Looks like there has been some cleanup action in the narrow drainage canal near the CWRP.
Someone had left his crude oil stained gloves on the footpath. Perhaps he thought he was going to come back for it.
The orange boom was still there but it looks like it is beginning to develop tears and cracks. The boom itself did not seem as if it would be effective against a layer of crude as the waves were easily pushing water over the top.
The absorbent booms were still in the canal and these seemed to collect various bits of crude oil coated debris which got washed all over when the tide returned.
Some parts of the canal walls seemed like someone had scrubbed the wall with a sponge. Indeed there was a sponge like fabric which had been left behind near the canal walkway.
Other places looked like someone had used a high pressure water-jet. This left distinctive sharp edge water scrapping marks.
And some spots showed that the crude that had been on the walls was now on the bottom. Like someone had sprayed something to dissolve the crude and it all flowed down to stain the bottom of the canal. Pity the residue was not mopped up somehow.
The returning tide seemed to release some oil from the absorbent booms with each crashing wave.
Generally, the smell of the crude was much less noticeable than before.
The wide canal near the NeWater plant still showed a sheen at various spots. The pic below shows the canal wall heavily stained earlier by crude oil slick and the movement of the absorbent boom which was still tied across the canal had rubbed some of the stain higher up the wall.
The fish in the canal did not seem affected by the sheen.
The rubbish seen earlier at Site 8 had mostly gone....perhaps brought out by the tides over the week or cleaned up subsequently by NEA contractors.
Moving on to Site 7, there was an accumulation of a pile of yellow trash bags which seemed to contain plastic bottles and crude oil coated flotsam wood. Looks like NEA had organised another cleanup during the week. Fantastic!
Also, all the huge white plastic bags filled with crude oil soaked debris had been cleared from the corner but there was a large stain on the carpark floor on the inside of the fence.
A few fishermen lined up along the seawall fronting the ferry terminal. However, there was still some residual brown gunk floating and this gave off the strong unmistakable smell of the crude oil. The fishermen did not seem concerned with fishing so near the small sliver of brown gunk nor the smell emanating from the gunk.
brown crude residue in the water off the ferry terminal seawall
Here is a videoclip of the residual slick :
Further down at East Coast Parkway, there was the distinctive smell of crude oil in the bays fronting and near the East Coast Sea Sports Club. The sand which had been disturbed by beach users showed the unbearable brownness of being a former crude oil slick now since globuled up by dispersants. Looks like each successive wave action will cover up the brown stuff for someone to kick it up later. This will take a very long time to 'disappear'.
Here is a videoclip of the shore :
There was a nice gentleman windsurfer who had spent a few minutes of his time clearing a stretch of shore of plastic material and styrofoam and put them into 4 neat piles for clearance by the park cleaners. We need more people like this chap!
one of the four piles with the surfer in the background on the oily sand
At Bedok jetty, the beach adjacent to the jetty also showed signs of the brown stuff mixed in the sand.
My nose started to twitch again near the Cable-Ski Park past the Lagoon Hawker Centre. There was more of the brown stuff in the water just outside the Cable-Ski Park bridge.
Looks like the oil will remain on or 'in' the beach for some time more. Meantime, if you do go into the water....don't swallow! ...and bring a bar of soap to wash off that 'natural' radiating glow!
