Protecting Puget Sound
Date: 6/7/2017 3:38:00 PM
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Vaughan Dill
BLAKE ISLAND, Wash. (NNS) -- Vessels belonging to the Navy (USN), the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Coast Guard (USCG) responded to calls as fuel from an unknown source poured into Puget Sound.
The current of the water put the large fuel spill on a northeastern trajectory and on a direct collision course with Blake Island and Tillicum Village, June 6.
This was the scenario that played out during a mock fuel spill known as the joint Boom Deployment and Spill Response Exercise, threatening wildlife, aquatic species, shoreline habitat and nearby infrastructure.
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