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05/22/1989 Regular MeetingKodiak Emergency Services Council May 22, 1989 @ 5:00 p.m. Kodiak, Alaska EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL ARNIE SHRYOCK (DEC): I have suggested changes in the draft of the "Organization and Responsibility for Shoreline Treatment of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - Kodiak Area" to Wayne (Dolezal), which he has included in the draft. (Listed changes.) A food service person was killed today on the oil - spill clean up crew. Also, 100 people at Katmai with no port -a -potty. LINDA FREED (ACTING KIB MAYOR): How is temporary storage coming? SHRYOCK: My understanding is there is a barge at the Lash site. BOB BRODIE (CITY OF KODIAK MAYOR): Referring to a letter reviewed before on airplane flights near wildlife and sensitive areas. SHRYOCK: It's very difficult to do oil assessment work and watch. What I would like to see, if possible, is a spotter be made available by resource people. JAY BELLINGER (KODIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE): Our biologist said if beach assessment team are doing jobs like they should, most of the time they are below eagle nests. He has watched some nests where the choppers are below the nests and doesn't flush the eagles off the nests. It will be sightseers buzzing where they shouldn't be buzzing. GIL BLINN (PARKS): I think this idea was to take it out to local groups so they are aware of the wildlife. BRODIE: I think the agency flights are pretty much going to a specific spot. BELLINGER: Fixed wing doesn't bother them much. I am just talking about eagles, not sea birds. BRODIE signed letter without any further changes. SHRYOCK: Dave Parker will be filling in for me for a few days. We will try to make most of these meetings. We have asked Fish & Game to speak for us if we Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 22, 1989 Page 1 can't. BLINN: We got weathered out as far as aircraft. We still have cleanup boats at Katmai and Chiniak. We have a biologist ready to go as soon as weather changes. John Krushower is leaving, and Frank Betts is coming in. Ray Bane plans on coming in tomorrow for a couple of days. We found a bear Saturday. It showed it died of trauma by falling off a cliff --no apparent oil impact. It was a middle-aged male and apparently healthy except for being dead. On the one shot Friday, we haven't received results. MIKE GOODWIN (PARKS): Big Bay radio checks did not see any evidence of distressed whale. Still seems to be concept of what they are hearing at Big Bay and what I am hearing here. JACK RICKNER (EXXON): Early this morning, as a result of SCAT team, their assessment was that it wasn't critical in that area. I told them to attack northeast corner because of weather pattern. GOODWIN: Do you see that crew going to Big Bay? RICKNER: Without saying what that looks like, I hate to move them over. I hate to get in the mode of moving them just because of weather conditions. RICKNER and GOODWIN to talk about it later. LT. MADDEN (USCG): Coast Guard monitors going to Larsen Bay and Ouzinkie. We heard of mousse at Goloi Island and Volcanic Bay --about 30 miles north of Cold Bay. Nothing confirmed. BRODIE: How much suspended oil are you seeing in the water? MADDEN: Reporting some but it is breaking up more and more. At Kukuk Bay they are still corralling some. Essayons is on the way to Seward. Arctic Salver is on its way here. Sedge will remain on scene until Salver gets there. RICKNER: I talked to Kevin Bryce who is coordinating the two dredges here and in Homer, and Exxon had requested that the dredge be available until we get a barge to off-load. They are going back for a crew change and resupply, and then they will be back here to continue receiving the materials the beach cleaning crews are collecting. There is a barge suitable to take the materials the dredge has collected. The Essayons will be released, and we will have that vessel to continue receiving materials. All beach cleaning boats were holed up in Kukak Bay. On Arctic Salver is two five -wheelers that we hope will speed up beach cleaning. Was two LCN loaded on it, too. As soon as it gets here, we will have some new equipment. FREED: Out at Anton Larsen Bay, there is a large pile of oil collected debris --bags, snares, etc. I would like to see you get it out of there. It needs to be taken care of. Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 22, 1989 Page 2 nriQ3n RICKNER: I hadn't heard it, but I will check on it. FREED: Apparently -it came over from Ouzinkie and left at the boat launch. BRODIE: Do you have any more feedback on the helicopter request? RICKNER: All I got is the one aboard the Arctic Salver. BRODIE: Can we have a list of helicopters being used? RICKNER: 212, 206, and a single engine job. Those are the only copters I know of. We do have a Otter fixed wing. BRODIE: We mentioned to Nall today that we wanted two more twin -engine, and he said your air officer was coordinating. We are still pretty serious about getting adequate air transport across the Shelikof Straits and will continue to pursue it. We may call Valdez on that tomorrow. BELLINGER: A live sea otter was picked up at Larsen Bay and taken to Seward. Twenty live birds --14 to Seward, 3 escaped or were released and 1 gull still - here. 7,536 logged dead birds in Kodiak, 5 live ones in --one died and four to Seward, 34 dead sea otters logged -in in Kodiak, 2 live eagles that were sent to Anchorage --heard one we had sent this weekend died, 6 dead bald eagles logged -in in Kodiak. We handle everything south of the Barrens, Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak, and Tugidik. FREED: Is there still dead birds on boats at Katmai? BELLINGER: Yes. I just report what has been identified, tagged, and frozen. BRODIE: This otter center, is it any way serviceable? BELLINGER: It is ready, but the otters were plenty feisty to transport to Seward. This isn't a washing facility and so if they are in good shape, we send them out. BRODIE: I wonder about the cost effectiveness and the risk of the weather. I wonder if there is something we should pursue for here for a more effective otter cleanup. BALLINGER: If it looks like we need it. A guy is coming to Kodiak that has had a lot of experience, and I am going to have him look at crews here and see if we are doing it the way we should. We will get a review of our whole plan. I would say what we are doing is the way it should be done. ROY OVERSTREET (NOAA): This morning I went with DEC folks to Kuprianof Straits, and we surveyed the entire south shore and except for a couple of sites where there was little bit of oiled vegetation, there was essentially no oil. WAYNE DOLEZAL (FISH & GAME): We found stuff on beaches 12" deep on Raspberry Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 22, 1989 Page 3 nisdn on the south end. Didn't get much at Onion Bay, but south and east were fairly substantially hit. BRODIE: We talked to Nall and did impress helicopters and some resources for setnetters so they could do something if they wanted. We mentioned Veco to start being more civil to people and employees. Kodiak Emergency Services Council - May 22, 1989 Page 4 03841.