Local Containment Boom and Standoff (Enviro Boom)

Abstract

A Local Containment Boom and Standoff or Enviro Boom® is described in three embodiments all of which are immediately deployable: Boom Arms, a Dual Pole Standoff, and Dual Chamber Boom Arms. The Boom Arms comprise buoyant material covered with impermeable material with rigid sealed poles inside the Boom Arms. The Dual Chamber Boom Arms have an upper chamber for flotation material and lower chamber for water ballast. Both types of Boom Arms sit partially submerged to block oil from passing both over and under the Boom Arm. Boom Arms are immediately deployable for booming operations, pre-booming operations and quick response spill containment. Structure positioning magnets attach the Boom Arms, Dual Pole Standoffs or Dual Chamber Boom Arms to an aquatic structure. The Dual Pole Standoff comprises sealed poles with structure positioning magnets to stand off other booms, including traditional booms, from an aquatic structure.

1 . A Local Containment Boom and Standoff, embodied in Boom Arms comprising:
 a pair of connected buoyant Boom Arm sealed from the environment where the Boom Arm is formed of any suitable buoyant material where the buoyancy is not obtained by inflation or filling with any temporary material and
 a bore formed in the buoyant Boom Arm below a centerline of the buoyant Boom Arm with the bore of sufficient diameter to receive 
   a pair of rigid poles, sealed from receiving water or oil, to be contained inside the bore of the buoyant Boom Arm where the sealed poles function to add strength and stiffness to the buoyant Boom Arm and to add weight to the buoyant Boom Arm to keep the buoyant Boom Arm upright in the water where the sealed pole can be formed of any metal, plastic, wood or other material of sufficient strength, buoyancy, and rigidity and sealed at the ends using any means employed by those skilled in the art;   a plurality of linking magnets in mechanical connection with the back side of a Boom Arm protective cover that allows the assembly to magnetically attach folded together to store folded when not in use and to hold together during deployment and after deployment if desired, and   a pair of structure positioning magnets with the associated magnet connectors where no associated base member is required to be permanently or semi-permanently attached to the aquatic structure where the structure positioning magnets hold the Boom Arms at a changing waterline of an aquatic structure where the Boom Arms forms two sides of a triangle when in the operating state with the third side of the triangle formed by the aquatic structure to provide a flexible local containment area at a spill site or a potential spill site where the Boom Arms are immediately deployable, where the Boom Arms do not surround an entire aquatic structure but only the local containment area, where the Boom Arms can be easily repositioned to allow for the changing waterline of the aquatic structure and changing needs of the containment area.   
     
     
         2 . The Local Containment Boom and Standoff of  claim 1 , wherein multiple Boom Arms are used to form a local containment area where structure positioning magnets are used at the interface to the aquatic structure and the structure positioning magnets between Boom Arms are replaced with mechanical connectors so a non-triangular geometric containment area is formed with triangular cones or poles used to maintain a fixed angle between the Boom Arms. 
     
     
         3 . A Dual Pole Standoff Assembly that is immediately deployable comprising:
 a pair of sealed poles wherein the sealed poles are be filled with
 a buoyant material, and each one of the sealed poles has 
 a proximal end and 
 a distal end, and 
   a pair of mechanical connectors at each end of the pair of sealed poles wherein the pair of sealed poles are connected at the proximal ends with a plurality of mechanical connectors, and   a pair of structure positioning magnets with the associated magnet connectors where no associated base member is required to be permanently or semi-permanently attached to the aquatic structure where the structure positioning magnets hold the Dual Pole Standoff to form sides of a geometric shape such as a triangle with one side of the geometric shape formed by the aquatic structure to provide a flexible local containment area at a spill site or a potential spill site where the Dual Pole Standoff is immediately deployable, where the Dual Pole Standoffs do not surround an entire aquatic structure but only the local area containment area, where the Dual Pole Standoffs can be repositioned to allow for the changing waterline of the aquatic structure and changing needs of the containment area.   
     
     
         4 . A Local Containment Boom and Standoff, embodied in A Dual Chamber Boom Arms comprising:
 a pair of rigid Dual Chamber Boom Arms that are immediately deployable wherein
 a sealed upper Flotation Chamber is filled with a flotation material and 
 a lower hollow Ballast Chamber to be filled with ambient water, and 
   a plurality of Ballast Chamber Openings to allow ambient water to move in and out of the Ballast Chamber when the device is deployed in water and to allow the Ballast Chamber to be used as a storage area,   a plurality of linking magnets in mechanical connection with   a Dual Chamber Boom Arms back side protective cover that allows the assembly to magnetically attach folded together to store efficiently when not in use and to hold together during deployment and after deployment if desired, and   a pair of structure positioning magnets with the associated magnet connectors where no associated base member is required to be permanently or semi-permanently attached to the aquatic structure where the structure positioning magnets hold the Dual Chamber Boom Arms at a changing waterline of an aquatic structure where the Dual Chamber Boom Arms forms two sides of a geometric shape (or more sides with multiple Dual Chamber Boom Arms) when in the operating state with one side of the geometric shape formed by the aquatic structure to provide a flexible local containment area at a spill site or a potential spill site where the Dual Chamber Boom Arms do not surround an entire aquatic structure but only the local area containment area, where the Dual Chamber Boom Arms can be repositioned to allow for the changing waterline of the aquatic structure and changing needs of the local containment area.