06/08/1989 Regular MeetingKodiak Emergency Services Council
June 8, 1989 @ 5:00 p.m.
Kodiak, Alaska
EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL
STEVE HANJWICH (USCG): Admiral Robbins is coming into Kodiak tomorrow. He may
be attending the five o'clock meeting. Will be with us over the weekend, and
he is coming down with a contingency from Exxon and representative from NOAA
and possibly someone from ADEC. He is going to overfly the scene all day
Saturday --Cape Chiniak on Peninsula, Shuyak Island and down along west side of
Island, Karluk, Larsen Bay, etc. Afterwards, he had hoped to have a post
survey meeting on Sunday at nine o'clock with agencies. If we could get the
room we usually use (Assembly Chambers), that would be best. I will pass the
word tomorrow so all agencies are aware. I spoke with Exxon today to get a
better feel where the teams are deployed and where they feel new teams should
be placed. Right now, we have three teams at Cape Chiniak and one at Sturgeon
River (20+ man team). The fifth team team is in Shuyak. Villagers- indicated
they wanted to clean Karluk themselves and weren't receptive to cleanup crew.
Sixth team first went to Seal Bay and Peranosa Bay. They are working there a
short time and then go to Larsen Bay. Jack Rickner (Exxon) was going to talk
with Joe Lanos to indicate to them that we had identified that area for
priority cleanup and hope they could work somewhat together. Newest focus is
to deploy as many resources as we could in this area as it is time sensitive
because of the salmon opening. If they object having Exxon clean there, I
don't know what we will do. We should indicate to villages that it's time
sensitive. Team seven (2 vessels) is going to be heading out the 9th or 10th
to somewhere in this vicinity also. Three more teams coming on the 12th, 15th,
and 18th (tentative dates). Cleanup is progressing well over in Cape Chiniak.
The crew has been active over there and are picking up quite a bit of oil. In
some instances, they have concurrence to go deeper. We are focusing some
attention on Uganik Bay.
GARY OTT (NOAA) handed out draft: Need permission of Interagency Shoreline
Committee before I give it officially to you. We did say we would give you a
quality map.
HANOWICH: Team six will stay in Peranosa and Seal Bay, not what I said
earlier. Team seven is going to Larsen Bay.
ARNIE SITYROCK (DEC): Is it possible to get a copy of deployment so we can
track what is happening. It will give our monitoring surveillance team some
idea of what is happening.
OTT: Interagency Shoreline Committee met and these are the things they wanted
me to say. READ DRAFT WITH COMMENTS.
DISCUSSION ON SHORELINE CLEANUP PRIORITIES BY KODIAK INTERAGENCY SHORELINE
CLEANUP COMMITTEE TO LT. HANEWICH, SUPERVISIOR KODIAK INCIDENT COMMAND POST.
DISCUSSION OF BOUNTY BAG PROGRAM ON THE ROAD SYSTEM AND AREAS THAT CAN BE
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REACHED BY SKIFF.
GIL BLINN (PARKS): Special use permits were issued for Sukoi and Kukak Bay oil
caches so helicopters can be used.
SITYROCK: Program DEC, F&G, and setnetters is testing is the typar that may
work well for monitoring movements of oil. 150' panels with 10' rope on each
line. This is not intended to boom oil, just monitor and hopefully will absorb
some sheen. The Park Service has agreed to run three sets and Fish & Game will
be deploying some and setnetters will be deploying some. Hopefully we will get
enough information by salmon season to make some decisions.
GARY BURKE (FISH & WILDLIFE): Most of our activity has been talking to Fish
and Wildlife boats that need some direction. We had a number of calls that
dead birds had been picked up and what do people do with them. CBS News and
the 48 Hours program has phoned again.
MIKE GOODWIN (PARKS) discussed draft regarding the land status areas: Will
Native Corporations be involved as sign -offs in cleanup taking place on their
lands?
HERMAN BUEKER (CITY OF KODIAK): It's the Committee's desire that they be.
SITYROCK: Coast Guard sign -off is getting to be close to being final. There is
not a spot for land -owner sign -off. It will be DEC's policy to include them on
theirs.
DISCUSSION ON COAST GUARD'S SIGN -OFF POLICY DRAFT.
BUEKER: Will get a map of Native Association lands.
DISCUSSION ON WHICH ARE STATE-OWNED AND NATIVE -OWNED LANDS.
WAYNE DOLEZAL (FISH & GAME): We made it out to Malina Bay and found some
moderately hit areas there.
SHRYOCK: Was it further into bay?
DOLEZAL: Described as southeast head of bay.
BUEKER: We heard there is scatterings of mousse on south side of Woody Island.
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MATT FISER4N (KMKT RADIO STATION): Southwest to southeast on shore of Woody
Island. A man brought in a half -gallon bucket that took him 1/2 hour to fill.
This guy works for Veco. It is reported on Long Island, Crooked, Cliff Point,
and Monashka Bay and is scatterings of mousse and tar balls. When the guy did
a show and tell routine, he got back that from Veco--but I am not sure it was
them --that it must have been Glacier Bay spill from two years ago.
BUEKER: If it is over here, it would be a good bounty pickup if Exxon would go
with it.
BILL BURKE (USCG): Personally, I see a lot of potential for injury in that
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program.
BUEKER: We aren't pushing program, just suggesting it if they want to initiate
it.
DISCUSSION ON LIABILITY OF BOUNTY BAG PICKUP.
SITYROCK: If Exxon provides a service of purchasing bags of oil, we could
restrict it to certain areas that we don't feel are particularly sensitive.
DOLEZAL: They didn't pay in Homer because people had kelp so it took the wind
of its sails.
DISCUSSION ON BOUNTY OF RISKS, PROTECTING, AND WHAT COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED.
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