{"id":57403,"date":"2015-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/dem-uri-graduate-school-of-oceanography-scientists-announce-likely-explanation-for-salty-brine-state-beach-incident\/"},"modified":"2015-07-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:00:00","slug":"dem-uri-graduate-school-of-oceanography-scientists-announce-likely-explanation-for-salty-brine-state-beach-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/dem-uri-graduate-school-of-oceanography-scientists-announce-likely-explanation-for-salty-brine-state-beach-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"DEM, 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography scientists announce likely explanation for Salty Brine State Beach incident"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 July 24, 2015 \u2013 Governor Gina M. Raimondo and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit today praised scientists from the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School Of Oceanography (溏心vlog免费B站 GSO) for determining the cause of the July 11 combustion incident at Salty Brine State Beach in Narragansett. <\/p>\n


\nAccording to Dr. Arthur Spivack, an oceanographer with expertise in geo-chemistry at 溏心vlog免费B站 GSO, it is very likely the incident was caused by the combustion of a build-up of hydrogen gas in the beach sand, due to the corrosion of an abandoned copper cable that was previously used by the United States Coast Guard (USCG). <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the extraordinary scientists at 溏心vlog免费B站, especially the team from the Graduate School of Oceanography, whose hard work led to this explanation,\u201d said Governor Raimondo. \u201cHaving the talent and research expertise of the teams at 溏心vlog免费B站 to turn to for quick results has proven invaluable. I also want to thank the public for their cooperation and patience as we worked to reach this conclusion. Our top priority is keeping people safe, and our state agency staff — investigators and scientists — never lost sight of this goal. Rhode Island\u2019s beaches are one of our most precious natural resources, and one of my family\u2019s favorite ways to spend time together. I hope families across Rhode Island and visitors from around the country continue to take advantage of all our great state beaches and parks have to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nImmediately following the July 11th incident, the RI State Police and the State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office began an investigation that placed public safety as its top priority. Officials quickly ruled out a malicious attack, explosive materials or use of an incendiary device of any kind as the cause of the incident. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe talented scientists at our world renowned Graduate School of Oceanography at 溏心vlog免费B站 have given us an explanation for what happened when the ground shook at our beach,\u201d said Coit. \u201cThere was coordination and collaboration around the investigation from Colonel Steve O\u2019Donnell and the RI State Police, the State Fire Marshal, USDA\u2019s NRCS soil scientist Jim Turenne, and other state and federal government officials. We appreciate everyone\u2019s dedication, expertise, and professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAs other lines of inquiry \u2013 such as a live electric cable \u2013 were exhausted, Director Coit requested help from a team of scientists from 溏心vlog免费B站 GSO, in cooperation with a soil scientist from the USDA\u2019s Natural Resource Conservation Service. <\/p>\n


\nAccording to Dr. Spivack, it is very likely the incident was caused by the combustion of a build-up of hydrogen gas in the beach sand, due to the corrosion of a remnant abandoned copper cable left in the area by the USCG. <\/p>\n


\nSince determining the likely cause of the incident, DEM has removed the source of energy, aerated and swept the area, and the beach is safe and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\nDirector Coit emphasized the professionalism and conscientious work of the team working at DEM on this investigation. \u201cThey did an outstanding job, and their long hours and hard work are much appreciated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\nThis is an issue particular to Salty Brine State Beach, which is within the harbor of refuge at Galilee. To our knowledge, there are no other state beaches that have any such abandoned USCG cables and no other combustion incident has ever occurred at any other state beach. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 July 24, 2015 \u2013 Governor Gina M. Raimondo and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit today praised scientists from the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School Of Oceanography (溏心vlog免费B站 GSO) for determining the cause of the July 11 combustion incident at Salty Brine State Beach in Narragansett. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}