USS America

Scott,

Did look. Did you?

Re-read the thread. And when you do you will find further, especially that
by Gerry Hamm.

Yes and it's taking 2 years plus on a ship less than half the size of the
America.

You are comparing apples to oranges. Different ship, built in a different
era = different contaminants. For example, there was no wooden flight deck
planking on AMERICA, thus no need to remediate that potential pollution
source. Other contaminants on AMERICA exist only in de minimus quantities
(quantities so small as not to be any hazard) or have been controlled
(through encapsulation, neutralization, etc.) over the years.

Further, ORISKANY was decommissioned and mothballed in 1976, some time
before the passage and implementation of the key pieces of environmental
legislation (RECRA, CERCLA, etc.) that most affect the use, control, and
mitigation of pollutants. So it is not surprising that, weather factors
excluded, it took ~2 years to ready ORISKANY.

...and yet the Navy is able to prepare the America for this in months
instead of years,

Wrong again, basis posts in this NG by others.

with no money or manpower explicitly budgeted?

Please cite the source for your statement that "no money or manpower [was]
explicitly budgeted."

--
Mike Kanze

"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation
between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting
done by fools and its thinking by cowards."

- Sir William Francis Butler

"Scott Peterson" wrote in message
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"Mike Kanze" wrote:

I don't. Sounds as if you may have an agenda in your post.


Don't waste time looking for what's not there. It's a legitimate
question as the navy does not have a particularly good environmental
record.

Others in this NG have separately cited the length of time that the Navy
has
been preparing for this SINKEX.

Did look. Did you? It was first announced by the Navy about the
beginning of March, this year. Their announcement at that time said
that "some" materials had been removed.



If you are truly interested - and not just
trolling - do a Google search on the plans and environmental preparations
for the upcoming scuttling of the former USS ORISKANY (CV-34) as an
artificial reef off the Florida Panhandle. One example of these is the
removal of ORISKANY's wooden flight deck planking due to PCB
contamination.
This will give you perhaps the most comparable analog to what the Navy did
to prepare AMERICA.


Yes and it's taking 2 years plus on a ship less than half the size of
the America. Oriskany is also having to make two trips between
Florida and Texas to avoid hurricanes while they are working on her.

...and yet the Navy is able to prepare the America for this in months
instead of years, with no money or manpower explicitly budgeted?





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Scott Peterson

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After eating, do amphibians have to wait an
hour before getting out of the water?

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"Mike Kanze" wrote:


Please cite the source for your statement that "no money or manpower [was]
explicitly budgeted."

http://navweb.secnav.navy.mil/pubbud/04pres/db_u.htm



Scott Peterson

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Kids in the back seat cause accidents;
accidents in the back seat cause kids.

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