Contractor Training 2023

Clean Rivers Cooperative maintains a robust training program that ensures contractors with whom we maintain service agreements with are trained and ready for response activities with our members and equipment. This program covers a wide range of training topics in a number of locations throughout the river system. While this training is focused on contractor readiness, these trainings may also offer benefit to Member personnel who are part of your internal spill teams.

Please reach out to Carl Boelter boelter@pdxmex.com if you are interested in participating in any of these training events. Initial dates are listed below, but may change due to operational consideration. An up to date calendar is maintained on our Membership page: https://cleanriverscooperative.com/members/ 

• January 11^th & 12^th –Technician Training – Clean Rivers Facility, Portland, Oregon
• January 26^th   – Technician Training – Deploy GRP-MC-0.1R on the Willamette River, OR
• February 9^th   – Mobile Communication Training – at Clean Rivers Cooperative Operations Facility Portland, Oregon
• February 14^th – Structure Scan on Next Gen and MFSA1/
• February 23^rd – Technician Training – Clean Rivers Operations Facility, Portland, Oregon 
• March 8th  – Deployment and Training of the Marco Belt Skimming Vessel & Zarling
• March 29^th – GRP Deployment 0.2 and 0.4 , leading edge air monitoring training
• April 5^th– Technician Training – Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery, Clatskanie, OR
• April 19^th – Technician Training—Tidewater barge# 4 Wauna, OR 
• May 10^th– Technician Training – Tongue Point, Astoria, OR 
• June: 15^th – MFSA1 Skimming + GRP
• June 21^st – Enhanced Skimming with Rapid Response Skimmer
• July 18^th  – Wildlife Equipment Deployment/set-up —at CRC Facility Portland, OR
• August 17^th – Current Buster deployment on the Multnomah Channel, Portland, OR
• September 6^th – Mark O Hatfield Skimming + GRP
• October 4^th – Clean Rivers 1 Skimming+ GRP
• November 7^th  – H.W. Zarling Skimming + GRP
• December 6^th-7^th – Vessel Operators and Deckhands Training – Portland, Oregon
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*In addition to the scheduled monthly training, Clean Rivers may provide an additional training for various focus items such as communications, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, swift water, testing new GRP’s and complete at least two up river equipment deployments.

Note: Clean Rivers is still hoping to schedule a training session with Focus Wildlife.