Suisun Bay fleet hardly shipshape: Rustbuckets bearing flaking lead paint, oil, PCBs grow too flimsy, costly to sail. From: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) | Date: May 14, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Contra Costa Times. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Thomas Peele

May 14--Obsolete ships anchored in Suisun Bay have decayed so much that the U.S. government sometimes pays more to scrap just one of them than it spends in a year to maintain the entire fleet, federal documents show. Hazardous materials including asbestos, PCBs, lead paint, mercury, chromates, toxic tin and arsenic are omnipresent in the fleet.

What makes the ships expensive to get rid of also makes them dangerous. The vessels, many ...

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