| Situation Report # 36 Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 1200 hrs EDT |
| Charlie Crist
Governor |
David Halstead
State Coordinating Officer |
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| Weather Summary:
• Areas of tarballs, tar patties, and sheen have been confirmed approximately 10 miles from the Escambia County shoreline and 6 miles from Navarre Beach. • According to the NOAA oil plume model, the primary oil plume is 30 miles from Pensacola, more than 150 miles from Gulf County, and 330 miles from St. Petersburg, with non contiguous sheens and scattered tarballs closer. • Southwest winds are expected to continue through Sunday with speeds of 10-15 knots. Trajectories show a northeastward movement of oil over the next 3 days, threatening the shorelines of Alabama and possibly the western Florida Panhandle. Forecasted increases in seas and a 50-80% chance of showers and thunderstorms through Friday may hamper surface oil recovery operations. West winds are forecast for early next week, though a rare late season cold front may produce offshore winds as early as next Wednesday. • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a fact sheet titled “Hurricanes and the Oil Spill” at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/hurricanes_oil_factsheet.pdf Current Situation: • Florida beaches are open. • Unified Area Command estimates release rate of oil from Deepwater Horizon at 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day. • This event has been designated a Spill of National Significance. • Unified Area Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and spill response planning following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. • More than 20,000 personnel are working the on and offshore response. • Oil-water mix recovered: approximately 14.8 million gallons • Response vessels in use: more than 1,900 • Dispersant (in gallons): approximately 1,005,000 deployed / 455,000 available (There is no planned use of dispersants in Florida waters.) • 17 staging areas are in place to protect sensitive shorelines in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Florida Specific: • A Florida Peninsula Command Post has been established in Miami. St. Petersburg, Key West, and Miami fall under the Peninsula Command as tactical branches to the oil spill response. • Oil Containment Boom (in feet) total: 257,750 deployed in Florida. o Tier 1: 134,250 / Tier 2: 123,500 • In accordance with established plans, protective booming and boom maintenance is being conducted in the coastal areas of Bay, Escambia, Franklin, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton Counties. • BP is providing a $100,000 grant through a Memorandum of Understanding with Volunteer Florida to maintain a database for the registration of volunteers: http://www.1-800-volunteer.org/1800Vol/volunteerflorida/viewEventDetails.do? eventId=31601 • BP issued a $25 million block grant to Florida; first priority is booming. • BP has issued a second $25 million grant to Florida for a national tourism advertising campaign. ESF 18 – Business, Industry, and Economic Development has launched a national radio and print advertising campaign, promoting Florida tourism. • 65 of 1,151 Florida contracts have been activated for the Vessels of Opportunity program. • At the request of Governor Crist, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce expanded the fishery failure declaration for the Gulf of Mexico to include Florida on 6/2/10. This declaration provides impacted and eligible commercial fisheries the opportunity for federal support; it does not close fisheries. • BP claims in Florida: 5,487 / approximately $3,882,844.12 paid o Wage Loss: 2,997 claims / $1,901,532.28 o Loss of Income: Commercial: 426 claims / $288,976.93 Business Interruption: 278 claims / $112,408.28 Shrimper: 126 claims / $266,750.00 Fishermen: 601 claims / $647,394.79 Oyster Harvester: 196 claims / $6,300.00 Crabber: 16 claims / $5,000.00 Recreational Fishermen: 4 claims / $10,000.00 Wholesale Distributor: 7 claims / $5,000.00 Rental Property: 446 claims / $75,725.00 Maintenance Company: 6 claims / $7,680.00 Seafood Processor: 14 claims / $6,000.00 Charters: 239 claims / $531,776.84 Marine Repair: 16 claims / $10,000.00 Real Estate Sales: 53 claims / $5,000.00
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State Actions:
•State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is at a Level 2 (Partial) with Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) as the lead agency. •Governor’s Executive Orders 10-99, 10-100, and 10-106 declared a state of emergency for: o Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, and Gulf (10-99) o Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota (10-100) o Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach (10-106) •Governor’s Executive Order 10-115 authorizes the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to designate Free Saltwater Fishing Days to encourage noncommercial fishing in Florida. •Governor’s Executive Order 10-101 established the Gulf Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force, which will facilitate efforts by Florida businesses and industries to recover from the loss of commerce and revenues due to the oil spill. •Conducting daily conference calls with: county and emergency management partners, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator, and various Unified Commands. •A 22-member Forward-State Emergency Response Team (F-SERT) is on-scene at the Unified Command in Mobile. •The State Emergency Response Team is supporting efforts with 6 personnel at St. Petersburg and 4 members at Florida Peninsula Command. •ESF 13-Florida National Guard (FLNG) Personnel o 1 LNO, 1 PAO at Robert, LA Unified Area Command o 2 LNOs at Mobile Unified Command o 3 LNOs at the SEOC o 2 LNOs at the Joint Operations Center in Louisiana •30 FLNG personnel with 5 aircraft are providing air support on-scene in Louisiana through EMAC. •Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is conducting regular reconnaissance flights to monitor Florida’s shoreline for impact. •ESF 15 – Volunteers and Donation is providing consistent messaging to Florida volunteers, “All oil-contaminated materials will only be handled by trained, paid workers and not by volunteers.” Individuals from 33 states, Canada, and Spain have registered to volunteer with the Deepwater Horizon database. •The Boom Coordination Cell continues to coordinate additional requests. •An Innovative Technology Cell is assessing alternative clean-up technologies suggested by the public and stakeholders. •ESF 10 – A website to view all of the consolidated State sampling data that is being collected along the Gulf Coastline is at www.nrdata.org. •The Small Business Administration has issued an Economic Injury Disaster Loan Declaration for the State of Florida. o Disaster Loan Outreach Centers have been opened in the following counties: Bay, Escambia, Gulf, Franklin, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, and Walton. o Loan Applications: Issued: 150 Accepted: 25 Declined: 6 Approved: 0
Florida Information Lines •ESF 14 – The Florida Oil Spill Information Line (FOSIL) is available from 8am-6pm EDT daily at (888) 337-3569. •Mobile Unified Command has established two public hotline numbers for oil spill investigation and cleanup: o Impacted Wildlife: (866) 557-1401 o Oiled Shoreline: (866) 448-5816 •The Florida Department of State has established a hotline for archeological, historical preservation, and tribal lands that may be impacted by the Deepwater Horizon incident: (850) 245-6530. Local States of Emergency •Bay: Expires on 6/3/10 •Dixie: Expires on 6/3/10 •Escambia: Expires on 6/4/10 •Franklin: Expires on 6/8/10 •Gulf: Expires on 6/3/10 •Okaloosa: Concurrent with State •Santa Rosa: Expires on 6/4/10 •Sarasota: Expires on 6/7/10 •Wakulla: Expires on 6/7/10 •Walton: Expires on 6/5/10 County EOC Activations •Bay, Level 2 (Partial)•Okaloosa, Level 2 (Partial) •Wakulla, Level 2 (Partial) •Escambia, Level 2 (Partial) •Santa Rosa, Level 2 (Partial
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