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www.oscreadiness.org 15 th Annual OSC Readiness Training Program A Tale of Two Spills Steven Merritt – EPA R8 OSC Gina Cristiano – EPA R8 OSC
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A Tale of Two SpillsSteven Merritt – EPA R8 OSCGina Cristiano – EPA R8 OSC
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Red Butte CreekSLC, UT (06/2010)
Yellowstone RiverBillings, MT (07/2011)
It’s All Relative…
Region 8 Oil Spill Overviews
Making friends and influencing people in Unified Command…
To SCAT or not to SCAT, that is the question…
The fundamental differences between public information and the media…
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Red Butte Creek Oil Spill Overview
Gina CristianoEPA On-Scene Coordinator
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Friday Night - June 11, 2010 Pipeline break due
to transmission station arc
Downhill run = no alarms
Approx 1,000 barrels discharged to Red Butte Creek
Local FD and Big D Construction respond
State, county and EPA come later
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Let’s talk one spill…Red Butte Creek
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Liberty Park Pond
Aviary
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Silvertip Pipeline Oil Spill Overview
Steven MerrittEPA On-Scene Coordinator
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PBS NewsHour – 7/5/2011
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Friday, 7/1/2011, just before
midnight, on a long holiday weekend…
After two months of record rainfall,
elevated snowpack, spring runoff and
flooding…
4-6 feet of earthen cover atop the
Silvertip Pipeline crossing erodes at
peak flow…
Pipeline severed and discharges 1509 barrels of
medium sour crude into Yellowstone
River…
Hydrogen sulfide and petroleum odor complaints prompt evacuations and sheltering of 350
people overnight…
ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and
CHS (Cenex) Refinery Spill
Response Teams deploy…
EPA Region 8 OSCs, START and ERRS mobilized and deployed to
incident…
EMPCo IMT and OSRO resources slow to arrive in
Montana…
EPA HQ and Region 8 RICT
demand updates from FOSC…
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Notification & The Telephone Game
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40 CFR 300.305(e) & 300.320(b) -Consultation
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Contrasts and Perspectives
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ICS & Unified Command
Coordinated and effective joint response
By CWA/OPA, OSC has 51% vote
Few are trained to implement over the long-term
JIC complicated by perception problem
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Cable News Media – 7/8/2011
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To SCAT or not to SCAT…
Inland river SCAT is not the same
No SCAT at RBC but still assessed impacts and dealt with them
Any assessment effort must be synchronized with operations
Experienced SCAT team members needed
Stakeholders must have common objectives/goals for SCAT
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Total A B C
Acr
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Division
Degree of Oiled Acres
HeavyModerate LightVery LightNo Oil Observed
No Oil Observed Very Light Light Moderate Heavy Total
Surveyed
A 419 144 118 154 10 845
B 432 444 463 137 1 1,476
C 5,081 2,069 253 9 0 7,412
Total 5,932 2,657 834 300 11 9,734
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Public Information vs.Media Relations
Plan for an OSC spokesperson or highly experienced response media person
FOG OF WAR - expect uncertainty
Never “get ahead” of the media cycle if OSCs muzzled initially
Media doesn’t educate the public; more personal interaction and time required
Laboratory data cannot and should not drive information sharing
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“We thank you for your support!”
Gina CristianoEmergency [email protected]
Steven MerrittOn-Scene [email protected]
