(Fron the NW Florida Daily News
)
Okaloosa County isn’t taking oil spill orders any more.
County commissioners voted unanimously to give their emergency management team the power to take whatever action it deems necessary to prevent oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from entering Choctawhatchee Bay through the East Pass. Commissioners gave the go-ahead to
- spend $200,000 to pay for an underwater “air curtain” designed to push oil up where it can be collected and $16,500 a day to operate and maintain it.
- deploy barges, weighted so that they’ll sit low in the water across the entrance to the pass.
- look into a slip curtain, another underwater oil-catching device.
Other info:
Booming has already been deployed inside the pass in a chevron formation. The Air Force spill team is working with local officials on this .
We will continue to monitor this situation and present relevant info as it pertain to this area.
