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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill:
Lessons Learned
Chief Jon CallaisPort Fourchon Harbor Police
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April 20, 2010. We never imagined what was in store for us.
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April 20, 2010. We never imagined what was in store for us.Oil soon covered our beaches.
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It just kept coming in…
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…wave after wave.
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We had to identify and close breaches in our beachhead to
prevent oil from contaminating the fragile marshland beyond.
Vinyl Sheet Pile Dams
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Sand and Limestone Dam
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Another Land Bridge Closing a
Breach at Bayou Thunder
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Sand bags are no match for breaches with tidal movement…
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…but we had to try.
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And try.
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And try.
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It didn’t work.
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Fragile Marshland
Where Sandbags
Were Dropped
Breach Opening
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HESCO Baskets were installed to shore up beach dunes.
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These worked well.
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HESCO Baskets were a quick and easy setup.
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2.25 miles of HESCO baskets were placed on Fourchon Beach.
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“Cajun Engineering” at its best worked to close breaches.
This worked
This didn’t
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We saved large areas of wetlands from being oiled.
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Some oil did get through.
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And it kept coming in.
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Port Fourchon
BOOMING OPERATIONS (117+ MILES of boom)
Computer programs such as the C-4 system
helped our EOC to keep track of boom deployment.
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We had to take care of protesters quickly and thoroughly.
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Crews worked around the clock to set out containment boom.
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Local fishermen were put to work by BP in the Vessels of
Opportunity Program, or VOO.
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More locals at work to save our coast.
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Wildlife was especially vulnerable.
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Dispersants were used in an attempt to break up the oil.
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Porpoises swimming in oil broken up by dispersants.
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We controlled the throngs of media by providing guided access
twice daily with escorts.
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Port Fourchon had multiple visits from local, state, and federal
leaders while dealing with the oil spill and its aftermath.
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VIPs and other visitors were kept away from cleanup “hot zones”
for their safety.
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Cleanup workers were housed in Port Fourchon in flotels.
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Background checks were performed on each laborer that worked
on Fourchon Beach.
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Flotels, or floating hotels, sitting on a barge at a dock in Fourchon.
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Flotels and tent city in Port Fourchon
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Tent City
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All cleanup equipment was kept in one staging area
near Fourchon Beach.
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Cleanup materials were brought out to a centralized location
called the “Action Area.”
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Smaller VOO vessels picked up needed materials from the Action
Area instead of going into port, meaning less drive time.
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This system worked really well.
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Several vessels loading materials from a barge in the Action Area.
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Boom going from vessel to water.
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And there were many boats working.
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Instead of fishing for shrimp, this local fisherman is fishing for oil.
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Fishing vessels were modified to drag boom instead of nets.
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Boom deployment by local fishermen in action.
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Port Fourchon was an ideal location to stage decontamination
sites. There were five in port for this operation.
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It takes a village to clean up an oil spill.
Our village is Port Fourchon.
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Questions?
CONTACT INFO:
Chief Jon Callais
Port Fourchon Harbor Police
(985) 632-6701
(Chief Callais is the man on the right)