Harbor clean-up continues; 35-ton azipod to be raised from Marquette waters Friday
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Source: WLUC TV6
MARQUETTE — Clean-up is continuing in Marquette’s Lower Harbor following a tug and barge mishap that spilled about 30 gallons of gear oil into the harbor on Monday.
Tuesday, environmental contractors worked to remove oil that had collected along containment booms and the shoreline.
Now attention is focusing on recovering the azipod steering mechanism that broke off of the tug during the accident. The unit weighs 35 tons and may contain another 300 gallons of oil.
“We’re quite confident that we can continue to recover the pod without any further release when we do raise the pod on Friday with a barge,” explained Ensign Jonathan Dale, the US Coast Guard Marine Inspector. “We will have plenty of boom in place and preventative measures so we have no further oil discharge.”
The tug was moved to the ore dock in the Upper Harbor on Tuesday. The tug was attempting to move the barge into the Shiras generating plant on Monday morning, when the azipod struck ground and broke off.
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