Northwest Area Contingency Plan for Oil Spill Response - Status of - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Northwest Area Contingency Plan for Oil Spill Response - Status of ESA Consultation with NMFS Scott A. Hecht, Ph.D. Chief, Washington Coast-Lower Columbia River Branch National Marine Fisheries Service

Endangered S Speci cies Act Consultation P Proce cess • Action Agencies: U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • Pre-consultation Discussions • Biological Assessment • Draft Biological Opinion • Review and discussion with Action Agencies • Final Biological Opinion

Action Area: >11,000 gallon spill in transportation corridors Tankers deliver crude oil to Ferndale/ Trans-Mountain pipeline delivers bitumen crude oil Anacortes refineries from Alberta to Ferndale/Anacortes refineries Red lines = Railways Olympic pipeline transports refined oil (diesel, gasoline Tankers and towed Black lines = and jet fuel) form Ferndale/Anacortes refineries to barges transport Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland. Kinder Morgan pipeline Pipelines refined oil from transports refined oil from Portland to Eugene. refineries to Seattle/Tacoma Tankers and barges transport BNSF/UP trains transport 154,000 refined oil barrels of crude oil from North along the Dakota/Wyoming to Ferndale/Anacortes West Coast Refineries Tidewater barges deliver refined oil from Portland to Pasco

Proposed A Act ctions i in n Respo ponse to an n Oil Spi Spill Spills into salmonid freshwater spawning, rearing and migration habitat: Spills into small freshwater tributaries: • Vessels and Booms to control oil • All of the previously mentioned • Sorbents to collect surface oil • Underflow dams and berms for • Vehicles and heavy equipment in tributaries less than 10 feet wide • staging areas, riparian buffer and Block Culverts for culverts less than 2 floodplain feet diameter • Pits and trenches to collect oil • Excavation of contaminated Spills into Columbia River, Willamette sediment, vegetation and LWD River, Puget Sound and Pacific Ocean: • • Manual collection of contaminated All of the previously mentioned • sediment, In situ burn • Ambient temperature low pressure Puget Sound, Strait of Juan de Fuca and washing of oiled streambanks into pits and trenches Pacific Ocean: • • Transportation of solid waste All of the previously mentioned • Chemical Dispersants • Decontamination of vessels, vehicles and equipment • Transportation of liquid hazardous waste

Action Area: In Open Ocean and Coastline Use of dispersants must be authorized by regional review team Use of dispersants is pre-approved

ESA Listed Species Likely to Adversely Affect (LAA) NMFS ESA-listed species within OCNMS • Puget Sound salmon and steelhead • Puget Sound yelloweye and boccacio Oncorhynchus kisutch • Lake Ozette sockeye • LCR, MCR, U Columbia River salmon and O. keta steelhead • Oregon Coast salmon and steelhead O. nerka • Snake River salmon and steelhead • Eulachon O. mykiss • Green sturgeon O. tshawytscha Not Likely to Adversely Affect (NLAA) Thaleichthys • Southern Resident Killer Whale pacificus • All other Pacific Ocean whales • All Pacific Ocean turtles

NOTE: Keeping Killer Whales Away from Oil spills NOAA Fisheries pre-approved monitoring and three hazing actions that the Unified Command will use if killer whales have been observed or are likely to be within 50 miles of an oil spill. 1. Designate a killer whale liaison to initiate communications with killer whale experts, researchers, sighting networks and advocacy groups to monitor/track the whale’s movements relative to cleanup activities and the spill trajectory. 2. Dispatch a trained whale observer to identify the type of killer whales and, if residents, which members of the Southern Resident killer whale population are present. 3. Order real-time reconnaissance (vessels or aircraft) for continuous monitoring if killer whales appear to be moving toward the spill, the spill trajectory, or clean-up activities and/or are found within 20 to 30 miles (6 hours) of oil or trajectory. 4. Ready hazing assets for deployment and staged to be on scene if whales are expected to approach within 10 miles (2 hours) of oil or spill trajectory. 5. Use helicopters, Oikami pipes, and underwater firecrackers deployed from vessels to prevent killer whales from entering oil. (Oikami pipes are reverberating pipes suspended from a vessel into the water and struck with a hammer. They have been effective tools for herding killer whales in near-shore or enclosed waters).

