Sunken barge update: a big bite
After days of a metallic banging and clanging, the demolition crane was relatively silent yesterday. The crane barge Newark Bay took a time out from barge busting to do some scrap hauling. It was jo ...
Sunken barge update: bits and pieces
After the remaining contents of the sunken barge were emptied onto another barge using a clamshell crane, the recovery of the sunken barge entered a new phase last week. Apparently, the attemp ...
Shoreline clean-up yields boatloads of trash
The Lighthouse peninsula is a lot cleaner after our Saturday morning river sweep. Eighteen volunteers spent over two hours along the jetty picking up debris washed ashore by recent floods. Plastic ...
Reminder: river sweep on Saturday
Join us for a shoreline clean up this Saturday morning, May 11th. Get some fresh air, enjoy the river, and make the area look spiffy! Meet at the Lighthouse at 9AM ready to pick up trash. Hope to see ...
Salvage of wrecked barge begins
Yesterday morning, the crane barge Delaware Bay arrived at Magdalen Island. The crane is equipped with a clamshell dredge to remove the fill from the grounded hopper barge. It was accompanied by a ...