Concept: oil boom in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI	http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/5830
Preferred label	oil boom
Definition	A floating device used to contain oil on a body of water. Once the boom has been inflated, it is towed downwind of the oil slick and formed into a U-shape; under the influence of wind, the oil becomes trapped within the boom. Skimming equipment travels into the boom enclosure and the oil is pumped into containers.
Notation
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-12-05
Accepted Date	2013-12-05
Not Accepted Date
Has broader	6841 (purification facility) in gemet2/concept
Is related to	5831 (oil disaster) in gemet2/concept
Has close match	http://data.uba.de/umt/_00018571 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oil_boom
Source	EPAGLO (Terms of Environment — Glossary, Abbreviation, And Acronyms) in gemet2/source GILP (Dictionary of environmental terms) in gemet2/source