the
disposal of all the agencies to field any questions they might
have.
ADMIRAL CIANGACLINI made note that he relieved Admiral Robbins as
of 9/30/89 and since that time has visited different sites to see
how the impacted areas have reacted to the weather since the
Spill.
ADMIRAL CIANGACLINI went with Dave Kennedy from NOAA to Nova
Scotia to visit the site of an oil spill which took place about
19 years ago and was about a 1,000,000 million gallon spill.
They were also accompanied by scientist John VanDermuelen. Five
to 6 years later ecology had returned to the beaches. High
energy areas were very clean. The low energy areas had "very
hard" oil deposits on the cliffs and the closer you got to the
water, the softer the oil became; these type of beaches cannot be
left alone. Steve Provant, Dave Kennedy and the Admiral went to
the site of the AmocoCadiz spill from 11 years ago in the NW part
of France where 58,000,000 million gallons of oil were spilled.
They also toured the area in Washington where the Nestucca barge
spilled about 250,000 gallons of crude. Very little oil was
left.
BY MARCH 15, Exxon should have their general workplan for clean
up available to the Admiral.
MARCH 25 will be the Survival training for the Assessment teams
who will go to nine pre -selected (9) shorelines. There will be 6
people to a team; these people will be Coast Guard, Exxon, ADEC,
a biologist, a geomaphalogist and a member of the Emergency
Service Council.
MARCH 26, 27 will be used to determine what the criteria will be
to assess what the "team" will do.
MARCH 28 TO APRIL 30 will be time spent walking the beaches and
doing the surveys of the areas. This includes the 140 miles of
currently identified beaches in he Gulf of Alaska plus any other
beaches in Kodiak identified by the Kodiak ESC.
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MAY 1 wi.7_3 t- =tar.ting date for the clean up to start and the
areas will h<, det,rmined by the assessment team during March and
April; there will be a reduced work force this year.
U.S.FISH & WII,D'•.TFE is sending a team out to check the herring
run and to clean the area if possible before fishing starts.
U.S.FISH & WILDLIFE wants only MINIMUM impact on fishing,
pupping, eagle nesting, etc.
TYPE A clean tip will be used. There is to be no excavating
done. Previous checks on the sub -surface show that in the high
energy areas there was a 60-80% reduction of oil due to the
cleaning action of winter storms. Type A clean up means the use
of shovels, picks, hoes, etc. No high pressure water system will
be used.
EXXON has hired a firm called Woodward & CLyde to do schematics.
ADMIRAL CIANGACLINI has information that shows bio -remediation
WORKS. It is a good technique to assist surface cleaning.
Inypol was used as one of the ingredients. BIO -REMEDIATION will
be an OPTION! IT WILL NOT BE DONE IF IT'S DETERMINED BY THE
GROUP IN CHARGE THAT THEY DO NOT WANT IT. The study showed that
bio -remediation cleaned from about 15 centimeters down to a depth
of about 12" in some instances.
The Coast Guard will furnish us with their information on the
"bio" study and the current status of the Barren Islands insofar
as the oil impact is concerned.
DEC says more studies will have to be done on wildlife before
"bio" is done and if more oil is coming out then the beach will
have to be re-evaluated.
DNR'S Mike Goodwin wanted to know what happened to the samples
that the Coast Guard was to have analyzed. The Admiral will find
out the status of the samples and get back to DNR with this
information as soon as possible. He will try to get this
information to Wayne Coleman the week of 2/19 as Wayne will be in
Anchorage.
JAY BELLINGER from U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE advised that their vessel
is out taking samples from the West side of the island; they have
been taking data for the past 9 years, primarily by the same
people.
BILL MILLER from NATIONAL PARKS expressed his pleasure with the
Coast Guard for making sure that a Land Manager would be a part
of the assessment team. He was also pleased that the Land
Manager's have the right to refuse bio -remediation if they don't
deem it necessary.
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ADMIRAL CIANGACLINI has recruited a Mr. Bernard Fichaut (sp) from
France to give his views on any MAJOR disagreement on cleanup.
He will not be asked to settle the disagreement. He is
considered by all to be the oil spill expert and his opinion will
be highly recommended in the event of a disagreement.
JOHN PEAVEY from EXXON reported that he gets updates every 2
weeks from the villages on the oil spill conditions as well as
pictures, samples, etc. He says the villages are doing a
wonderful job. Mr. Peavey will get the information from the
villages to the KISCC.
No incinerator will be used; all waste will go to Oregon.
PHASE I will be any beach assessed to be low energy, high impact
and any areas where there will be salmon fry, pupping,
recreational and subsistance use.
PHASE II will be any other areas that are accessible but are not
needed immediately for the above reasons.
ADMIRAL CIANGACLINI was asked "Is there ever going to be a Final
of Final" inspection? He said this was a good question and would
get an answer to it.
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