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What’s in that water?
The NYC DEP’s survey vessel HSV Osprey was on the North River this past week. The Osprey travels around the city’s 500 miles of waterways taking samples to regularly assess water quality and pollution.
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Salt delivery
Carver’s Helen came up the North River Thursday with a hopper barge loaded with, I believe, salt lightered off a bulk ship in from Egypt that was anchored in the Upper Bay. Road salt supplies up north have been much depleted by the harsh winter. They passed the anchored Reinauer Twins/ RTC 104 ATB, a…
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Cabinet visitor
Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, a 270-foot Newport-based medium security cutter, came in to North River Pier 88 on Wednesday morning, apparently to host an event with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. A 45-foot response boat came up from Station New York on Staten Island to provide security as the motorcade pulled up on the pier.
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Practice makes perfect
The crew of NY Waterway’s Peter R Weiss ferry practiced man-overboard recovery with a dummy and a rescue net on off West 66th Street Monday.
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Sugar Express running local
A cargo of Florida sugar moved up the North River towards Yonkers Wednesday on the Sugar Express barge with the East Coast tug pushing. The Express was moving slowly against a ripping ebb tide bolstered by melting ice up north. But there was probably no rush, as the bulk ship which arrived at the plant…
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Exploration
Rowan M. McAllister, vintage 1981 and not generally seen heading upriver, ran light past the bridge Thursday. Rowan went only as far as around Dobbs Ferry before heading back to the harbor, but the next day came back up, I believe with a tanker barge.
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Five for twelve
Buchanan 5 appears to be filling in for Buchanan 12 on the daily Clinton Point quarry run. Five was towing her empty hoppers astern as she headed back north Tuesday morning, which is not a configuration we see very often for tows heading upriver. Meanwhile, 12 appears to be at Caddell’s Dry Dock currently. Hoppers…
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Returning to the front
Coast Guard Cutter Hawser was heading back to ice breaking operations up north after some time at her Bayonne base. Both Hawser and the other 65-foot harbor tug based in Bayonne have been busy keeping the channel and terminal piers clear of ice for barges this winter, along with the larger 140-foot ice breakers. Albany…
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Ice protection
The ice breaking dolphins protecting the North River water treatment plant were working as designed Friday as Vane Brothers tug Fort Schuyler headed north with the loaded DS-53 barge en route to a pier by a power plant north of Newburgh.
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Add salt
The Panama-flagged bulk ship Bulk Valor moved up the North River Tuesday en route to the Port of Coeymans. The 625-foot bulker was arriving from the Mediterranean carrying much needed road salt as local press up north has reported tight supplies amid persistent icy cold conditions.
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Pilot on board
A Sandy Hook pilot boarded the transatlantic sail freighter Gran de Sail 2 at anchor in the North River Tuesday. The Coast Guard sometimes requires pilots aboard foreign flag ships anchored in the harbor during high wind conditions, and with gusts over 30 knots all day, that may have been the case Tuesday. The 167-foot…
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