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BOW JUBAIL WILDLIFE RESPONSE
23 June – 24 July 2018
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Thirteenth Meeting - - PDF document
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Thirteenth Meeting - - PDF document
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Thirteenth Meeting of the HELCOM Expert Working EWG OWR 13-2019 Group on Oiled Wildlife Response (EWG OWR 13-2019) Online meeting, 14.03.2019 Document title Bow Jubail incident presentation Code
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Bow Jubail incident
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(day 1) Incident 23rd June, 1:30 pm
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(day 1) SAF received notification at 4 pm
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“hundreds of swans oiled; being rescued”
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Swans brought to SON Rehab centres
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Rehab centres getting overwhelmed
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(day 1) SAF contacted Rijkswaterstaat: activation of plan?
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Oil spill and pollution
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(day 2) Situation at 6 pm (28 h after incident):
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400 swans in care (stabilisation) in rehab centres
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600 swans counted in harbour area
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Decision to activate plan, build Temporary Wildlife Hospital
Spill location Spread of pollution
Wildlife response nodes
Maeslantkering Houtsnip Wulp Garage Maassluis Karel Schot Wildlife response coordination centre (Maeslantkering)
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Misleading picture Google maps
Parking space (levelled > TWH?) Visitor Centre Grass field all around >Pools?
Maeslant storm surge barrier
TWH? Visitor Centre Hill Sea defence
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TWH Pools
Main base Satellite location
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TWH Drying pens Stabilisation pens Secured entry Visitor Centre RWS office Secured area
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- 1. Security checkpoint; visitors registration
- 2. Red Cross First Aid post
- 3. Stockpile container Ecoloss
- 4. Container with donations (Public and Shell)
- 5. Ecoloss rest room container
- 6. Toilet and showers
- 7. Response Management Office (Portokabin)
- 8. TOV and Volunteer Administration (Portokabin)
- 9. Buffer tanks water
10.Waste container for liquid and moist materials 11.Waste container for not-oily waste 12.Aggregate to support external units 13.Outside cages 14.Freezer container 15.Oily waste 16.Liquid and moist not-oily waste 17.TWH Main Tent 18.Aggregate 19.Toilets 20.Hand washing place 21.Waste water (incl oily water) container 22.Volunteer canteen 23.Main water heater with external fuel tank 24.Reserve water heater with external fuel tank 25.Heat exchange unit 26.External drying pens
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Reception Intake Vet room Dress room Decontamination Animal kitchen Wash room Dry pens (inside) Dry pens (outside) Stabilisation pens (outside) Stabilisation pens (inside)
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Portocabins Sanitary unit Fresh water canal Fresh water intake Fresh water pools and haul out Drying pens Brackish water pools and haul out River (Nieuwe Waterweg) Harbour Brackish water inlet
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Streams of animals (swans)
Houtsnip Wulp Maassluis Karel Schot TWH Maeslantkering Released with scientific ring Released without scientific ring
? ~90 66 40 155 261 497 14
Euthanasia Died in care
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Intensive care
Origin of TOV intake From Karel Schot From De Wulp From Maassluis Directly from Field
Released with scientific ring
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Euthanasia
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Died in care
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Overall result
TWH result Numbers % total (excl birds to K Schot) 508 100.00 died 4 0.79 euthanised 7 1.38 released 497 97.83 Karel Schot result Numbers %
Received from TWH
14 100.00
Died in care
1 7.14
Euthanised
1 7.14
Released
12 85.71
Result K Schot +TWH
Numbers %
Received
522 100.00
Died in care
5 0.96
Euthanised
8 1.53
Released
509 97.51
522 swans received
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TWH swan population
100 200 300 400 500 600 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Chart Title
Intake according to data Released Spill day Stabilisation Ready to wash (Holding) Dry cages Conditioning pool Release pool Total on work floor
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Personnel
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Work floor reliable statistics
EUROWA experts total SON-Respons experts total SON-Respons trained volunteers Reliable volunteer counts 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Work floor extrapolated statistics
EUROWA experts total SON-Respons experts total Synthesis of convergent volunteers
Work days
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91 experts
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27 experts SAF/EUROWA/GOWRS
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32 experts SON professionals
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32 experts SON trained volunteers
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>142 volunteers
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233 individuals involved
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1,387 man days of experts and volunteers
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SAF coordinated claims for
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Sea Alarm/ 3 Sea Alarm staff
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2 Sea Alarm contracted experts
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8 Dutch organisations
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8 international organisations
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EUROWA/GOWRS experts total SON-Respons experts total Synthesis of convergent volunteers n
10,401 swan days
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Individuals spending time
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
Individual time spent (ranked)
EUROWA/GORWS SON SON Volunteers
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 28 31 34 37 40 43 46 49 52 55 58 61 64 67 70 73 76 79 82 85 88 91
Days total # of individuals (ranked many days >> fewer days) # of days spent per individual # of days spent per individual # of individuals (ranked many days >> fewer days)
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Visits to activities
n Formal Ø Ministers Ø Decision makers n Informal Ø Havariekommando (DE) Ø MCA (UK) Ø Aramco (NL) Ø ExxonMobil (UK)
LESSONS LEARNED
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Lessons learned (1/5)
n Temporary wildlife hospital Ø It worked well; very successful (97.5% release) Ø NOT plug and play (many operational challenges) Ø Room for improvements (e.g. admin, counting) n SON, EUROWA, GOWRS Ø Pre-investments key to success
n SON >> EUROWA >>GOWRS (local-regional-global)
Ø EUROWA guidelines facilitated cooperation Ø GOWRS partners slotted in well, made valuable
contributions
Lessons learned (2/5)
n NL Wildlife plan Ø RWS prepared to lead and pick up the bill
(compensate NGOs)
Ø RWS provided specialised contractor (Ecoloss) for
logistics TWH
Ø NL Rehab organisations (coordinated by SON-
Respons) delivered as planned
Ø International expertise (EUROWA,global) mobilised
and coordinated by Sea Alarm
n Animal welfare Ø Implemented via EUROWA protocols on the work floor
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Lessons learned (3/5)
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Sea Alarm’s role
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No response contract (but preparedness project)
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Mobilised by SON-Response (via NL NGO protocol)
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Filled gaps integration of NGO contributions
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Lead of NGO involvements (planning, admin)
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Contract with RWS-WNZ for cost recovery (not response)
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Other gaps filled
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Common operating picture (incl field ops)
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HSE, volunteers planning, field response
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Coaching THW managers
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Coordinate compensation claims of NGOs
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Instruction to NGO claimants (ensure consistency in approach)
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Check drafts and provide comments
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Ensure sound administration in SAF book keeping
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Send in claim to RWS, distribute payments amongst claimants
Lessons learned (4/5)
n Costs totals Ø Total cost estimate cleanup: ca 65-80 mln EURO
n Limit polluter (Bunker Convention): ca 17 mln n RWS pays overall bill n Polluter pays: RWS tries to get compensation from polluter
beyond 17 mln.
Ø Total claim “swans”: ca 1.5 - 2 mln
n Mostly logistics, consumables, rentals n Total claim NGOs (manpower, travel etc) ca 0.46-0.47 mln
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Lessons learned (5/5)
n Evaluation Ø Politically sensitive
n Many formal evaluations
Ø Individual actors (Safety Regions, PoR, RWS) Ø National evaluation (National Board for Safety)
Ø Wildlife response pending evaluation RWS-NGOs n Evaluations NGOs held Ø SON-Respons (national NGOs) Ø EUROWA (international experts)
Follow-up
n RWS 2017-2022 project allows improvement
preparedness
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