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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 Wreck: The Hero’s weight of about 600,000 pounds presents a challenge Continued from Page 1A Cleanup update The state Department of Ecology has been working with Global Diving & Salvage to monitor and clean up the spill. Crews are still regularly visit- ing the ship, which is docked on the South Fork of the Palix River near the entrance to Wil- lapa Bay, to take water sam- ples and to remove and replace materials used to contain and soak up petroleum products and dirty water. In mid-March, Global div- ers explored a section of the boat that had previously been inaccessible. They found no new stores of oil but absor- bent materials did become saturated. Starting around March 17, the oil-sheen and petroleum odor started to abate, Depart- ment of Ecology staffer Linda Pilkey-Jarvis said in an update on the Hero cleanup webpage. Absorbent materials are also soaking up less oil. The department plans to continue taking water samples, photographing the site, and monitoring the boat for any changes, Pilkey-Jarvis said. Informal approach “As far as the Hero goes, there was never a real spill. There was a sheen,” state Department of Health Envi- ronmental Engineer Mark Toy said. The Department of Health has the authority to shut down an area affected by an oil spill. However, the agency didn’t take that step, because the spill was relatively small, and the two oyster companies with facilities close to the boat — Bay Center Mariculture and Taylor Shellfish — voluntarily stopped selling any oysters that might have been affected. “We basically tried to deal with it informally because the growers were not harvesting. But if it had turned out that there was a continuous leak- age coming from the ship, we would have formally closed the area,” Toy explained. How much is too much? Food and water safety laws, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offer guidelines about when to open an area again, but each situation is unique. “Sheen can be very mis- leading about what the actual concentration is,” Toy said. Some spills look bad, but aren’t especially toxic. Some spills do sicken people, plants and ani- mals. Others aren’t dangerous, but affect the taste or appear- ance of fish and shellfish. In this case, “The main issue, as far as when to reopen an area, isn’t health impacts,” Toy said. “It’s something called ‘taint’ — an ‘off’ odor or taste. We have obligations under food-safety laws not to allow adulterated product onto the market.” Toy said these undesirable tastes or odors can be a persistent problem even the shellfish wouldn’t be dan- gerous to consume. For now, the Department of Health is communicating with growers and other agen- cies, and waiting to see what happens. “It’s very difficult to make a subjective call,” Toy said. Wilson said his company doesn’t harvest oysters near the Hero, but they do sometimes hold product in the water right downstream from the boat. “We didn’t take any chances there,” Wilson said. “We’re just not going to use this area for a while.” Wilson said he thought the spill “could have been a real disaster,” if oyster-growers had not pressed authorities to remove oil from the boat a cou- ple of years ago. “Otherwise, we would have had stuff streaming out of there forever. In an old boat, it’s in everything — the bilge and everywhere,” Wilson said. Too many boats, too little money The location, funding and condition of the Hero are pre- senting an unprecedented chal- lenge to those charged with getting it out of the river, said Troy Wood, derelict vessel removal program manager for the state Department of Natu- ral Resources. “We will eventually have to deal with it at some point,” Wood said. “It’s an old wooden vessel and old wooden vessels break down. It would spread that wreckage.” In early 2015, “It was reported to us that it was ugly-looking, but it’s not against the law to be ugly,” Wood said. The boat’s presumed owner, Bay Center resident Sun Feather LightDancer, had the right to keep his private- ly-owned boat moored at his private dock, and the Hero wasn’t polluting the river then, so it didn’t qualify for the der- elict vessel program’s list of “Vessels of Concern.” Once it sunk, it made the list, because it’s illegal to pollute state waters, Wood explained. Owners are responsible for dealing with their problem boats, and any damage they cause, but it doesn’t always work out that way. There are about 147 known derelict boats around the state. Wood’s pro- gram has limited ability to deal with these boats. “We are not a response agency, and we are the last resort, and only when funds are available,” Wood said. The pro- gram has about $120,000 left until the next two-year funding cycle starts in July 2018. “Those (dollars) would be for little boats at this point, because we have so little fund- ing available, and every option we’ve explored with the Hero would exceed our budget,” Wood said. Heavy lift The Hero weighs about 600,000 pounds. Back when it was plowing through the ice in Antarctic backwaters, that heft was an advantage. Now that the state needs to get it out of the Palix River before it breaks into splinters, it’s a problem. Sometimes, the Department of Natural Resources can make a boat float again, or simply seal up all the big leaks, and put it on hold until there’s a plan and enough money to deal with it. Sometimes, it’s possible to dismantle a boat and remove it piece by piece. Due to its location, the state also consid- ered towing the Hero away. But boat is in such a state of decay, and currents around it so swift that none of those options would work. “Unfortunately, we would have to raise the vessel,” Wood said, “but the cost would drain our account.” The state also considered taking it out by land, and dis- covered that it wouldn’t be physically possible. “To get a crane to lift it out of the hole it’s in — it’s not fea- sible at this point, because of the distance to the road,” Wood said. With all the obvious options exhausted, the derelict vessel staff “(is) considering other options,” Wood said, but he didn’t want to say what they had in mind. “I would hesitate to go into it at this point because some of them are so far outside of the box that they would be consid- ered whimsical,” Wood said. “No idea is too silly.” W EDNESDAY E VENING (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM A PRIL 6 Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Journalist Buzz Bissinger A Columbia Forum Presentation Buzz Bissinger is among the nation’s most honored and distinguished writers. 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