2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 15 Aug 2007 21:16:29 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Suisun Bay (CA) mothball fleet
 
Fleet foes steer collision course
State, federal agencies are still at odds over environmental concerns with decrepit ships off Suisun Bay

By Thomas Peele
Contra Costa Times (CA)
August 15, 2007

A confrontation between state and federal agencies is brewing as the U.S. Maritime Administration prepares to tow out to sea four decrepit ships anchored in Suisun Bay, and state clean water regulators consider stopping it unless pollution concerns are addressed.

The ships are part of the decaying "Mothball Fleet" of 74 vessels east of the Benicia bridge that are harboring organic growth on their hulls under water and tons of toxic, peeling paint on their structures above the waterline.

The Maritime Administration wants to clean the underwater portions of the hulls in Alameda, and then tow the ships to Texas, where they will be cut up for scrap. The San Francisco Bay Area Water Quality Control Board wants assurances that the hull cleaning will not pollute the water, and insists that the Maritime Administration clean the toxic paint above the waterline before the vessels are moved.

"We can't be put in a situation where we know (the vessels are) discharging paint into the water. They will have to take the worst of it off," David Elias, an engineering geologist with the water quality control board, said Monday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_6628064?nclick_check=1

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