River Steelhead Chinook Coho Chum 2000 barrel oil populations populations populations populations spill concentration after 10 hour of turbulent mixing (ppm) Columbia River Steelhead: UCR; Chinook: UCR; Wenatchee Youngs Bay, Big Creek, Youngs Bay, Big Creek, 200 Wenatchee River, Entiat River, Entiat river, Methow Chinook and Grays, Grays and Chinook, River,Crab Creek, River, Okanogan River, Elochoman, Mill Creek, Elochoman, Mill Creek, Methow River, Okanogan Sanpoil River, Kettle River, Clatskanie, Scappoose, Clatskanie, Scappoose, River, Sanpoil River, Kettle Kooteney River, Spokane Lower Cowlitz, Tilton, Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis, River, Pend Oreville, River, Hangman Creek. Upper Cowlitz, Cispus, Salmon Creek, Kooteney River, Spokane LCR; Youngs Bay, Big North Fork Toutle, South Washougal, Sandy, Lower River, Hangman Creek. Creek, Grays, Elochoman, Fork Toutle, Coweeman, Gorge Tribs, Upper Gorge LCR; Tilton River, Upper Mill Creek, Clatskanie, Kalama, North Fork Lewis, Tribs. Cowlitz, Lower Cowlitz, Scappoose, Lower Cowlitz, East fork Lewis, Salmon Cispus, NFTR, SFTR, Upper Cowlitz, Toutle, Creek, Washougal, Sandy, Coweeman, Kalama, NF Coweeman, Kalama, Lower Gorge Tribs, Upper Lewis, EF Lewis, Salmon Lewis, Salmon Creek, Gorge Tribs, Hood River, Creek Washougal, Sandy, Washougal, Sandy, Lower White Salmon River. Upper Gorge Tribs, Lower Gorge Tribs, Upper Gorge Gorge Tribs, Hood River, Tribs, Hood River, White Clackamas. Willamette: Salmon River. Willamette: Molalla, North Santiam, Clackamas, Mollalla, North South Santiam, Santiam, South Santiam, Calopooia. Calapooia, McKenzie, Middle Fork Willamette

Environmental Baseline Mechanical Dispersion of 2000 Barrel Railroad Spill in Columbia River One dimensional simulation of a 2000 barrel train (80,000 gallons) derailment oil spill between the Dalles Dam and the Bonneville Dam with flow velocity of 0.18 meters per second and longitudinal dispersion coefficient of 35 square meters per second.

Effec ects o of the e Proposed Action i in Fr Fres eshwater Action Adverse Effects Coast Guard and EPA will ensure: Vessels and booms Anchors on benthic habitat/redds Environmental Unit consults NMFS on spawning at the spill site Sorbents Concentrated NAPL if sunk or lost Sorbent monitoring and replacement Vehicles and heavy equipment to Sediment exposed to erosion, removal of Engineered erosion control construct pits and trenches vegetation, lost shade Leave lightly oiled vegetation Mechanical excavation and manual Sediment exposed to erosion, lights at Equipment and foot traffic removal of contaminated sediment night, removal of benthic organisms, restrictions transfer contamination deeper into Engineered erosion control sediment, workers in streams Ambient temperature low pressure Sediment Engineered erosion controls washing of oiled substrate Skimming and vacuum May entrain eggs, larvae, small fish EU consults with NMFS Duckbill nozzles Dams and Berms in creek up to 10 Block or delay migration Consult with NMFS on spawner/smolt meters wide presence Culvert blocks Block migration Consult with NMFS on spawner/smolt presence

Effec ects o of the e Proposed A Action in C Columbia River, Puge get Sou ound, an and P Pac acif ific ic Oc Ocean Action Effect Conservation measures In-situ burn Exposure to burn residue Retrieve burn residue when possible Environmental Unit consults with NMFS Chemical dispersants Increased oil exposure to fish in the Rapid dilution water column Consult with NOAA except in pre-authorized area

Chemical Dispersant Oil Complex Dilutes Rapidly

Chemical Dispersant Conservation Measures Chemical Dispersants are authorized only after consultation with NMFS Case-by-Case Authorization Zones are areas where RRT 10 must approve each application of dispersants, which is done on the first day after a spill occurs and includes: • All US marine waters in Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca that are both within 3 nautical miles from the coastline or an island shoreline, and greater than 10 fathoms (60 ft) in depth; • Waters designated as a part of a the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary and waters that are part of the Makah Tribe Usual and Accustomed marine area and that are also greater than 10 fathoms (60 ft) in depth; • The Strait of Juan de Fuca and North Puget Sound from Point Wilson to Admiralty Head and north, and greater than 10 fathoms (60 ft) in depth; and • Waters within 5 km (3 miles) of the border of the country of Canada or the Makah Tribe Usual and Accustomed marine area.