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

[Westley Annis]

these people are totally screwed up in their minds---gee let's wait until
the oil gets inside the sound before we try to assign some boats to try to
get to the oil---what am I missing here???
 
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	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> .