04/13/1989 Regular Meeting Part 1Oil Spill Response Team Meeting
April 13, 1989 @ 11:00 a.m.
SELBY: Port Lions is loading last of 1,200' boom and going on hook. They
are also building boom.
WADE: I haven't had a chance to do much with Ouzinkie. Fred Byars is out
flying.
SELBY: He is looking at what the setnetters in Olga Bay and Deadman Bay have
for materials. We are going to have them work with Fred. The Coast Guard
tried to get out with skimmer.
WADE: It cannot be towed in higher than 4' seas.
MADDEN: Buoy tender would come from Seward or Homer.
WADE: If the skimmer gets into rough seas, it will sink. The skipper on
skimmer will decide the roughness of the seas.
MADDEN: It is going to Kitoi? It would take about 5 hours to get to Kitoi.
BRODIE: Would it be best to outfit barge in Dog Bay and then it can be towed?
THOMAS: One barge is at Ketchikan (big one) an other at Cape St. Elias.
About a four day tow. Ketchikan barge couldn't leave until late tomorrow.
SELBY: Do we have any 55,000 gallon bladders?
MADDEN: No.
WADE: The one we have is 30,000 gallons.
BRODIE: Conceivable if seas come up, it is stuck unless can be towed.
WADE: It couldn't work in high seas either. Ideally it should be carried.
SELBY: If there is a sheen out there with golf ball sized oil, it should be
positioned to pick it up.
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WADE: Skimmer can't attack sheen, only absorbant pads.
SELBY: If skimmer could be put on barge and towed out that way, then we
could take barge out and put it to work. We could also move it to where the
oil is coming. No sense in us sitting on skimmer here if oil is drifting up
north. We want the thing working. If not the next day or so, put in where it
looks like the pattern of the oil is.
BRODIE: We have barge at dock that can be prepared. The barge has to be
pulled.
SELBY: The Kodiak King could possibly tow it.
BRODIE: We need to ask the Barb M what they can handle.
GOULD: What does it weigh?
WADE: 15 ton.
BRODIE: We would be prepared tomorrow to take barge and put skimmer on it.
SELBY to WADE: A concept we will turn over to you to work out.
MADDEN: I£ cut loose, buoy tender would take 12 to 15 hours to get here. The
staff the vessel carries would be dedicated to working the skimmer.
BRODIE: We are dedicating barge to skimmer with 3 or 4 people where buoy
tender has 55.
WADE: Buoy tender could back up skimmer here, take it to area you want it,
and go back to Homer. Then, if you needed it somewhere else, get buoy tender
back.
GOULD: Need to see if Barb M can tow it. We don't need buoy tender.
THOMAS: There would be more versatility with the barge.
BRODIE: Explore the options.
WADE: The skimmer can't work unless seas are calm.
SELBY: Barge needs to stay with skimmer so it can be deployed where needed.
If no oil comes, we can take skimmer to where oil is.
MADDEN: The same thing with buoy tender.
BRODIE: But, this would leave tender available for other things.
MADDEN: Buoy tender is at Kennedy Entrance. If the skimmer goes with buoy
tender, it would stay with tender.
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SELBY: Regardless of who has it, it needs to stay with skimmer.
WADE: What would be wrong with leaving it here until we know where to put
it?
GOULD: You are gaining flexibility if seas go up. If high pressure comes up
with 35' seas, the barge could not be towed.
THOMAS: You are best to get skimmer deployed.
MADDEN: You need to look and see if barge is equipped to carry skimmer.
SELBY: Lt. Madden and Jim Wade to pursue it.
RAY BANE: We have identified sites. My concern is that a lot oil will end
up along coastline opposite Kodiak. I am wondering how I can fit in to your
priority list and there is a maximum of 14 hours to get there. Will it be a
priority of the Borough to address the Katmai Coast? When will I be able to
get response that will be able to address this.
GOULD: (Showed him where mother ships are). They are only 35 miles from
coast.
BANE: We have some very specific places identified and need a total of
6,000' of boom. .
JEROME SELBY to BANE: Get that to Linda Freed so we can work with it. We
have a few days to see where the oil is coming and will be able to move boats
where needed.
BRODIE: We will move our boats to the side that looks like the sheen is
going.
RAY BANE: Okay, I just wanted to make sure I am clear.
KEVIN KEELER of EPA: I find a lack of information coming from Prince
William Sound. You are doing a great job and need more information.
SELBY: DEC is trying to get a look at the oil sheens. A vessel reported
that there are chips near Cordova that bounced off boat. There was no oil on
the boat.
WADE: From what I understand, it is a waxy material.
SELBY: The chips made noises as they hit the boat. Now we are starting to
get information as to what we may be working with.
THOMAS: I have talked to my people about that boom people are making up at
Base, and they said "go for it". I do have some things I need to pass on to
those people. I am working on figuring out what my people want, and then send
some out to them.
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WADE:
GOULD:
THOMAS:
We need to find out if it works.
We will get it tried out.
I may have a new source of boom material.
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