Arrival of toxic sand delayed until Thursday
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:24 AM PDT
By The Daily News
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E-mail this articleA ship unloading containers of sand contaminated with hazardous depleted uranium through the Port of Longview will not arrive until Thursday, port Executive Director Ken O’Hollaren said Monday.
The vessel, the USS Alabama, originally was scheduled to arrive Tuesday but has been delayed, said Chad Hyslop, spokesman for American Ecology, the company shipping the material.
Once the ship arrives, longshoremen will take two to three days to unload the 6,700 tons of sand in 306 containers, Hyslop said. The containers will be loaded by train to a toxic waste dump site in Idaho in two waves, Hyslop said.
All the material will be out of Longview within 20 to 30 days, he said.
The waste is coming from a cleanup operation at a U.S. military base in Kuwait as a result of a 1991 fire during the first Gulf War.
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