White House Has Time-Line Of It's Response To Oil Spill (Lots of info)...

[WillyT]

At the end of each day they post the totals for response vessels, personnel, chemicals used, etc...

From day 1, (night of) 4/20/10

Assets Deployed To Date

Total response vessels: Two Coast Guard cutters

Total response aircraft: Four helicopters and one rescue plane

From Day 7, 4/27/10

Assets Deployed To Date-20 Additional Vessels Arrive

Total response vessels: approximately 50
Boom deployed: 29,280 feet
Boom available: 80,900 feet
Oily water recovered: 260,652 gallons
Dispersant used: 29,140 gallons
Dispersant available: 119,734 gallons
Overall personnel responding: more than 1,000

From Day 14, 5/4/10

Assets To Date—20 More Vessels and 4,000 Responders Arrive

Total response vessels: nearly 200
Boom deployed: 367,881 feet
Boom available: more than 1 million feet
Oily water recovered: more than 1 million gallons
Dispersant used: nearly 160,000 gallons
Dispersant available: 230,000 gallons
Overall personnel responding: approximately 7,500

From Day 21, 5/11/10

DOD Transports Boom and Equipment from Alaska

Following approval by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for assistance, several commercial aircraft and numerous C-17 aircraft commenced missions to transport 150,000 feet of BP pollution response boom and approximately 250 short tons of Navy salvage equipment commenced movement from Anchorage, Alaska, to New Orleans.

Total response vessels: more than 460
Boom deployed: approximately 1.4 million feet (regular plus sorbent boom)
Boom available: approximately 1.5 million feet (regular plus sorbent boom)
Oily water recovered: approximately 4 million gallons
Dispersant used: approximately 430,000 gallons
Dispersant available: more than 120,000 gallons
Overall personnel responding: approximately 13,000

Latest info from site, Day 24, 5/14/10

Teams Continue Shoreline Cleanup and Assessments

SCAT teams surveyed 19 miles of Dauphin Island, Ala., and the Jackson County shoreline with minimal tarball findings. An additional five teams were deployed to Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge (Ala.) to recover tarballs.

Total response vessels: nearly 560
Containment boom deployed: more than 1.2 million feet
Containment boom available: approximately 200,000 feet
Sorbent boom deployed: more than 380,000 feet
Sorbent boom available: more than 870,000 feet
Oily water recovered: more than 5 million gallons
Dispersant used: more than 517,000 gallons
Dispersant available: more than 250,000 gallons
Overall personnel responding: approximately 17,000

Link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/05/ongoing-administration-wide-response-deepwater-bp-oil-spill

:wow:

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Don't Forget 27 New Wells Approved Since The Spill

26 of which had environmental assessments waived.

Dick Cheney is smiling today.