[CPEO-BIF] SHIPS: Plan for California's Ghost Fleet

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Suisun Bay's ghost fleet may finally R.I.P.

Carl Nolte
San Francisco Chronicle
April 1, 2010

The federal government and environmental groups reached an agreement 
Wednesday that will mean the end of the ghost fleet of retired ships in 
Suisun Bay.

The vessels were once part of a mighty reserve fleet of warships and 
freighters, but time and neglect has turned them into what one 
environmental advocate called "a floating toxic waste dump."

Only 52 ships remain of a fleet that once was as big as a good-size 
Navy, and these rusting old vessels will be removed and cleaned up for 
an ocean voyage to Texas, where they will be scrapped. The fleet will be 
reduced gradually, with 25 ships in the worst condition taken out within 
two years and the remainder by fall 2017. The settlement, which must be 
approved by a federal court in Sacramento, ends a long dispute over the 
ships, which have been a fixture in the bay just east of Benicia for 
generations.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/01/MN5A1CO3VK.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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