Tag: Sludge
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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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Birds of a feather
It’s not common to see two DEP sludge tankers on the North River at the same time. On any particular day, we usually see one of the fleet of five tankers servicing the North River plant. But on Wednesday, the Hunts Point tanker was arriving just as the Red Hook was leaving with a cargo…
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Ships that pass
The municipal tanker Rockaway was heading for the North River water treatment plant Saturday morning and preparing to pass the Greek-flagged supply ship Astrea. Astrea has been working on the Champlain Hudson Power Express project further north and was returning to Port Newark, probably for resupply or service. Rockaway was going to load a cargo…
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Then and now
Watching Margaret Moran assist the small Polar cruise ship Silver Cloud leave Pier 88 Tuesday evening reminded me of a photo I took in the mid-1980s of that same tug assisting the old QE2 leaving the same pier. I have posted this picture before in Back to the 80s but this is a good excuse…
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A brief taste of spring
Temperatures rose into the 60s Thursday, giving us a taste of spring before another cold front rolls in tomorrow. The warm weather brought a pod of kayakers with outriggers onto the river. Commercial traffic remains light and mostly comprised of tugs returning with empty barges. There have been some interesting cargo movements during evening hours,…
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Pier Review
Many of the piers which once poked out into the North River from the Manhattan shore have long ago disappeared and a number have also been converted to purely recreational uses with no maritime functionality at all. However, some continue to serve their original purpose, providing access to ships in the river for passengers or…
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Hauling sludge
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) operates a fleet of 5 small tankers that can frequently be seen in the waterways around the city. The tankers transport residual solids that remain after wastewater has been treated (called sludge) between city sewage treatment plants. The city operates 14 wastewater treatment plants but only…
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