May 25, 2010
Keep Brevard Beautiful
Keep Brevard is partnering with the Brevard County Emergency Management Office to monitor our county shoreline for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. If you are one of the many citizens who love and care for our beautiful beaches we would like to recruit you to sign up and help.
We are assigning volunteers 1/2 mile sections of the beach to monitor on a daily basis. Volunteers will be assigned to a section/team nearest to where they live or as near as possible. Also, if you are interested in being a site captain to coordinate other volunteers for your section please let us know.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND FORM
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Brevard County Emergency Management
June 3, 2010
211 is Number to Call in Brevard Regarding Oil Spill
ROCKLEDGE, Fla. – "211" is the number to call in Brevard County with regard to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, whether volunteering to be a CoastWatch monitor; reporting oil sheen, tar balls, or other oil products; or reporting oily birds or wildlife.
Brevard County Emergency Management has partnered with Keep Brevard Beautiful and 211 Brevard to establish the CoastWatch program as the probability of oil reaching the Gulf Loop Current, and eventually Brevard County beaches, increases.
Through the CoastWatch program, managed by Keep Brevard Beautiful, volunteers are asked to monitor the shoreline on a daily basis. Much like law enforcement's CrimeWatch program, this encourages citizens to observe and report, but not to get physically involved. Citizens should not touch or handle oil products or wildlife.
All volunteers in the Coastwatch Program will be required to go through a one-hour training program. Brevard County Emergency Management is helping to develop the program with the Florida Peninsular Command, and the program will be ready next week.
The initial Brevard County meeting with state and federal agencies, local environmental groups and experts, and local volunteer groups on the status of the spill, projections of plume dispersal, contingency planning and local coordination efforts was held on May 6. Brevard County's Emergency Management and Natural Resource Management, Keep Brevard Beautiful, 211 Brevard and other key partners have continued to monitor the situation, share information and update plans.
Brevard County Office of Emergency Management participates in daily conference calls with all the members of the Florida Peninsular Command, and attended a meeting with the South East Florida Area Planning Committee on May 13th at Port Everglades. Brevard is part of the Miami Sector Command and the Jacksonville Sector Command, and Brevard County Emergency Management is the lead agency for coordination with both sector commands.
Currently, Brevard County's 72 miles of coastline are not affected by the oil spill.
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