Coast Guard wraps up 25-day operation to remove sunken Canadian ship
The last remaining piece of the HMCS Chaleur, a Cold War-era Canadian Navy minesweeper, was lifted from Little Potato Slough on Thursday morning, concluding a 25-day demolition effort by the U.S. Coast Guard and partner contractors. The operation, which began in mid-July, cleared more than 400 tons of oil-saturated hull from the Delta waterway. … Submerged since 2021, the Chaleur had become a slow-moving environmental hazard in one of California’s most ecologically fragile and economically important river systems. Its deteriorating Guardstructure leaked oil into a channel that supplies drinking water to Stockton and irrigates vast tracts of farmland across San Joaquin County.
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