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Motor Vessel Selendang Ayu Unified Command Joint Information Center | |||||
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JUNEAU, Alaska - Continued inclement weather forced Unified Commanders to recall some of the response vessels to Dutch Harbor and the ones, which are unable to make it, are pulling into other bays for shelter. As a result, today’s response activities were expected to be restricted to over flights, vessel lightering, water-quality sampling and wildlife recovery operations. Weather permitting, shoreline cleanup operations will continue. Oil sampling using net tows was scheduled for today in the same areas. Snare-packs will be issued to the Pacific cod catcher boats in the area to detect oil contamination. No shoreline cleanup was done Friday due to inclement weather. To date, cleanup crews have collected 33,166 bags (552 cubic yards) of oily solid waste. Oily solid waste was barged out to Seattle for disposal, in 31 roll-off containers weighing 30, 000 lbs each Thursday. The oily solid waste consists of oiled terrestrial vegetation, dried seaweed, sand, gravel, and driftwood picked up from the shoreline during the cleanup operations in the bays. The lightering team removed 1,680 gals of intermediate fuel oil (IFO) from the number four-port tank and sealed the tank Friday. The total volume lightered from the vessel to date is 102,196 gallons of IFO/water and 3,094 gallons of diesel/water for a total of 105,290 gallons of IFO/water/diesel. One cube of recovered fuel was transported to Dutch Harbor. Four ISO tanks containing 5,000 gallons each of lightered fuel were barged out to Seattle for disposal Thursday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed 6 oiled and/or scavenged birds from McIver Bay (2), Kashega Bay (1), and Skan Bay (3) Friday. To date a total of 1131 dead birds have been recovered. Today two boats will be towing nets in Unalaska Bay in areas where crab boats are waiting to deliver opilio crab and areas near the processors.
Today's weather in Dutch Harbor consists of mostly cloudy skies, rain with the possibility of snow, northeast winds 2at 25 knots, seas five feet and a high near 38 degrees. | |||||
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