Msrc dispersant exercise Issue-13Jun2012; chandeleur sound, la

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MSRC Dispersant Exercise Issue-13Jun2012; Chandeleur Sound, LA.
Chandeleur Sound, LA.
1. On July 5, 2012 USCG District 8, Sector NOLA and MSU Morgan City called a conference call to discuss an alleged use of actual dispersant during a planned MSRC drill on June 12 & 13, 2012. MSRC aerial dispersant contactor was scheduled to do a test spray using tap water only in a target area 50mi SE of Stennis airport (thier base of operations). Instead, the test sprays were conducted over Chandeleur Sound jsut east of the Miss R. delta, in an area being worked by a fleet of "pogie boats" (small fish netting) with a spotter aircraft directing the pogie boats. During the incident, the spotter aircraft is reported to have taken a set of pictures of the area showing teh water covered by a large area of foam. No exact coordinates or other record of the image time/date/ and location were provided to the USCG. In a news article published 4July2012 on the Times-Picayune web site (NOLA.com), it [...]
2. THREAT: OTHER. COMMODITY: DISPERSANT USE IS ALLEGED.. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 3600 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 29.833N 089.067W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 8473: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/8473