{"id":18958,"date":"2022-07-23T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shipip.com\/?p=18958"},"modified":"2022-07-23T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T16:49:40","slug":"south-carolina-plans-to-clean-up-historic-carrier-uss-yorktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/south-carolina-plans-to-clean-up-historic-carrier-uss-yorktown\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Plans to Clean Up Historic Carrier USS Yorktown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The State of South Carolina is developing a plan\u00a0to remove toxic pollutants from the decommissioned aircraft carrier\u00a0USS\u00a0Yorktown,\u00a0<\/em>a National Historic Landmark located at Patriots Point in Charleston Harbor.<\/p>\n

According to the state, the hull of the\u00a0Yorktown<\/em>\u00a0is corroding and\u00a0the chances of a leak\u00a0have been increasing, prompting the need to remove about 160,000 gallons of petroleum and more than a million gallons of polluted water. These toxic liquids\u00a0were never removed from the ship\u2019s 428 vessel tanks and compartments by the U.S. Navy, according to the state.<\/p>\n

Commissioned in 1943,\u00a0Yorktown\u00a0<\/em>is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the U.S Navy. The aircraft carrier was initially named\u00a0Bonhomme Richard<\/em>\u00a0but was renamed\u00a0Yorktown<\/em>\u00a0after the previous USS\u00a0Yorktown\u00a0<\/em>(CV-5) was sunk at the Battle of Midway. She served in World War II and the Vietnam War, and she was donated by the Navy to the State of South Carolina in 1975 for use as a museum ship. The ship gained fame for\u00a0picking up the Apollo 8 crew and spacecraft in 1968 after the first human mission to the moon.<\/p>\n

The decommissioned carrier is maintained by the Patriots Point Development Authority and serves as a tourists\u2019 attraction at the authority\u2019s naval and maritime museum facility, which receives more than 300,000 visitors annually.<\/p>\n

To avert an environmental disaster, Governor McMaster has issued an executive order\u00a0directing the South Carolina Office of Resilience (SCOR) to begin the process of removing the toxic pollutants by commissioning an updated cost study for the project.<\/p>\n

“This executive order protects Charleston Harbor and the entire Lowcountry from these hazardous materials leaking out of the\u00a0USS Yorktown<\/em>\u00a0and into the harbor,\u201d said Governor McMaster.<\/p>\n

The cost study by the state government will be the second following a 2013 study undertaken by Shaw Group, which concluded that it would cost as much as $4.4 million for a complete remediation effort.<\/p>\n

The earlier study also identified a significant quantity of hazardous or potentially hazardous materials whose presence created safety issues, increased costs of maintenance and increased risk for a release of contaminants to Charleston Harbor. The primary concern is the 160,000 gallons of legacy residual fuel found to exist in 129 structural tanks and compartments aboard the ship. The oil is combined with 1.75 million gallons of water, which will also need to be removed so that the tanks can be cleaned.<\/p>\n

SCOR is expected to undertake an updated comprehensive review, evaluation, analysis or assessment of any and all remaining legacy contaminants that are currently contained within\u00a0Yorktown<\/em>\u00a0and the options or plans to remove or remediate any such hazardous or potentially hazardous materials, including an updated estimate of the corresponding costs.<\/p>\n

“The\u00a0USS Yorktown<\/em>\u00a0is very important to South Carolina\u2019s history and tourism. Our team stands ready to begin the process of collaborating with state leaders, state agencies and Patriots Point for the complete remediation of the contents in the\u00a0USS Yorktown<\/em>,\u201d ssaid Ben Duncan, SCOR Chief.<\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/south-carolina-plans-to-clean-up-historic-carrier-uss-yorktown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The State of South Carolina is developing a plan\u00a0to remove toxic pollutants from the decommissioned aircraft carrier\u00a0USS\u00a0Yorktown,\u00a0a National Historic Landmark located at Patriots Point in Charleston Harbor. According to the state, the hull of the\u00a0Yorktown\u00a0is corroding and\u00a0the chances of a leak\u00a0have been increasing, prompting the need to remove about 160,000 gallons of petroleum and more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-18958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-safety-news","tag-ship-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}