Posted on Sep 20, 2022
Navy placing 10,000 yards of sand on Puget Sound seafloor as part of legal settlement
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The U.S. Navy is placing about 10,000 cubic yards of sand onto the seafloor of Sinclair Inlet in Washington as part of a legal settlement with the state, the Suquamish Tribe, and environmental groups.
A contractor's sand-filled barge currently rests above the former site of the USS Independence, a retired aircraft carrier whose hull was scraped for marine life in 2017 before it was sent to a Texas scrapyard for dismantling.
But the tribe, along with other groups, claim in a lawsuit the hull-scraping actually released copper, zinc and other pollutants into the inlet.
The work, at a cost of $2.4 million, is known as the "Thin Layer Placement project," according to Joe Kubistek, a spokesman for Naval Base Kitsap. The Navy completed a test plot prior to the heart of the work, which began on Aug. 15.
The U.S. Navy is placing about 10,000 cubic yards of sand onto the seafloor of Sinclair Inlet in Washington as part of a legal settlement with the state, the Suquamish Tribe, and environmental groups.
A contractor's sand-filled barge currently rests above the former site of the USS Independence, a retired aircraft carrier whose hull was scraped for marine life in 2017 before it was sent to a Texas scrapyard for dismantling.
But the tribe, along with other groups, claim in a lawsuit the hull-scraping actually released copper, zinc and other pollutants into the inlet.
The work, at a cost of $2.4 million, is known as the "Thin Layer Placement project," according to Joe Kubistek, a spokesman for Naval Base Kitsap. The Navy completed a test plot prior to the heart of the work, which began on Aug. 15.
Navy placing 10,000 yards of sand on Puget Sound seafloor as part of legal settlement
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Why did the Navy dump pollution into Sinclair Inlet without permission?
"The Navy's decision to dump pollution into Sinclair Inlet without a permit was particularly egregious because of the waterway's already impaired state, and the vital need to focus on its recovery," Katelyn Kinn, attorney for the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, said at the time of the settlement."
"Why did the Navy dump pollution into Sinclair Inlet without permission?
"The Navy's decision to dump pollution into Sinclair Inlet without a permit was particularly egregious because of the waterway's already impaired state, and the vital need to focus on its recovery," Katelyn Kinn, attorney for the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, said at the time of the settlement."
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