Ala. city prepared to launch oil skimmers
Published 10:50 pm Monday, July 5, 2010
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — Orange Beach officials are putting the finishing touches on a plan to deploy a fleet of small skimming vessels to collect sheen and light streams of oil from the area’s backbays.
Work also was continuing on Monday to complete a 3,200-foot-long barrier of floating pipe across Perdido Pass.
Orange Beach Coastal Resources Manager Phillip West said that at least one of the boats, which utilize absorbent pads, should be in the water by Tuesday morning and as many as five could be working by the end of the week to pick up oil from the massive Gulf spill.
West says as many as 30 of the boats eventually could ply the area’s inshore waters.
He says the vessels were developed and are being built by a Baldwin County company.
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