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Letters to the Editor (April 27, 2023) - Valencia County News-Bulletin
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water s edge. reporter: using sand sifting machines and shovels, workers are able to remove most of the tar balls and oil patches covering the beach in the tourist area. but if daylight, there is still a stain along the water s edge and lots of oil buried beneath the sand that washed ashore on the high tide. even in an area like this which seems relatively clean, you can still find oil right here. all you have to do is dig a bit. i m cutting into the sand just a few inches. and already i m running into thick dark oil. and there s a lot of it. for the length of this beach. and officials say this, too, will have to be cleaned up. scientists worry this oil could still be toxic to wildlife and people s skin and take years to degrade. just getting it buried in the sand alone is going to make it last a long time. it it continually be reexposed. if it gets down to where there s no oxygen, it will be around a lot longer, even than just a few years. reporter: it s a problem also feared
16 barges have already arrived with at least 100 more expected by next week. area leaders hope to sink them alongside one another at major passes where gulf waters flow into coastal louisiana. orange beach is taking matters into its own hands. crews are now working on a $4.6 million steel pipe boom plan. it will float. it has a vain on the top of about 18 inches. it has a keel on the bottom of about 18 inches. so it will afford us about three feet, 2 1/2 to three feet of protection from the top of the surface. it s rigid so it will stay in place. a new tool is hitting the beach in grand isle, louisiana. sand sifters usually clean beaches of cigarettes and bottle caps. other debris like that. now they re being used for oil. they pick up oil-soaked sand, sift it and leave behind clean sand. it was used to clean up oil in saudi arabia, but the first time they ve been used on american soil. sand sifting. never been used before here. sinking barges.
estuaries. area leaders hope to sink them alongside one another at major passes where gulf waters flow into coastal louisiana. orange beach is taking matters into its own hands. crews are now working on a $4.6 million steel pipe boom plan. it will float. it has a vain on the top of about 18 inches. it has a keel on the bottom of about 18 inches. so it will afford us about three feet, 2 1/2 to three feet of protection from the top of the surface. it s rigid so it will stay in place. a new tool is hitting the beach in grand isle, louisiana. sand sifters usually clean beaches of cigarettes and bottle caps. now they re being used for oil. they pick up oil-soaked sand, sift it and leave behind clean sand. it was used to clean up oil in saudi arabia, but the first time they ve been used on american soil. sand sifting. never been used before here. sinking barges.
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