MECHANICAL PROTECTION GUIDELINES

This manual provides guidance to Area Committee members on how best to employ mechanical protection methods, such as booms and barriers, when designing workable protection strategies. It gives guidelines for identifying and prioritizing areas with sensitive habitats, fish and wildlife resources, and human-use resources, including sample formats for mapping and describing sensitive areas that optimize maps' operational usefulness. The manual describes the types of shoreline protection measures available to protect sensitive resources, emphasizing the limits and requirements of each protection measure. Guidance is also given for developing site-specific protection strategies, including equipment and logistics needed, operational constraints, and physical conditions at the site. This manual is a planning rather than a response tool.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Coast Guard, Elizabeth City, NC. National Strike Force. and Research Planning, Inc., Columbia, SC.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Ocean Service

  Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division
  Seattle, WA  United States 

  Coast Guard National Strike Force.

  Elizabeth City, NC  United States 

  Research Planning, Inc.

  Columbia, SC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Michel, J
  • Christopherson, S
  • Whipple, F
• Publication Date: 1994-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 95 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Booms (Lifting equipment); Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Ecology; Environment; Environmental monitoring; Environmental quality; Hazards and emergency operations; Manuals; Monitoring; Oil spill cleanup; Oil spills; Risk assessment; Shore protection; Water quality management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Site characterization
• Old TRIS Terms: Booms(Equipment); Emergency plans; Environmental transport; Oil retention booms
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00675755
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 4 1995 12:00AM