Coast Guard, local responders assess sunken lease land near Goble, Oregon

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 05/09/2017 07:00 PM EDT

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News Release  

May 9, 2017
U.S. Coast Guard 13th District Pacific Northwest
Contact: 13th District Public Affairs
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Coast Guard, local responders assess submerged land lease site near Goble, Oregon

Representatives from the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, from Novato, Calif., Coast Guard Marine Environmental Detachment Portland, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Oregon National Response Corporation conduct a site assessment and hazard categorization at a submerged land lease site near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017. A Unified Command consisting of the Coast Guard, DEQ and Oregon Department of State Lands are preparing to remove all oil and hazardous materials from the site to mitigate pollution threats to the sensitive environment of the Columbia River. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg

Representatives from the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, from Novato, Calif., Coast Guard Marine Environmental Detachment Portland, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Oregon National Response Corporation conduct a site assessment and hazard categorization at a submerged land lease site near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017.

A Unified Command consisting of the Coast Guard, DEQ and Oregon Department of State Lands are preparing to remove all oil and hazardous materials from the site to mitigate pollution threats to the sensitive environment of the Columbia River.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.
Representatives from the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, from Novato, Calif., and the Oregon National Response Corporation conduct a site assessment and hazard categorization at a submerged land lease near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017. The Pacific Strike Team is one of three regionally-based teams that make up the National Strike Force, which is comprised of a highly trained cadre of Coast Guard professionals who rapidly deploy to prevent or clean up hazardous material discharges on behalf of the American public. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg

Representatives from the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, from Novato, Calif., and the Oregon National Response Corporation conduct a site assessment and hazard categorization at a submerged land lease near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017.

The Pacific Strike Team is one of three regionally-based teams that make up the National Strike Force, which is comprised of a highly trained cadre of Coast Guard professionals who rapidly deploy to prevent or clean up hazardous material discharges on behalf of the American public.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.
Pollution responders from the Coast Guard and the State of Oregon assess a site, owned by the Oregon Department of State Lands and leased to a private party in 2012, for oil and hazardous materials associated to derelict vessels near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017. The Coast Guard and Oregon Departments of Environmental Quality will oversee the removal of hazardous materials from vessels remaining at the Goble site beginning June 1, 2017, in order to mitigate any environmental threat.U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.

Pollution responders from the Coast Guard and the State of Oregon assess a site, owned by the Oregon Department of State Lands and leased to a private party in 2012, for oil and hazardous materials associated to derelict vessels near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017.

The Coast Guard and Oregon Departments of Environmental Quality will oversee the removal of hazardous materials from vessels remaining at the Goble site beginning June 1, 2017, in order to mitigate any environmental threat.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.
Representatives from the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, from Novato, Calif., Coast Guard Marine Environmental Detachment Portland, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Oregon National Response Corporation conduct a site assessment and hazard categorization at a submerged land lease near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017. The site owned by the Oregon Department of State Lands and leased to a private party has grown into a concern to the Coast Guard and multiple agencies from the State of Oregon because of the environmental impact vessels and other materials at the site have or could have to the sensitive Columbia River ecosystem. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.

Representatives from the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, from Novato, Calif., Coast Guard Marine Environmental Detachment Portland, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Oregon National Response Corporation conduct a site assessment and hazard categorization at a submerged land lease near Goble, Ore., May 9, 2017.

The site owned by the Oregon Department of State Lands and leased to a private party has grown into a concern to the Coast Guard and multiple agencies from the State of Oregon because of the environmental impact vessels and other materials at the site have or could have to the sensitive Columbia River ecosystem.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Klingenberg.

 

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