Oil-absorbent booms have been deployed off biodiversity-sensitive areas at Chek Jawa Wetlands at Pulau Ubin, Coney Island Park and Pasir Ris Park as preventive measures.
A drone-captured photo of vessels towing the Current Buster system to capture oil spill off Labrador Nature Reserve on Jun 17, 2024. The authorities said on Monday that 1,600m of booms will be installed over the next few days at designated sites to support the containment of the oil and facilitate the restoration of the affected beaches and shorelines.that have been put in place since the oil spill on Friday when a dredger hit a bunker vessel at Pasir Panjang Terminal.
"Some of the oil has been seen off Changi Naval Base today. We are pre-emptively booming up Chek Jawa Wetlands at Pulau Ubin, as well as bio-sensitive areas at Pasir Ris Park and Coney Island," wrote Minister for National Development Desmond Lee in a Facebook post on Monday. A Current Buster system, a vessel-deployed specialised oil floating containment and recovery device, will be deployed on Tuesday off the Changi Exhibition Centre as a"pre-emptive measure".
These are in addition to the booms that have already been partially deployed at Tanjong Beach and those that have been fully deployed at Sentosa Cove and ONE15 Marina Sentosa Cove. Over at Labrador Nature Reserve, an oil slick has adhered to the rock bunds along the Promenade area, with an oil sheen observed in the surrounding waters.
It has deployed two Current Buster systems. One was sent off Labrador Nature Reserve to collect weathered oil while the other system was deployed off Bedok Jetty. Oil washed up along a section of East Coast Park on Jun 15, 2024, after a vessel hit a bunker the day before at Pasir Panjang Terminal. The air quality at the affected areas also remained"well within safe levels", with NEA conducting daily air quality tests along Sentosa, East Coast Park and Labrador Nature Reserve since Saturday.
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