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Islands' Oil Spill Association
San Juan County, WA

Islands' Oil Spill Association (IOSA) provides a first line of response to oil spills in the San Juan Islands.
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About IOSA

Our Mission: Islands' Oil Spill Association's mission is to provide a prompt, first line of response and prevention for oil spills in the San Juan Islands and surrounding waters.

IOSA is a unique community-based, private non-profit organization that provides a range of response services including initial assessment, containment and cleanup and oiled wildlife rescue. Since 1988 IOSA has been on-call 24 hours a day throughout the year and, as of December 31, 2005, has been paged for 410 spill reports in and around the San Juan Islands and for wildlife rescue services in 3 major spills in other parts of Washington State. Out of the total, 85 have involved ongoing oil and hazardous material/debris recovery, containment, booming, stopping or removing the source of oil and/or wildlife rescue.

Common spill sources include vessel groundings, collisions, sinkings and leaks from damaged fuel tanks. 354 community members have volunteered their time to train and be available as responders in San Juan County. For each spill to date IOSA responders have met the need for prompt assessment and response.

 IOSA responders learning about caring for oiled wildlife
IOSA responders learning to take care of oiled wildlife.
 
Services: What do we provide?
  • Quick spill assessment
  • Oil containment, exclusion, diversion
  • Wildlife search and rescue, primary care
  • Spill source removal
  • Oil and oiled debris recovery
  • Disposal
  • Support and safety functions
  • Prevention
  • Hands-on training and practice drills for community members
  • HAZWOPER training (HAZWOPER is an abbreviation of Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response)

 Grounded vessel surrounded by containment boom.
Containment of grounded vessel near Orcas Island, 2002. Boom was deployed to contain leaking fuel and oil was cleaned up from the vessel's engine room.

Would you like to help clean up
or prevent spills in the San Juan Islands?
Here is how do it:

Report a spill:
  • Call San Juan County Sheriff's office at 360-378-4151 and ask the dispatcher to page the IOSA coordinator.
  • Please provide your contact info so the coordinator can get back to you for more detailed information.
  • Train to be a responder
  • Become a member
  • Donate money, make in-kind contributions, contribute to boat fund
  • Permit access to shoreline from your property: In the event of a spill, we may have need of shoreline access to observe the spill in progress and/or bring equipment to the shore. If your property overlooks the water and lacks physical access to the shore you can still be very helpful just by giving us permission to observe the spill. 

Click here for more details about how you can help.

 

 IOSA responders haul containment boom out of the water and on to equipment trailer..
IOSA responders loading boom into the Orcas Island equipment trailer during training on Shaw Island and Orcas Island.

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