BIODIVERSITY-SENSITIVE AREAS
The authorities said in a separate joint statement on Monday evening that the next phase of clean-up operations has commenced, involving the additional deployment of various booms and oil recovery systems.
About 1,500m of booms have already been deployed, with plans to send out another 1,600m over the next few days.
These will be placed at designated sites to support the containment of accumulated oil to facilitate the clean-up operation off the beaches and shorelines, said the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), National Environment Agency (NEA), National Parks Board (NParks), Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC), Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and PUB.
The authorities also noted that some of the oil was seen off Changi on Monday.
Additional booms will be installed as a preventive measure off Changi East.
A Current Buster system, a vessel-deployed specialised oil floating containment and recovery device, will also be deployed on Tuesday off the Changi Exhibition Centre as a “pre-emptive measure”.
The Current Buster consists of a boom with a skirt that extends into the water to corral and collect the oil on the surface. It is capable of accumulating up to five tonnes of oil in one craft-load before discharging.
