[CPEO-MEF] SHIPS: Benicia (CA) "ghost fleet" to be scrappd in Texas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Benicia's decaying ships to be scrubbed, sold

Kelly Zito
San Francisco Chronicle
October 22, 2009


Two World War II cargo ships moored among Benicia's fabled "ghost fleet" 
since the late 1940s will be towed out of Suisun Bay next month, 
scrubbed clean in dry dock and ultimately sent to Texas to be broken up 
and sold for scrap.

The move will kick off a new federal effort to dispose of the hulking 
ships that are leaching toxic paint and other chemicals into the waterway.

The initiative, announced Thursday in Benicia by U.S. Deputy Secretary 
of Transportation John Porcari, marked a thawing of relations between 
federal officials and state water quality regulators involved in a 
long-running dispute over the maintenance and dismantling of the fleet, 
which numbers 72 ships.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/22/MNVT1A9EFB.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
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