Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing great.

I wanted everyone to know that SW Florida's beaches are free of oil.. NO OIL....... It would appear from what I am reading and watching that SW Florida may be spared from the oil. I have several Realtor Friends who watch the oil situation as well and we all compare the information provided to us. Below you will see some information from a Realtor Friend of mine David Haynes of Tarpon Realty, Inc. He is in the Charlotte County / Boca Grande area. Please also see the attached file to view. It is virus free do not worry.

Check out this link first...

http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/ofs/viewer.shtml?-gulfmex-cur-0-large-rundate=20100614

It shows models of the loop current. Once again it looks as though SW Florida may be spared. No one knows. I do feel for the areas and people that are being affected this is a very sad, sad situation.

I just want everyone to know at this time our waters and beaches are free of oil and it looks like it will stay this way.

I will keep you update on any new information. If you have anything to share, please feel free to send it my way.

Please see below...

Please see the regularly attached documents as well as the info below. Many of you have been getting inquiries as to what DEP and other agencies have been doing as it relates to various water quality and sediment/silt sampling. The following website provides information including maps on what has been done in advance of a Natural Resources Damage Assessment. Visit www.NRDATA.org for more details.

You will also find an executive summary of offshore product, info from BP on the Q4000 as well as the Tar Ball Report.

We learned today that BP has pledged $20 Billion for businesses claims in the Gulf Coast region affected by the spill. You can read the BP press release at http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7062966

Cameron Cameron Cooper Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Situation Report # 49

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 1200 hrs EDT

Charlie Crist

Governor

David Halstead

State Coordinating Officer

Weather Summary:

Relatively weak winds (up to 10 knots), low seas (below 2 feet) and low rain chances are expected to continue through the next 3 days, which will be favorable for surface oil recovery operations. Winds are light and variable but are expected to turn west-southwesterly in the afternoons. A tropical wave in the central Atlantic has a 10% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours.

Current Situation:

Florida beaches are open.

Unified Area Command estimates release rate of oil from Deepwater Horizon at 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day. The containment dome is recovering approximately 15,000 barrels of oil and burning off millions of cubic feet of natural gas per day.

This event has been designated a Spill of National Significance.

Unified Area Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and spill response planning following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans.

More than 29,000 personnel are working the on and offshore response.

Oil-water mix recovered: approximately 21.1 million gallons

Response vessels available: more than 6,490

Response aircraft available: 95

Dispersant (in gallons): approximately 1,298,000 deployed

There is no planned use of dispersants in Florida waters.

Florida Specific:

Reconnaissance missions are ongoing. On June 14, as of noon, light sheen, streamers of weathered oil and tar balls were detected within five miles of Pensacola Pass.

On June 14, dime to five inch-sized tar balls and tar patties were found in widely scattered areas of Northwest Florida. The heaviest impacts have been seen from Escambia County to Santa Rosa County.

Perdido Pass and Pensacola Pass are being closed with the tide to prevent oil from entering inland waters. Boom will be deployed across each Pass at flood tide (incoming) and removed at ebb tide (outgoing).

Oil Containment Boom (in feet) total: 355,810 deployed in Florida.

Tier 1: 185,100 / Tier 2: 123,500 / Tier 3: 47,210

In accordance with established plans, protective booming, staging, and boom maintenance is being conducted along the coast from Escambia to Franklin.

302 vessels are deployed in Florida for the Vessels of Opportunity program.

302 Qualified Community Responders are actively working the cleanup efforts in the Florida Panhandle.

According to the NOAA oil plume model, the oil plume remains 62 miles from Mexico Beach and 240 miles from St. Petersburg, with non contiguous sheens and scattered tarballs closer. Coastal regions near and west of Panama City may experience shoreline impacts by Friday.

Scattered patches of sheen and tarballs remain in the Loop Current Ring. There is evidence that the Loop Current Ring has detached from the Loop Current, meaning that any scattered patches of sheen and tarballs will likely remain in the Loop Current Ring.

BP provided a $100,000 grant through a Memorandum of Understanding with Volunteer Florida to maintain a database for the registration of volunteers.

BP issued a $25 million block grant to Florida; first priority is booming. BP issued a second $25 million grant to Florida for a national tourism advertising campaign. BP issued another $25 million to Florida for the state’s preparedness and response efforts.

BP claims in Florida total 13,978 with approximately $11,248,856.44 paid.

The fishery failure declaration for the Gulf of Mexico includes Florida, providing impacted and eligible commercial fisheries the opportunity for federal support; it does not close fisheries.

Florida Information Lines:

The Florida Oil Spill Information Line (FOSIL) is available from 8am-6pm EDT daily for citizens’ questions at (888) 337-3569.

