Mainers Join Efforts to Safeguard Beachespressherald.Com ; They Get Equipment Where It Needs to Be, Patrol the Alabama Sands for Oil and Provide Guidance to Cleanup Operations. Series: The Maine Story Beth Quimby, Environmental Reporter for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Is in the Gulf Region This Week, Chronicling the Efforts of Some of the Many Mainers Who Are There to Help. She Will File Stories, Blog Entries, Photos and Video On the Web and in Print, Capturing the Environmental and Economic Disaster Unfolding There. For the Most Up-to-Date Information, Go to Pressherald.Com

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Every day since he arrived at this beach resort community about 30 minutes by car from Mobile, Kenny Small of Gray has taken a two- hour drive.

Small, a supervisor with Clean Harbors environmental services, makes a daily circuit around Mobile Bay. He stops at eight work sites where Clean Harbor crews are cleaning up the BP oil that has been washing up on the miles of white-sand beaches lining the Alabama coastline.

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Mainers Join Efforts to Safeguard Beachespressherald.Com ; They Get Equipment Where It Needs to Be, Patrol the Alabama Sands for Oil and Provide Guidance to Cleanup Operations. Series: The Maine Story Beth Quimby, Environmental Reporter for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Is in the Gulf Region This Week, Chronicling the Efforts of Some of the Many Mainers Who Are There to Help. She Will File Stories, Blog Entries, Photos and Video On the Web and in Print, Capturing the Environmental and Economic Disaster Unfolding There. For the Most Up-to-Date Information, Go to Pressherald.Com

"I want to see what is going on, whether everyone is happy," said Small, who has a wife and an 11-year-old daughter in Maine.

Small is one of dozens of Mainers spending their summer responding to the Deepw...

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