Virginia
160-ton vessel is finally removed from Assateague
October 7, 2009
www.delmarvanow.com
A two-month effort to free a large vessel that ran aground on Assateague Island in August ended happily Thursday.
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No one is buying decommissioned U.S. ships due to poor economy
October 2, 2009
www.mesotheliomanews.com
Decommissioned merchant ships being stored at the Reserve Fleet in Newport News, Virginia have no buyers.
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Two of Va.'s 'Ghost Fleet' ships to be recycled
August 24, 2009
www.chron.com
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Virginia's "Ghost Fleet" is losing two more ships. The U.S. Maritime Administration said Monday it has awarded contracts to recycle the rescue ship Escape and the destroyer tender Cape Cod.
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Officials push for quicker removal of 'ghost fleet'
ships
July 01, 2009
www.hamptonroads.com
Suffolk, Newport
News and James City County are appealing to Congress and the U.S. government to
speed up the removal of environmentally risky ships in the James River Reserve
Fleet, also known as the "ghost fleet."
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Ghost fleet trimmed by one
June 08, 2009
www.dailypress.com
The government has sold another ship in its James River Reserve
Fleet.The Suribachi, a ship built in 1956, was sold for scrap metal
recycling to a company in Texas for $20,001. The ship is tentatively to
leave the fleet on July 2. It will be the 79th ship to leave the ghost
fleet since 2001.State and local officials have been pushing the U.S.
Maritime Administration to reduce the fleet of obsolete ships, which
contain waste oil, lead, asbestos and other toxic materials, because of
fears about environmental hazards. Several localities have passed
resolutions asking Congress to fund the fleet's removal.
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Asian oysters not part of plan to revive stocks in Bay
April 7, 2009
hamptonroads.com
Virginia, Maryland and the Army Corps of Engineers announced a new
strategy Monday for restoring oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, a 10-year
plan costing $500 million that excludes any use of exotic Asian oysters.
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James River Ship Sold For Recycling
January 16, 2009
MarineLink.com
The U.S. Department of Transportation?s Maritime Administration has
sold a ship for recycling to Bay Bridge Enterprises of Chesapeake, Va.
The
Milwaukee, an AOR2-class oiler built in 1969 at the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, Mass, brought a purchase price of $56,410.
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Ghost Fleet ship meant for Florida reef to be sold
October 31, 2008
by Tim McGlone
The Virginia-Pilot
A federal judge has ordered the sale of a former James River Reserve
Fleet ship after a contractor failed to pay for the clean up of the
vessel. The city could lose ownership because of more than $1.6 million
in unpaid bills owed to Colonna's Shipyard in Norfolk, which cleaned
the ship and made it ready for scuttling. Other subcontractors say they
haven't been paid hundreds of thousands more.
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Old Wilson Bridge Finds New Life As Artificial Reef for Baby Oysters
By Christy Goodman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 18, 2008; Page B05
Oysters Delivered to New Chesapeake Reefs
Marine biologists and divers hand-delivered 500,000 baby oysters to the
first of five new artificial reefs created from the rubble of the old
Woodrow Wilson Bridge this week, part of a broader effort to restore
the badly depleted oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Artificial Reef Program Web Sites
www.mrc.virginia.gov/vswft/angler_guide/angler_web_reef.pdf