For general health/exposures information questions related to the oil spill, contact the Florida Poison Control Center at 1-888-337-3569.

Two public hotline numbers for oil spill investigation and cleanup:

Impacted Wildlife: (866) 557-1401

Oiled Shoreline: 1 (877) 2-SAVE-FL or #DEP for cellular devices

The Florida Department of State has established a hotline for archeological, historical preservation, and tribal lands that may be impacted by the Deepwater Horizon incident: (850) 245-6530.

Florida Information Websites:

Volunteer registration: www.VolunteerFlorida.org and click “Register to Help”

Health/environmental advisories: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/deepwaterhorizon/health.htm

State sampling data: www.nrdata.org

GATOR web mapping application: http://map.floridadisaster.org/gator/

State Actions:

State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) is at a Level 1 (Full), operating from 0700 to 1800 EDT, with Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) as the lead agency.

Governor’s Executive Orders 10-99, 10-100, and 10-106 declared a state of emergency for identified counties along the Florida coast.

Governor’s Executive Order 10-101 established the Gulf Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force, which will facilitate efforts by Florida businesses and industries to recover from the loss of commerce and revenues due to the oil spill.

Governor Charlie Crist activated Florida’s Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Program to provide emergency, short-term loans to established small businesses in 26 designated counties.

Conducting daily conference calls with county and emergency management partners, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator, and various Unified Commands.

SERT Personnel - Location Personnel

Mobile Unified Command,

Forward-State Emergency Response Team 22

Florida Peninsula Command, Miami 5

Area Command in Robert, Louisiana 2

St. Petersburg Branch 1

Escambia 1

Santa Rosa 1

A 5-7 member Federal Resource Coordinator (FRC) team from FEMA is assisting the State Emergency Response Team (SERT) with streamlining financial reimbursement processing.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) issued a partial harvesting closure of saltwater fish and marine vertebrates (does not apply to oysters, clams, and mussels). This closure covers state waters from the Alabama state line east to the Pensacola Beach water tower (23 miles east and out 9 nautical miles from coastline) from 6/14/10 until modified by a subsequent FWC executive order. Recreational catch and release is allowed.

A SERT Toxicological Data Analysis Cell is now located at the SEOC to provide consistent scientific analysis and assessment of collected data sampling to inform local and state decision making.

The Agency for Workforce Innovation and Regional Workforce Boards are identifying and filling jobs related to the oil spill: 5,086 positions advertised, 10,085 applicants referred and 538 individuals employed.

27 Florida National Guard (FLNG) personnel on duty; 5 plans personnel are working on scene at the SEOC.

13,790 volunteers have registered to respond to Deepwater Horizon.

Business, Industry, and Economic Development has launched a national radio and print advertising campaign for Florida tourism.

Conducting daily reconnaissance flights and shoreline patrol from Escambia to Gulf counties for impact. Real time reconnaissance reports are being entered into GATOR.

36 oiled birds have been recovered by FWC to date, 2 were released.

The Boom Coordination Cell continues to coordinate additional boom requests. The Innovative Technology Cell continues to assess alternative clean-up technologies suggested by the public and stakeholders.

The Small Business Administration has issued an Economic Injury Disaster Loan Declaration for the State of Florida. Disaster Loan Outreach Centers are open in 8 counties.

Loan Applications

Issued: 331 Accepted: 72 Declined: 14 Approved: 2

Loan amount approved: $255,000.00

Local States of Emergency

Bay: Expires on 6/17/10

Dixie: Expires on 6/17/10

Escambia: Expires on 6/18/10

Franklin: Expires on 6/21/10

Gulf: Expires on 6/21/10

Okaloosa: Concurrent with State

Santa Rosa: Expires on 6/18/10

Sarasota: Expires on 6/21/10

Wakulla: Expires on 6/21/10

Walton: Expires on 6/18/10 County EOC Activations

Bay, Level 2 (Partial)

Escambia, Level 2 (Partial)

Gulf, Level 2 (Partial)

Okaloosa, Level 2 (Partial)

Santa Rosa, Level 2 (Partial)

Wakulla, Level 2 (Partial)

Franklin, Level 2 (Partial)

Federal Information Websites:

NOAA GeoPlatform, response management application: http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/

Snapshot Report # 22

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 0900 hrs EDT

Charlie Crist

Governor

David Halstead

State Coordinating Officer

Mobile Unified Command Boom Operations:

Tier 1
Proposed/Need 148,475
Deployed185,100
Staged 56,050
Shortage 0
Percent Under 0%

Tier 2
Proposed/Need 282,600
Deployed 123,500
Shortage 159,100
Percent Under 56.30%

Total
Proposed/Need 431,075
Deployed 308,600
Staged 56,050
Shortage 159,100
Percent Under 36.90%

