Coast Guard receives proposal for bridge project over Salmon Bay
SEATTLE — The Commander, Thirteenth Coast Guard District, has received a request for a preliminary navigation clearance determination (PNCD) from the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) in preparation for compiling a Coast Guard Bridge Permit application for a proposed West Seattle and Ballard Link Extensions light-rail transit project across Salmon Bay over the Lake Washington...
Coast Guard oversees removal of fuel from sunken vessel in Lake Washington Ship Canal
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard is responding to a tug that sank at Ballard Oil Company pier in the Lake Washington Ship Canal near Ballard, Washington, Thursday.
The 80-foot non-commercial tug Chief has a reported 620 gallons of diesel onboard with reports of light sheening.
Boom and sorbent pads have been placed around the sunken vessel to contain any further residual pollutants.
The Coast Guard Sector...
Coast Guard requests mariners delay transits through Lake Washington Ship Canal
SEATTLE — Due to a fatality accident between a tour bus and duck boat, mariners are requested to delay their transit under the Lake Washington Ship Canal draw bridges until emergency crews on the Aurora Bridge have cleared the bridge.
Mariners requesting openings of these draw bridges, please contact the Coast Guard at 206-217-6001.
Operators of the ship canal bridges are not required to open for...
Oil spill response continues in Seattle’s Salmon Bay
SEATTLE — The U.S. Coast Guard and Washington State Department of Ecology continue to oversee the cleanup and investigate the cause of an oil spill that appeared earlier this week in the Ballard Mill Marina, on Salmon Bay, along the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
The Coast Guard and Ecology received reports Monday morning of oil, accompanied by strong petroleum odors in the waters. No one has come...
