Ecology plans San Juan oil spill strategy meetings
April 8th, 2008 - 5:38am
(Friday Harbor) -- The public is invited to help the state Department of Ecology and Coast Guard update and improve
site-specific oil-spill response strategies used for the San Juan
Islands, called geographic response plans.
Ecology and the Coast Guard will hold two workshops this week - one in Friday Harbor and one in Eastsound - where citizens, resource managers, spill response contractors and oil-industry representatives can help identify any new information that might make the strategies more effective.
Geographic response plans are oil-spill response strategies tailored to reduce the effects of oil spills to sensitive areas along beaches, shores, or waterways.
The first workshop will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Friday
at the Mullis Community Senior Center in Friday Harbor.
The second workshop will be conducted from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on
Saturday at the Orcas Island Fire Department in Eastsound.
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