Problems delay removing tsunami dock on Ore. beach
A salvage team has run into problems cutting up the Japanese dock that floated up on an Oregon beach after last year's tsunami.
Oregon Parks Department spokesman Chris Havel said Thursday morning that the team finished the first cut with a piece of equipment known as a wire saw, but a crane couldn't lift it onto a truck. So a whole new cut has been started.
Havel says it was first thought that the piece was held down by suction between the dock and the wet sand.
But now it appears the saw failed to cut through a piece of rebar.
Workers had expected to have the dock hauled away Thursday. Havel says there is now no telling when the work will be done.
Oregon Parks Department spokesman Chris Havel said Thursday morning that the team finished the first cut with a piece of equipment known as a wire saw, but a crane couldn't lift it onto a truck. So a whole new cut has been started.
Havel says it was first thought that the piece was held down by suction between the dock and the wet sand.
But now it appears the saw failed to cut through a piece of rebar.
Workers had expected to have the dock hauled away Thursday. Havel says there is now no telling when the work will be done.
They should have brought ODOT in to blow it up. I hear they've got some experience with that...
How much taxpayer money is this costing? Didn't they remove all of the foreign material off it already, what's the harm of just leaving it there. Seems like they are doing more harm to the beach with all of the construction vehicles.Â
Why should the marine life get our junk?? Whats wrong with you people?????
Wouldn't it have been easier just to sink this thing while it's still out in the open water?
@Magic 8 Ball
Usually these things donât sink because the materials they are cast from float. I donât know what all this one is constructed from, but it would have best been used for its intended porpoise. A little creative thinking could have saved a lot of bucks. Â
@oldster70 I agree. Didnt we move NOAA down in that area and plan to build new digs for them? Couldn't we have refloated this and used it? Seems like a waste of an obviously sea worthy resource.
@Magic 8 Ball Its been beached, but I agree that it should be towed out to sea and sunk, rather than cutting it apart.Â