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SHORE ZONE MICRO-BARGE CONCEPT FOR OIL AND DEBRIS STORAGE AND TRANSPORT This presentation introduces an innovative oil and debris response solution - the Shore Zone Micro-barge. This small yet functional barge is designed to fill a response gap in recovering trapped but still mobile, heavy oil within a coastline’s shore zone and other challenging locations (rivers, wetlands, ice, mangroves). It also serves as a resource for debris recovery (nurdles and Styrofoam). Its features and functions support non-emergency, day-to-day community businesses such as aquaculture, shore debris cleanup programs, scientific monitoring, and more. Spilled heavy oil or small debris is often only partially recovered offshore due to various circumstances. Unrecovered product is then left to strand on shores. A community may engage their small vessels to recover the mobile oil before stranding with hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and buckets —whether they are hired to do so or self-directed. Recovering trapped, mobile heavy oil along shores and floating debris is a worldwide problem, as it is messy, inefficient, and unsafe. Collected wastes are often subject to multiple transfers from site to final disposal.  This doesn’t have to be the case. The Shore Zone Micro-barge concept recognizes these problems and is part of the solution by offering a practical storage and transport resource.  This presentation shares the Shore Zone Micro-barge concept and invites your feedback. The aim is to validate the issues, challenges, and solutions I've identified and welcome value-added suggestions. The presentation is available on YouTube (20 minutes).  https://lnkd.in/gXVSekcg  The PowerPoint presentation is on my website at: EnviroEmerg.ca The concept of an SZ Micro-barge and its design/specifications are intellectual property and cannot be subject to patent or disclosure without written permission from the author: Stafford Reid—EnviroEmerg Innovations Ltd

EnviroEmerg Presentation SZ Micro Barge for Oil and Debris Storage and Transport

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