And I vaguely recall movie scenes there from
Detective Callahan, Clint Eastwood (I think it was, maybe I’m wrong)
https://baykeeper.org/update/featured-cleanup-ghost-fleet-now-complete/
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
The Ghost Fleet of Suisun Bay—the decaying military ships that poisoned the San Francisco Bay ecosystem for 40 years—is finally gone. Legal action brought by Baykeeper and our environmental partners led to a federal government cleanup and removal of the 57 ships, which started in 2010 and was completed ahead of schedule this month.
The Ghost Fleet (also known as the “Mothball Fleet”) was a collection of long-defunct military ships from World War II and the Korean War. They were originally stored in Suisun Bay with the idea that they could be reactivated for emergency wartime use. But the ships slowly decayed—leaking fuel, rusting, collecting invasive species, and shedding metals and toxic paint. The fleet gradually became unsalvageable and turned into a floating toxic waste dump, releasing an estimated 20 tons of contaminants into Suisun Bay and San Francisco Bay.
Baykeeper, along with Arc Ecology and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), sued the federal government to require the cleanup of the fleet in 2007. Pollutants in the mud directly below the Ghost Fleet were found to be in concentrations that exceeded California’s hazardous waste toxicity criteria. The pollution levels from the Ghost Fleet were high enough for bottom-dwelling species, like green sturgeon and Sacramento splittail, to be harmed and for the toxins to be introduced into the Bay’s food chain.
A lot of wildlife was exposed to those toxins. Suisun Bay and the adjacent Suisun Marsh—the largest brackish marsh on the West Coast—provide critical habitat for several species of endangered fish, including Chinook salmon and Delta smelt. The wetlands in the area are home to hundreds of native bird species, and they are an important feeding stop for thousands of migrating water birds each year.
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