![]() Quaiff said at this moment in time, the municipality’s primary concern is for the protection of the Picton-Bloomfield drinking water system. “Given the proximity of the submerged vessel to the Picton-Bloomfield water intake, and the potential for contaminants to enter the water during the upcoming salvage phase, the risk- although believed to be quite low-was deemed sufficiently high to engage the emergency Control Group.” “According to the County’s Emergency Plan and provincial regulation, the emergency Control Group can be activated when there is heightened threat to the well-being of the community,” said mayor Quaiff. The group has been on high alert since Friday and is made up of mayor Robert Quaiff, CAO James Hepburn, Commission of Engineering, Development and Works Robert McAuley, Fire Chief Scott Manlow, the Ontario Provincial Police, public health representative and councillor Barry Turpin, County clerk Kim Whyte, social services and communications coordinator Lisa McLennan. In a press release on Tuesday, the County of Prince Edward stated in response to the recovery efforts mayor Robert Quaiff has activated the municipality’s Emergency Control Group as a precautionary measure. Both tanks are self-contained and inside the machinery space. There is believed to be approximately 1,200 litres of diesel and 100 litres of hydraulic fluid. Approximately 30 litres of substance released is being contained by pollution control equipment, and is expected to evaporate. There were no injuries and no loss of pollutants except for two five gallon (19 litre) buckets which were on the barge deck at the time. ![]() According to McKeil Marine, the company that chartered the barge, it was intended to be used as a temporary dock and work platform. On Friday, a barge owned by Galcon Marine partially sank while docked at Picton Terminals. Recovery efforts of a partially submerged barge in the Picton Harbour continue Tuesday with a comprehensive focus on containment of pollutants including the activation of the municipality’s Emergency Control Group. (Photo: Dave Tugwood/Facebook- Save Picton Bay) The above picture is one of Galcon Marine’s Link Belt cranes.A barge partially sank near Picton Terminals in Picton Bay Friday. 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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