GRP: |
San Juan Islands and North Puget Sound
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Strategy Area: |
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Strategy Number: |
NPS-09
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Checked By: |
Lummi Natural Resources Department
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Date: |
7/27/2011
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Type: |
Field Test
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Latitude: |
48.793657
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Longitude: |
-122.663306
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Location: |
The mouth of the Lummi River at Lummi Bay
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Response Strategy: |
400 ft of deflection boom deployed to cover the mouth of the Lummi River to deflect oil and possibly collect.
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Feet/Type of Boom: |
400 ft deflection boom
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Strategy Implementation: |
The deflection boom was transported by trailer to the left bank (looking downstream) of the Lummi River and deployed by pulling it to the right bank on foot during a -0.85 ft MLLW tide (see below for detail).
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Staging Area: |
There is a parking area were the dike access road (originating at the intersection of Kwina Road and Hillaire Road) meets the Seapond Dike and the Lummi River levee and a turnout on the road on top of the seawall/levee close to the strategy site.
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Site Access: |
Access to the left (east) bank of the Lummi River is available over the dike access road that leads to the Seapond Dike and the road on top of the eastern Lummi Bay seawall/Lummi River levee. The right (west) bank of the Lummi River is not easily accessib
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Resources Requiring Protection: |
Tribal lands/Lummi River, Salmonids, Sensitive Habitat
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Comments: |
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