ROGERS CITY BARGE; Lake Huron

Lake Huron | 1988-Oct-27

Initial Notification: Calcium Chloride potential spill Jay, We've dealt with a potential spill of calcium chloride today. Lt. Mike Smith (906) 635-3220 called about a barge that has turned turtle in Lake Huron 45 29.8N, 083 52.3 W. It has 4000 tons of 42% calcium chloride onboard and is in danger of sinking in 135 ft of water, about 2 miles offshore. The owner wants to dump the load of CaCl in order to save the barge. The CG wanted to know what the env. inpacts would be if they did dump the load. After conferring with Jacqui and Tim Riley with RPI we gave Lt. Smith the following recommendations. 1) first option: don't dump the product 2) second option: if they did have to dump the product to save the barge: it would create a locshort txic problem for the critters, very low if any mortality. Lt. Smith said they would try not to let them dump the load. USCG district 9.