[CPEO-MEF] "Clean Ships, Toxic Bay" (Suisun Bay, CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clean ships, toxic bay

By Thomas Peele
CONTRA COSTA TIMES (CA)
September 15, 2006

Sheets of decayed metals, hull coatings and lead paint more than 
one-third of an inch thick peeled off two obsolete U.S. Maritime 
Administration ships when marine growth was scrubbed from their hulls at 
the Port of Richmond last month, according to a report prepared for the 
federal government.

The toxic material was left in San Francisco Bay, much of it adhered to 
thick seaweed and barnacles that accumulated on the ships for more than 
35 years as they were anchored in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet near Benicia.

When the cleaning was done in early August, a Maritime Administration 
spokeswoman said only organic materials would be left in the water.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/community/15525440.htm

--
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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