![]() ![]() However, in testing the surface water, Wheeler says ministry staff have found “the presence of a mixture consistent with that of a heavier petroleum product, along with that of a diesel fuel.” That means that once the water intake is running again, the health unit can remove the boil water advisory. Results from the plant are clean, and show the water is safe to drink. The ministry has been testing both water from the bay and the water treatment plant. ![]() They are also working with the Canadian Coast Guard and Environment and Climate Change Canada to monitor the water in the bay. Gary Wheeler, speaking for the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) says the ministry has been working with the municipality to ensure the water treatment plant has safe, potable water. ![]() Now, several organizations are involved in monitoring the water, both in the bay and at the water treatment plan. However, she encourages the public to report any sightings of potential oil spills, such as a sheen on the water, as some members of the public had described, by calling the Coast Guard’s reporting network at 1-80. The first organization to respond was the Canadian Coast Guard, who were informed early Friday morning of the incident.Ĭarol Launderville, representing the Coast Guard, says her department holds to the estimate that 20 – 30 litres of liquid were spilled, a relatively minor volume. So is the team from the Eastern Canada Response Corporation (ECRC), hired by McKeil Marine- the company that had chartered the barge-to clean up the spill. The majority of the oily liquid the barge had released when it sank late in the evening of Thursday, March 23, more than a week earlier, had either been cleaned up, evaporated or dissipated, the remaining fluid no longer appearing on the water’s surface, although trace amounts can still be found mixed into the water of the bay. On Sunday, after it was righted, temporarily patched and emptied of fuel, a tugboat pulled the 28- metre-long, 58-year-old Pitts Carillon, a small barge owned by Galcon Marine, out of Picton Bay and to its home port in Toronto. The above picture is one of Galcon Marine’s Link Belt cranes.The barge is gone, but there’s still work to do A spokesman for the ministry of labour said that the boom was being stripped down at the time.Įither way the result is tragic When we have more information on what actually occurred we will update this article. We understand that the crane, which was working for Clipper Construction, which trades as Coreydale Contracting, and was working on a soil retaining barrier for a new apartment block being built near the water.Ī police constable on the site said that the man had climbed out of the crane to look at the boom, when it overturned and landed on top of him, pinning him to the ground. The company has a number of lattice crawler cranes, mostly Koehring and Link Belt units fitted with draglines or clamshells with capacitis of up to 50 tons. ![]() According to local news reports the man worked with Galcon Marine, who it is assumed, owned the crane. A crane operator died yesterday in Whitby Ontario, Canada, after his crane overturned on top of him. ![]()
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