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08/10/1989 Regular MeetingKodiak Emergency Services Council August 10, 1989 @ 5:00 p.m. Kodiak, Alaska EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL Present: Jerome Selby, Commander Jim Madden, Larry Nicholson, Jim Wade, Wayne Purdom, Jerry Hammond, Wayne Coleman, Arnie Shryock, John Hopkins, Dick Hensel, Jim Sellers, Bob Brodie, Jay Bellinger, Ken Middleton, Matt Miller, and Donna Smith. F�- DICK HENSEL ( C): I am wondering if we need to keep meeting at the same level of intensity. JEROME SELBY (KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH MAYOR): Bob (Brodie) and I talked and thought to run this schedule through September 1. HENSEL: What has been the attendance at the public meetings? SELBY: Twenty to twenty-five people. JIM SELLERS (GOVERNOR'S OFFICE):. There are new faces, too. SELBY: Quite a few are listening on the radio. What are some other's thoughts? DISCUSSION on holding one public meeting a week and two multi -agency meetings a week. SELBY: Consider Monday and Friday evening meetings and Wednesday morning public meeting. Let me talk to Bob (Brodie). Maybe next week Tuesday and Friday at 10:00 a.m. and Monday and Thursday evening meetings and shifting after next week. SELLERS: I am suspicious about only one public meeting a week with Exxon pulling out. It will be one hell of a meeting. More DISCUSSION on when to draw the line and close the door. JERRY HAMMOND (NATIONAL PARKS): I don't care how many meetings, but I would like to see them structured more. Maybe we could get through the agency's meetings, then when questions are asked, they can be asked to the right agency. BOB BRODIE (CITY OF KODIAK MAYOR) arrived and Mayor Selby explained the discussion. BRODIE: It seems like the meetings we have here provide the opportunity to ask questions. SELBY: If everyone could structure the questions, the media also attend, then it would get the information out. U 03987 Kodiak Emergency Services Council 8/10/89 Page 1 DISCUSSION'about meeting agenda. BRODIE: I will try to keep the morning one on line and moving it along. DISCUSSION consensus is to have agency reports with audience comments at the end. Meetings are to be from 10:00 a.m. until noon. Next week the morning meetings will be on Tuesday and Friday and the evening meetings on Monday and Thursday. The week after, Wednesday morning will be the public meeting and the multi -agency meetings will Monday and Friday. HENSEL: I am referencing a report from Middleton. Number one importance from Anchorage office was with review of documents and chain -of -custody. Number two, on the ninth, Guerney and Hallibut Bays surveyed. Very little oiling. Some splatterings. Saw Sturgeon, Orsen, and Karluk and north to Uyak Bay with Coast Guard and checked on stream booms. Number three, we continue working on compiling complete logs of stream booms for removal. JOHN HOPKINS (ADEC): I understand the air burning permit is on its way --probably within next week. Hopefully you will see that before winter sets in. Did have an interesting statement that may be checked on. One of the people that lives in Karluk said he flew over a band of mousse off Cape Karluk that is about 50 feet wide and extends a couple of miles. It is in an area where we are getting mousse back in. It might be a good target for the seiner fleet. It does need to be confirmed. It was reported at 4:40 this afternoon by Mike, a resident of Karluk. WAYNE PURDOM (EXXON): We have had reports and an inspection team is out. If we see additional oiling, we will divert teams to that area. LARRY NICHOLSON (ADF&G): We know there is some in that area because we have had hits in that area. HOPKINS: Crews out but weather problems. Crew going to Cape ended up in Port Lions. We have been trying to get to Tugidak. A press flight also wants to get to Tugidak to look at the whales, but we haven't been successful getting close to Tugidak. SELBY: Have we picked up stuff reported there that needs to be picked up? PURDOM: It is scheduled to be picked up. OIL SPILL COMMISSION will be meeting tomorrow from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the school auditorium. NICHOLSON read report from test fish boat observations on 8/10/89 of the last two days. Report attached. SELBY to PURDOM: Can you get this information quickly to the seiners? 03988 Kodiak Emergency Services Council 8/10/89 Page 2 PURDOM: We already have. NICHOLSON: We submitted a letter to John Peavey regarding the need to remove 35 different booms by the 15th because they will start piling up with carcasses. The only exception would be with streams in the road system. We don't want fishermen walking through the stuff. There are seven or eight that crews will need to maintain. PURDOM: We intend to get with Parks and make sure what they want to take out. HENSEL: Is it possible to get from Exxon the exact location of those booms? DISCUSSION on locations. Exxon and Fish & Game have locations but feel there were private parties that put boom out that is not documented. SELBY to NICHOLSON: What streams, if any, are we going to leave boomed for winter? The concern is some streams have egg areas close enough that potentially could have it get far enough in stream to get on the eggs in those areas. NICHOLSON: I think it will be will not be effective when the winter comes. Yank