Tag: DEP
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Lisa Lisa
The tug Vinik No. 6 came down the North River Friday afternoon with the sludge barge Lisa in tow, heading for Newark Bay. New York City’s DEP continues to employ the privately owned barge to make occasional pick ups at the North River water treatment plant as well as the Owl’s Head plant in Bay…
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Reinforcements
In a very unusual move, NYC’s DEP brought in a privately-owned sludge tanker barge, the Lisa, to move residual solids from the North River water treatment plant to the Passaic Valley plant in Newark for dewatering on Tuesday, with the tug Vinik No. 6 moving her. The city normally relies on its own fleet of…
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Keeping score
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection does weekly water quality sampling along the city’s 500+ miles of waterways. On Wednesday the H.S.V. Piping Plover, the newer of the DEP’s two harbor survey vessels with on-board laboratories (the other is the HSV Osprey), came up the North River to inspect. In the background, Plover was passing…
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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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Late June: heat and wind
Heat and wind were the dominating conditions as we headed into the final days of June.
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Tuesday March 19–exit winter
The final days of winter felt like spring, but the first day of spring felt like winter, with winds gusting over 30 knots in the Upper Bay and temperatures in the 40s. North River anchorages filled up, with tanker barges perhaps escaping the wind.
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Friday January 5–non-petroleum products
Tanker barge traffic slowed on Friday but other types of barges were observed, including mud scows, sugar barges, and cement transporters coming down with product. Skies cleared and winds and seas were calm but a gale warning is in effect from 5pm Saturday.
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Comings and goings
It has been a relatively quiet start to heating season as traffic on the North River has been light and temperatures have begun to climb again. The week passed with the typical ebb and flow of tugs and barges.
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Rain, rain go away
The region has moved from storm to storm, with long periods of rain interrupted by occasional sunny days. This past weekend was particularly torrential, causing severe flooding on land and leading to combined sewer overflows in the area’s waterways. With water quality taking a hit, the swim portion of the New York City Triathlon was…
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Long may you run.
Observed weekend traffic was mainly local boats, particularly on Sunday, with most of the through traffic coming by on Saturday. Winds picked up during the day Sunday making for another great day of sailing. The John J. Harvey restored fireboat was back on the North River, always good to see.
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Traveling light
Weekend traffic was light but a handful of tug/barge combinations remained anchored in the North River, with the Dylan Cooper ATB off Edgewater and Centerline’s Adeline Marie a bit further south Sunday, and the B. Franklin in between before heading for the Upper Bay Saturday. Centerline’s William J Fallon also anchored south of Adeline on…
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Gypsum delivery
The wallboard plant in Buchanan is one of two receivers of bulk freight on the Hudson in Westchester, the other being the Yonkers Domino refinery. On Friday, a 655’ bulk ship, about as long as any vessel likely to be seen heading up the North River beyond the cruise terminal, arrived with a shipment of…
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Summer traffic
Tuesday saw the North River anchorages empty out, with all but the Saint Emilion moving on. Reinauer ATBs and CMT tugs were moving product and a bulker headed upriver. There was not yet much sign of impact from flooding up north, though the DEP’s water monitoring vessel was seen on the River, perhaps also checking…
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A grim discovery
Wednesday got off to a sad start on the North River with the discovery of a decomposed body pinned by the ebb tide against A Dock at the Boat Basin Marina, something which is not as unusual as it should be. Police cleared the scene quickly, and life went back to normal, with typical traffic…
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Classic lines
The vessel anchored in the North River on July 4 after arriving from Fort Lauderdale is not your typical super yacht as often seen in these waters during the summer months. The luxury motor yacht Haida 1929 was launched in 1929. According to articles in yachting magazines, the vessel was built for American yeast tycoon…
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Comings and goings
After the weird air quality conditions of the work week, the weekend was refreshingly normal. Familiar tugs and barges went about their usual business, with oil products moving north and stone coming south, and empties moving in the opposite direction.
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Outdoor activity
Perfect weather brought heavy recreational activity back to the North River, with motor, wind and human power vessels very much in evidence. Commercial traffic was heavy as well, particularly on Sunday. Norwegian’s Prima spent the day on the north side of Pier 88 and the USS Coooperstown remained tied up on the south side after…
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