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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Tuesday, December 11, 2012 INCIDENTS Eastern Areas Recovery Operations Scaling Back Due To Significant Progress Hurricane recovery operations continue in the New York area under the oversight of the Western IMT. At present, there are 194 National Park Service employees supporting the recovery efforts, a reduction from 320 on December 6th and a high of 546 last month. Due to stabilization and repair progress in affected park units, the incident response is being scaled back. Today's report follows (if a park or site is not listed, that's because there's no new information to report): Ellis Island - Debris cleanup and heavy equipment repair continues. The elevator is inoperable because of four feet of water in the shaft. Fire Island - Residents have returned to their quarters at the Lighthouse Annex. Debris removal at Sailor's Haven continues. Stabilization efforts continue at the Patchogue maintenance garage. Gateway - Resource advisors continue working on mapping wrecked boats and coordinating upcoming boat removals. The following actions were also reported at park units: Fort Tilden - Road and trail operations, building utilities repairs, and sand redistribution continued. A contractor has begun mold mitigation at residences. Jacob Riis Park - Road and trail clearing and sand redistribution continued - the project is now 80% complete. The process of putting clean sand back onto the beach is 15% complete. Work continues on boarding the windows and doors of the bathhouse. Great Kills - Debris removal operations and sand redistribution continued. The project is about 10% complete. Fort Wadsworth - Debris removal continued at Seabee Park. Eight to ten loads of debris are being hauled out each day; 204 loads are being hauled in daily. Sandy Hook - Debris removal from roadsides and beach plazas continued, as did replacement of oil tank gauges and the construction and placement of shutters on exposed windows and doors on buildings at Fort Hancock. Work also continued on repairing the main waterline. A contractor is clearing the wastewater treatment plant and the project is about 40% complete. More information on the response can be found at these websites: Hurricane response and recovery - A HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/waso/waso.cfm?prg=1168&lv=3" webpage with current information on the NPS response to Hurricane Sandy. Resource needs shopping list - A HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custommenu.cfm?lv=3&prg=1168&id=10935" ”shopping list” HYPERLINK "http://classicinside.nps.gov/documents/SHOPPING%20LIST%2011-5.pdf" of incident management team positions that still need to be filled, updated daily. Hurricane Sandy relief fund - E&AA has set up a HYPERLINK "http://www.eparks.com/_" relief fund web page where you can make donations in support of employees who were affected by the storm. Facebook - A HYPERLINK "https://www.facebook.com/HurricaneResponseNPS" Facebook page managed by the IMT with updates on the response. Twitter - A HYPERLINK "http://mobile.twitter.com/NPS_Sandy?" Twitter page managed by the IMT with updates on the response. Flickr - A HYPERLINK "http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandyresponsenps/sets/72157631954446291/" Flickr page managed by the IMT with images of the response. [Jason Wickersty, Incident Information Officer] Glen Canyon NR Man Sentenced For Credit Card Theft On November 13th, Utah resident S.B.W. pled guilty in an Arizona Superior Court to theft of a credit card, a class five felony offense, and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, three years' probation, and 50 hours of community restitution. In July of 2010, S.B.W. stole approximately $2,000 to $3,000 worth of property from his girlfriend's concession-managed apartment in the Wahweap District of Glen Canyon NRA. The stolen property included her credit card, which he used to make several purchases in Arizona and Utah (where charges are still pending). As an additional term of his probation, S.B.W. will have to obtain employment and pay restitution to his victim. Ranger Scott Larson took the original theft report before transferring the case to the Investigative Services Branch. OTHER NEWS The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/): Office of Communications - The Office of Communications has released the National Park Service's 2012 holiday video. Sixty-two parks answered the call for footage; fifteen parks are featured in the final video, Here's a link to it: HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOyoyAL2wk" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOyoyAL2wk Environmental Quality Division - On September 24th, a memo was issued by the Washington Office closing all 460 PWE and any equivalent FBMS functional area accounts as of September 30th. Guidance is provided on the new procedures now in place. Denver Service Center - Samantha Richardson has been selected to serve as chief of staff for Denver Service Center. She begins her new position on December 17th. Lake Mead NRA - After 24 years at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Bruce Lenon, the park's aircraft pilot, is hanging up his flat hat and his NPS wings on December 29th. Everglades NP - Keith Whisenant, deputy superintendent for Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks, has announced his retirement on December 20th 29th after 40 years of service with the National Park Service. * * * * The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov). --- ### --- |