[StBernard] Revision: St. Bernard Parish Oil Spill Update as of 1400 6/27/2010

Westley Annis Westley at da-parish.com
Sun Jun 27 22:40:17 EDT 2010


St. Bernard Parish Oil Spill Update as of 1400 6/27/2010

A flyover conducted by flight operations personnel this afternoon on the
outside (Gulf side) of the Chandeleur Islands confirmed several 100x400 yard
streamers of emulsified recoverable oil. This was confirmed on-scene by St.
Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro and British Petroleum Representative
Bart Laborde, who performed a reconnaissance trip to the area. The product
is reddish in color and has the consistency of peanut butter. This oil is
currently located in Division One of St. Bernard Parish waters, and is
passing through the breaks in the islands and into the Sound.

Two near-shore skimming vessels (St. Bernard commercial fleet vessels fitted
with brush skimming systems) capable of recovering a total of 9,000 gallons
of oil are already in the area of the Chandeleur Islands. These vessels were
dispatched to recover oil that had already passed into the Sound as of this
morning. It is uncertain at this time whether or not these vessels will be
able to recover the amount of oil in the area with the storage capacity on
board.

Operations personnel are requesting additional resources, specifically three
Fast Response Vessels that are located in Venice, LA, which are designed to
perform offshore skimming operations and have a larger storage capacity.
Additionally, Command personnel in St. Bernard Parish have requested
assistance from Houma to dispatch fixed wing spotter planes to direct
response vessels and thereby assist in skimming operations.

For more information, contact Jennifer Belsom, Oil Disaster Public
Information Officer at 504-444-6249 or jbelsom at sbpg.net
<mailto:jbelsom at sbpg.net> or Lenor Duplessis, Executive Assistant to the
St. Bernard President at 504-874-0894 or luplessis at sbpg.net
<mailto:luplessis at sbpg.net> .





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