Mississippi Demolition Company Leads Oil Clean-Up Efforts on Gulf Coast
Rhino Construction's demolition experience proves useful as it helps to spearhead cleanup efforts along 26 miles of Gulf Coast beaches.
Crews wearing safety equipment, such as glasses, reflective vests and boots, use tools to scoop up tarballs with as little sand as possible. Recovery technicians, though, found some of the tools to be very inefficient, so they got creative and made their own.
“Our foremen and recovery technicians developed several handling strategies and equipment to handle the oil with the least intrusion,” said Myers. “We wanted to leave as much sand as possible, and the five different things we were given to work with don’t work. We’re talking as low-tech as slotted spoons with handles to pick up tarballs.”
Once the tarballs are collected, crews safely transport them to landfills. Myers says his crews could be working through March or April of next year.
“We are going to be out there until we get it all cleaned up,” said Myers.
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