*Changes in FL GRP site numbers as well as boom required will be changing pending approval of Unified Command **

County Contracted Boom Tier 3 Totals
County: Escambia
Deployed 20,000
Proposed: N/A
Staged

County: Santa Rosa
Deployed 10,260
Proposed: N/A

County: Okaloosa
Deployed 16,950
Proposed: N/A
Staged 19,550

County: Walton
Proposed: N/A

County: Bay
Proposed: N/A
Staged: 78,900

County: Gulf
Proposed: N/A
Staged: 11,900

County: Franklin
Proposed: 139,800
Staged: 70,000

County: Wakulla
Deployed: N/A
Proposed: 71,500

County: Jefferson
Proposed: N/A
Proposed: 18,835

County: Taylor
Proposed: N/A
Staged: N/A
Staged: N/A

Total:
Deployed: 47,210
Proposed: 230,135
Staged: 180,350

Vessel Assets Deployed:
Type
Off-Shore Skimmer
Near Shore Skimmer
Total


Working
79 (7 are skimmers)
25 (no breakdown on types of vessels)
104

Staged
7 (In area of Op.)
0
7

Ordered 5
0
5

Notes
TF702 Off Shore Pensacola Area - TF704 South of Ft. Walton Beach - TF705 Moving to "stand-by" in Key West
TF-1 Pensacola Pass - TF4 Perdido Pass

Vessels of Opportunity (VOO):

VOO Ordered/Deployed

In-Shore/Contracted/Assets
Pensacola: 75
Destin: 200
Panama City: 153
Port St. Joe: 100
Apalachicola: 100
Total: 628

Near Shore/Contracted Assets
Pensacola: 40
Destin: 100
Panama City: 60
Port St. Joe: 50
Apalachicola: 50
Total: 300

Total/Contracted
Pensacola: 155
Destin: 300
Panama City: 213
Port St. Joe: 150
Apalachicola: 150
Total: 928

Deployed Contract Assets: 302 - 2 using Sorbent, Snare & Containment

County EOC Activations:

County - Activation Level
Bay - 2
Escambia - 2
Gulf - 2
Okaloosa - 2
Santa Rosa - 2
Wakulla - 2
Franklin - 2

Small Business Administration Loan Applications:
Issued - 331
Accepted - 72
Declined - 14
Approved - 2
Loan amount approved: $255,000.00

Clean-up Teams:
Team - Personnel - Staging Location
Emergency Response Team (USCG) - 22 - Pensacola
Emergency Response Team (USCG)- 3 - Panama City
Emergency Response Team (USCG)- 2 - Port St. Joe
Total - 2

(BP) Contractor Personnel - Personnel - Staging Location
Beach cleanups - 1047 - Pensacola, Panama City
Qualified Community Responders - 302 - Pensacola, Panama City
Gross Vessel Decon - 27 - Pensacola, Panama City
Boom Operations - 541 - Pensacola, Panama City
Total - 1944

SCAT Teams:
Team ID - Personnel - County
SCAT 4 - 5 - Escambia
SCAT 6 - 5 - Santa Rosa
SCAT 9 - 5 - Gulf
SCAT 10 - 4 - Bay

Recon Teams:
County - ATV's Staged - AV's Deployed
Escambia - 0 - 7
Franklin - 0 -1
Santa Rosa - 0 - 1
Okaloosa - 0 - 5
Walton - 0 - 4
Bay - 0 - 5
Gulf - 0 - 1
On Stand-By - 2 - 0
Total - 24

County or Agency
Resources Staged
Resources Deployed
Walton
0 – Command Bus
1 – Command Bus
FWC
0 – Boats
38 – Boats
FWC & Civil Air Patrol
1 – Planes
2 – Planes
FWC
0 – Helicopters
3 – Helicopter
FLNG
0 – Planes
1 – Planes
FLNG
0 – Helicopter
1 – Helicopter

BP Reported Product Recovered:
Staging area - Product Collected - Amounty Collected
Pensacola - Trash and Product Debris - 15.23 tons
Panama City - Trash and Product Debris - 1.46 tons
Total - 16.69 tons

BP Claims:

Updated detailed BP Claims report can be found in EM Constellation*

BP Claims in Florida - Claims - Approx. Paid

Grand Total - 13,978 - $11,248,856.44

One claimant has one claim which may have multiple events*

Recovered Oiled Wildlife:
06/16/10
Recovered alive

- 9

Released - 0
Died or euthanized - 4
Still in Rehab - 18
Recovered dead -

Total #
Recovered Alive

- 36

Released - 2
Died or Euthanized - 16
Recovered dead - 18

Does not include marine mammals or turtles. *Primarily northern gannets and brown pelicans

See the consolidated wildlife report updated by noon each day:

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doctype/2931/55963

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