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January 21, 2010
Posted by Michael Wall in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- baydelta, ghostfleet, MARAD, pollution, sanfranciscobay, suisunbay
For decades, the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) and its parent agency, the Department of Transportation (DOT), have moored dozens of decrepit and non-operational former military support vessels in San Francisco Bay and abandoned them to the ravages of time and...
October 22, 2009
Posted by Michael Wall in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- baydelta, california, ghostfleet, MARAD, pollution, sanfranciscobay, suisunbay
Today the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced that two vessels from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet will, at long last, be removed for disposal. This is good news. The marine paint on these two inoperable...