On Wednesday, mayor Robert Quaiff declared that the County was in a state of emergency. McKeil has hired Pinchin Environmental for that task. On Friday, the MOECC also issued an order to McKeil Marine, under the Ontario Water Resources Act, to conduct short- and long-term monitoring of water in the bay following the spill. However, in testing the surface water, Wheeler says ministry staff have found “the presence of a mixture consistent with that of a heavier petroleum product, along with that of a diesel fuel.” That means that once the water intake is running again, the health unit can remove the boil water advisory. Results from the plant are clean, and show the water is safe to drink. The ministry has been testing both water from the bay and the water treatment plant. They are also working with the Canadian Coast Guard and Environment and Climate Change Canada to monitor the water in the bay. Gary Wheeler, speaking for the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) says the ministry has been working with the municipality to ensure the water treatment plant has safe, potable water. Now, several organizations are involved in monitoring the water, both in the bay and at the water treatment plan.
However, she encourages the public to report any sightings of potential oil spills, such as a sheen on the water, as some members of the public had described, by calling the Coast Guard’s reporting network at 1-80. The first organization to respond was the Canadian Coast Guard, who were informed early Friday morning of the incident.Ĭarol Launderville, representing the Coast Guard, says her department holds to the estimate that 20 – 30 litres of liquid were spilled, a relatively minor volume. So is the team from the Eastern Canada Response Corporation (ECRC), hired by McKeil Marine- the company that had chartered the barge-to clean up the spill. The majority of the oily liquid the barge had released when it sank late in the evening of Thursday, March 23, more than a week earlier, had either been cleaned up, evaporated or dissipated, the remaining fluid no longer appearing on the water’s surface, although trace amounts can still be found mixed into the water of the bay. On Sunday, after it was righted, temporarily patched and emptied of fuel, a tugboat pulled the 28- metre-long, 58-year-old Pitts Carillon, a small barge owned by Galcon Marine, out of Picton Bay and to its home port in Toronto. "The family company has a number of lattice crawler cranes, mostly Koehring and Link Belt units, fitted with draglines or clamshells with capacities of up to 50 tons.The barge is gone, but there’s still work to do "A fully-licensed crane operator, Gallagher had been lifting for Galcon Marine Ltd., a marine construction firm run by his father, where he worked nearly half his life." "Man killed in Whitby crane accident was looking forward to first child". In February 2012 David Angus Gallagher, one of the two sons in this family firm died in an accident on one of their job sites. It owns and operates large lattice crawler cranes suitable for excavating or dredging. The firm specializes in marine construction.
Galcon Marine is a construction firm based in Ontario, Canada.
0 kommentar(er)
