Current Operations and Ongoing Response

TODAY: Saturday, MAY 29
The Unified Area Command continues to work closely together with the Responsible Party and Federal, State, local and tribal partners in anticipating requirements, identifying response options, and rapidly providing response support.

The following is a synopsis of our daily response efforts:
Total active response vessels: more than 1400
Containment boom deployed: nearly 1.83 million feet
Containment boom available: nearly 390,000 feet
Sorbent boom deployed: more than 1.83 million feet
Sorbent boom available: more than 1.27 million feet
Total boom deployed: more than 3.66 million feet (regular plus sorbent boom)
Total boom available: more than 1.66 million feet (regular plus sorbent boom)
Oily water recovered: more than 12.1 million gallons
Surface dispersant used: more than 720,000 gallons
Subsea dispersant used: more than 180,000 gallons
Total dispersant used: nearly 910,000 gallons
Dispersant available: more than 450,000 gallons
Overall personnel responding: more than 20,000



17 staging areas are in place and ready to protect sensitive shorelines. These areas include:
Dauphin Island, Ala.
Orange Beach, Ala.
Theodore, Ala.
Panama City, Fla.
Pensacola, Fla.
Port St. Joe, Fla.
St. Marks, Fla.
Amelia, La.
Cocodrie, La.
Grand Isle, La.
Shell Beach, La.
Slidell, La.
St. Mary, La.
Venice, La.
Biloxi, Miss.
Pascagoula, Miss.
Pass Christian, Miss.

For updated NOAA trajectory maps, click here.
Hotlines:

• For information about the response effort, visit www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com.
• To contact the Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center, call (985) 902-5231.
• To volunteer, or to report oiled shoreline, call (866) 448-5816. Volunteer opportunities can also be found here.
• To submit your vessel as a vessel of opportunity skimming system, or to submit alternative response technology, services, or products, call 281-366-5511.
• To report oiled wildlife, call (866) 557-1401. Messages will be checked hourly.
• For information about validated environmental air and water sampling results, visit www.epa.gov/bpspill.
• For National Park Service updates about potential park closures, resources at risk, and NPS actions to protect vital park space and wildlife, visit http://www.nps.gov/aboutus/oil-spill-response.htm.
• For Fish and Wildlife Service's updates about response along the Gulf Coast and the status of national wildlife refuges, visit http://www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/.
• To file a claim, or report spill-related damage, call BP’s helpline at (800) 440-0858. A BP fact sheet with additional information is available here. For those who have already pursued the BP claims process and are not satisfied with BP’s resolution, can call the Coast Guard at (800) 280-7118.  More information about what types of damages are eligible for compensation under the Oil Pollution Act as well as guidance on procedures to seek that compensation can be found here. 

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