08/03/1989 Regular MeetingIda
EMERGENCY SERVICES COUNCIL
INTER AGENCY MEETING
EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1989
Meeting started at 5:05 p.m.
LARRY NICHOLSON (ADF&G) - Chignik has been changing on an
hourly basis. We are getting 5 test boats ready to go today.
John Peavy is in Chignik now. He is trying to get these
vessels a signed contract and get them going today. The report
given at the last meeting on the suspected oil in the lagoon
was just mud. We are still going to try and get those outlying
areas open if possible. There was fresh oil just outside the
lagoon last night. There have been no major improvements
around the island. We are still hoping for a Coho fishery. We
will continue to do test fishing until September. We should
get 2.5 million or above in the Kitoi Bay fishery. On the
issue of inspections I want everyone to know that I feel very
strongly that a member of ADF&G should be in every inspection.
DICK HENSEL (ADF&G) - It looks as if they are making a space
available for an ADF&G person.
BOB SCRUGGS (USCG) - The commander has no problem with having
an ADF&G person on board.
JOHN HOPKINS (DEC) - First to answer Waynes question: If you
took rock and gravel and burned it, would an extra permit be
needed? The only thing that would be left after burning it at
those temperatures would be carbon. There is already a burning
permit in the Borough. I think that this issue may very well
be covered in your permit. I would encourage you two to get
together and
review the Borough permit. For your second question, I had to
call to get an answer and will have one in about a half an
hour.
WAYNE PURDOM (EXXON) - At over 1500 degrees, carbon would not
even be left.
SCRUGGS - Commander McGuirre and Smith are attending a meeting
in Old Harbor and could not attend tonights meeting here. I
have one question about the set netters and the village areas
about sign offs, there was a question about signing them off
too quickly. All sign offs in the K6 and K7 area will be done
by Commander McGuirre or Commander Smith.
HOPKINS - We are still running crews around the beaches. The
newest thing is we are putting together a list of areas that we
are most concerned about. A copy of this list was given to
NOAA and the Coast Guard.
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HENSEL - The bad weather yesterday caused us not to be able to
do much. We did spend some time working on with the shoreline
committee. We need more information on some areas. We are
looking to dispatch a crew to look at Sturgeon Lagoon and Noisy
Island, to make better sense out of some of these priorities.
We will be going to Tagidik tomorrow.
DAVE MCMAHAN (Archeologist) - SCAT is being real responsive.
There are some archeological sites that have damage. If we
find a person that is responsible for this there could be
criminal charges filed.
MIKE GOODWIN (STATE PARKS) - The bioremediation techniques are
to be discussed in the ISCC Committee, for the Shuyak area.
This method has been used in the Valdez, Prince William Sound,
and Homer area.
PURDOM - The bioremediation should be moving here quickly. I
have received some literature on this method and basicly it is
a fertilization technique that supports biological activity.
GOODWIN - We should defiantly get ADF&G involved as far as the
biological impacts. We need to take a look and see if we could
use this method.
PURDOM - Most low energy beaches are clean. The high energy
places wouldn't hold fertilizer. To get the fertilizer on the
beaches, you would broadcast it and mix it in on the high
impact beaches. My understanding is that we don't have to
worry about this stuff because it is not poison. There is also
a liquid form of this that could be used.
JERRY HAMMOND (NATIONAL PARKS) - They are concerned with the
"Inapaul" substance. It is in the fertilizer and is toxic. On
the surface we are not that excited about this method.
JEROME SELBY (BOROUGH MAYOR) - Lets let the shoreline committee
look at this.
PURDOM - They are currently testing this stuff in Prince
William Sound. They are supposed to have a 14 day testing
period, but they are going full boar on this.
JAY BELLINGER (FISH AND WILDLIFE) - The birds are still dying.
He has been busy with the archeological problem. The illegal
camp has been handled. There have been more complaints about
the low flying aircraft. He is going to require that the
people complaining put their complaints in writing. Bird
rescue boats should be getting the birds that are in the tide
rips. Maybe this way we can get them before they die. The
bird totals should be going down, but they are going up again.
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Maybe getting the birds while they are in the tide rips can
help lower these numbers.
HAMMOND - People haven't been working much on the peninsula
because of the bad weather. The crews have headed back to the
Katmai and Cape Douglas area. He wants the agencies to know
that the National Parks people would like to be involved in the
beach sign off.
PURDOM - Stations 1, 2, and 3 are at Cape Douglas, 4 and 12 are
in Foul Bay, 5
and 8 are working in Puale Bay, 6 and 13 are in Katmai, teams 7
and is in the Foul Bay area, team 9 and 10 are on Shuyak
Island, with team 10 doing the warm water wash. The last
report said that the warm water wash was going slow. Team 11
is doing sign of work. The road crew is down to about 35
people. We have 60 people in the Katmai area. Team 18 on a
vessel and will be moving as soon as they get a bear guard.
There will be one additional team of 20 people joining teams 5
and 8. The village teams are being sized down a little so that
the people can get ready for winter. During this 5 day off
period for the setnetters, we will be doing some beach
inspections with the SCAT team. We are working to get a better
site for the incinerator. We still have a problem in the Olga
Bay area with the boat washing station. The people there don't
want it in the area. We are going to just put the center on
stand by somewhere and use it on an as needed bases. We are
going to have 10 bird boats now. The otter boat may be
quitting. We are just about to complete negotiants on the boat
contracts.
SELBY - What about the cannery workers checks?
PURDOM - I'll have to get you some information on that later.
SELBY - Are you using some setnetters on Chief Point and
Harvester Island?
PURDOM - Yes at both those places.
JACK RICKNER (EXXON) - They have made it to Puale and have made
a lot of progress. By tomorrow they should be done. I just
came back from the Katmai Beach area. They should be done
there in 2 to 3 days.
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