06/12/1989 Regular MeetingKodiak Emergency Services Council
June 12, 1989 @ 5:00 p.m.
Kodiak, Alaska
EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL
LT. STEVE HANEWICH (USCG): No report of oil at the Buskin River, but we have
been concentrating on looking. We were questioned if we would deploy boom in
that area and my answer is no. We have a lot of boom in Kodiak ready to go.
We made arrangements to put 1,000' on beach --not in water. It will be ready to
go, and we will continue to survey that area. As Exxon indicated, there are
newly implemented cleanup crews working at Mission Beach and Fossil Beach.
JEROME SELBY (KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH MAYOR): I had a report of oil at Monashka
Bay.
JACK RICKNER (EXXON): We have one crew working there. They are not plugged
into the above locations; they can be moved.
SELBY: I also heard there is some at Chiniak--Little Navy.
HANEWICH: We are receiving reports of oil at Shuyak, and we have confirmed a
fair amount of oil in Raspberry Straits. We are getting together with Exxon to
deploy an eighth crew and will identify where when it is ready. Ishut Bay is
having some problems.
SELBY: What is the possibility of two or three more skimmers to go to Uyak,
Raspberry/Kupreanof, and Shuyak?
RICKNER: I have requested three.
SELBY: They seem to be three areas that have gotten a bit of mousse.
HANEWICH: Had a technician to work on the Barb M, and one to look at Tugidik.
SELBY: How are radios working for everyone?
RICKNER: I understand we had agencys' radios installed yesterday.
DISCUSSION ON RADIOS.
SELBY: At the 9 o'clock meeting, let's figure out how to make it work for
everybody.
WAYNE PURDOM (EXXON): Shuyak has patches of mousse on beaches and suspended
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mousse in water. Back in the bay is oil that probably had been up on the
rocks.
MIKE GOODWIN (PARKS): I pulled two of my workers off Shuyak that had been
there for over a month, so there is only one there now. At the end of the
week, I will have five or six newly trained people going out.
JERRY HAMMOND (NATIONAL PARKS): Crews at Hallo Bay. Flight did go to south
end and should be back at 6 o'clock. Flight north end and saw some light
oilings up around the top of Katmai National Park.
GARY OTT (NOAH): A discussion with the SCAT team on the codes and where to
send them has been scheduled for tomorrow. We are preparing a technical paper
on shredding contaminated fish. The problems related have policy issues asking
for re-evaluating of permit, and we can't answer that. But, should have
technicalities.
SELBY: Do you know when the Admiral is going to deal with disposal issue?
HANEWICH: I will get on that tomorrow.
JAY BELLINGER (KODIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE): A live murra from Ouzinkie,
and a sick sea otter with pup from Afognak.
TIM LAV (DEC): Crews are still out in field. Beach crews and surveillance
crews out. We are trying to get geared up to answer question of grinding of
contaminated fish, which is actually out of our realm. On the health related
questions, we hope to have a sanitary person at the next meeting.
SELBY: Will they watch for other indications other than oil on halibut.
LAW: Yes.
RICKNER: Request from Old Harbor to increase Native beach cleaning crews, and
we have from ten to fifteen. Have gone from two 6 -man hit teams in area here
to five so there is a total of 30 people working road -accessed beaches. Have
started to get in some bag materials. Some of the things on line for a while
are beginning to reach us.
SELBY: Does that relieve some of the storage problem?
PURDOM: Some --temporarily. We will be generating more waste.
RICKNER: We are shipping some waste materials to Homer. We are getting
procedures where we can move it out and the containers come back. We do have a
ADEC monitoring boat that should be on line Wednesday after the halibut opening
(per Arnie Shryock's request). We are trying to get some skimmers back out
here as soon as we can.
SELBY: Preseason fishing agreement to be negotiated tomorrow?
PURDOM: Yes.
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SELBY: Geotextiles?
RICKNER: We went out to the Norcon warehouse, and we have a lot of gray
material already made into boom. I asked Arnie yesterday what he sees they
need. We have six 300' -bundles of gray textile net out there. As we need to
use it, we could take lead line off.
SELBY: Also, Wayne (Dolezal) of Fish & Game requested some. Would you tell
the crew out there. Where is the Norcon warehouse?
RICKNER: Near the Safeway store.
SELBY: We have a two-week reprieve at the hanger (USCG Base). You need to
talk to Teri Stone and get it dispatched out there. They figure that by
tomorrow they will be out at the base. So, you could get it trucked out there.
The advantage to the gray is that it can be monitored from the air because the
oil shows up clearly.
LARRY NICHOLSON (FISH & GAME): I will check on how much Wayne needs.
SELBY to LAW: I assume Arnie has given what he needs but will you check on
that?
SELBY: What is the update on the nets to Kodiak?
RICKNER: I don't know.
PURDOM: I don't know if they are here, but they are on the way.
NICHOLSON to WAYNE & JACK: Kathy Kinnear called and is concerned about the
lack of available boom on the fishing vessels. Is that true? The real problem
now is getting boom material into the community.
RICKNER: The amount of boom we carried indicates we have 39,500' of boom on
vessels that is not in the water. We have asked vessels to let us know when
they deploy boom. I hope communication is not breaking down. We have very
little in warehouse, but we have ordered additional boom. We have a lot of
absorbant boom at the Norcon warehouse we can use as a barrier. I understand
yesterday they loaded a lot on boats to go out.
HANEWICH: We need to take a tally and see what the boats have.
HANEWICH and RICKNER to ask Kathy to ask when she talks to the boats to find
out how much boom is on deck.
MARGARET ROBERTS: In regard to ill health effect, how many people do you know
of suffering ill health, and what can we do to check to see if it is healthy.
RICKNER: I know of one incident where a worker got his gloves near his face
and vomited, and we flew him in. He was check by physician and went back to
work the next day. Only one I am aware of.
SELBY: I heard one at English Bay had apparently gotten into an area where
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kelp was degrading causing methane gas. I have heard comments about the kelp
degrading that is oiled.
OTT: We have some strike team people looking at it in the hold of vessels.
There has, not been an increase in complaints to CDC to trigger an
investigation. The Department of Health for the State of Alaska would start
the investigation.
ROBERTS: I am hoping some cases can be followed through for the people out
there. (She asked about the Chief Point cleanup).
RICKNER: We have four teams working in addition to the Native teams. Ten
units of hot water are going to Chief Point. Bill Raney emphasized yesterday
that we will get beaches cleaned.
ROBERTS: Are dispersants being used around oil.
SELBY, HANEWICH, & RICKNER: Not to our knowledge.
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