them all out. HENSEL: If the winter is anything like last year, we are looking at ice build up. If booms are in, they will have to be monitored. DISCUSSION an adverse effects on living booms in. NICHOLSON gave a description about the Chignik fishery: The Chignik fishery went very well. HAMMOND: I want to thank the Coast Guard because they found one of our lost vessels this morning. HAMMOND read report of where the boats are: We have divided ours into three groups. They are picking up from very small spills and covering a lot of beach. Forty-two miles out of 375 miles of beach has been treated on Katmai. Sixteen of 68 at Aniachak. JAY BELLINGER (KODIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE): I have been attending meetings in Anchorage. Interesting thing today --we were checking beach in Hoof Point and August Aga came in with 25 or so dead birds that were fresh. They will go to the lab right away. The stressed birds we have been sending to Seward have died, and they find it's oil related. DISCUSSION an what the oil related problems could be. BELLINGER gave report on beaches he saw today. He didn't see much oiling. It looks like not everywhere is getting hit. Kodiak Emergency Services Council 8/10/89 Page 3 03989 PURDOM gave the team locations: We have surveyed warm water washing. We are working at lining up an alternate with high reliability and more gallons to apply. Coming down from Valdez is a bio video tape, and I will show it to you. SELBY: Show it at the shoreline committee meeting on Saturday morning. PURDOM: A Peregrine Falcon team will be in at the Command Center. Feel free to drop by and talk with them. We are starting to remove boom from list that National Parks gave us. BELLINGER indicated they had already talked with him. PURDOM to SELBY: We are working on letter to you. SELBY: What are your plans as far as leaving boom here? PURDOM: Will be part of my response in letter to you. Regarding schedule, we are doing as well or better than. We will be making a sweep in the areas mentioned and sweep on East side of Kodiak. HOPKINS: On the small Island with standing oil... PURDOM: We have tried and been blown off. HAMMOND: You can't work that Island when the weather is bad. COMMANDER JIM MADDEN (USCG): Two more congressional delegations coming in. One tomorrow and one Monday. SELBY: Anything on the geotextile? PURDOM: No feedback on the geotextile. It is my understanding (Admiral) Robbins will be going through the chain. Kodiak Emergency Services Council 8/10/89 03 990 Page 4 KODIAK TEST FISH BOAT OBSERVATIONS FOR B-10 AUGUST EAST AFOGNAK WATERS Light to heavy impact of silver and light sheens with occasional mousse - this includes Perenosa Bay, Izhut Bay, Tonki Bay, Discoverer Bay. WEST AFOGNAK WATERS From Raspberry Cape to Shuyak Strait - light to moderate impact of sheens with occasional old mousse. Most of the mousse observed was mixed with organics and contained varying amounts of gravel indicating that it previously had contact with a beach. KODIAK ISLAND, EASTSIDE Ugak Bay Area: light impact of light sheen with occasional fresh mousse, 2-4" in diameter, and yesterday the test boat Gold Nugget reported a band of very light sheen with 1-5" diameter mousse that extended from Gull Lagoon south to Dangerous Cape. Kiliuda Bay: 1/2 mi south of Dangerous Cape was a tide streak containing mousse, dead birds, vegetation, and scattered feathers, most of the mousse was 1-8" diameter, the streak extended 1 mile. The tide streak averaged 10-28 pieces of mousse every ten yards. South of Old Harbor, including south end of Sitkalidak Island: Most current reports indicate very light to light impact of silver sheen, with no mousse being observed. KODIAK ISLAND - WEST SIDE Terror Bay: moderate impact of light sheen Packers Spit, including South Arm: light to moderate impact of light and silver sheens Uganik Bay: outer capes between Miners and Cape Kuliuk showed light to moderate impact of very light to silver sheens with 2-4" diameter mousse present at Cape Ugat and Cape Kuliuk. Uyak Bay: Inner Uyak Bay area had light to heavy impact of silver sheen, and yesterday at Parks Cannery there was a band of light and silver sheen yesterday which extended 10 miles in the West Amook Island passages. Rocky Point, Cape Karluk area: has light impact of silver sheen with frequent mousse balls up t- 2" diameter off Rocky Point. Cape Karluk to Cape Ikolik: had very light to light impact of sheens with some mousse present at Cape Ikolik and Bear Rocks. �' �� 03991 " Red River south t Moe Alitak: very light tc oderate impacts of light and very light zheens. The beach surveys .ndicate fresh mousse was present in infrequent amounts at the current tide lines near Red River Cape Alitak to Cabe Trinity, incluoing inner Alitak bay: light imba= of sheens reported at Cape Alitak, Tanner read, Moser Ray, Fox Islanc, Cape Hepburn, Portage Ray, and a 300 ya. beach c mi south of Hawk. Rluf had fresh and old mousse up to 10" diameter, :heavily oiled dead bird, and 1 heavily oiled monofiloment ciilnet at nA upper tide line. MAINLAND DISTRICT North Mainlanc: lignt to moderate sheens reported from Swikshak to Kaflia Ray, with mousse reported at Hallo Ra_v, and Cape Nukshak. South Mainland, Dakavak. to Kilokak Rocks: light to moderate impact of sheens with infrequent amounts of mousse averaging less than 1" diameter. 03992