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Workers start cutting up oregon tsunami dock - Fishing Boat Motors - China Marine Outboard Motors by GREHH HERNJER
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| Article Posted: 05/13/2013 |
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With a crowd of spectators lounging in lawn chairs and snappingphotos, workers on Wednesday started cutting up the boxcar-sizedJapanese dock that was torn away from a fishing port by last year'stsunami and washed up on an Oregon beach. The plan is to cut the 165-ton concrete dock into five slices, likea loaf of bread, using a piece of equipment called a wire saw. Ifall goes well, the work should be finished by Thursday, leavingnothing but a depression in the sand until the ocean waves fill thebeach back in again. "We really are trying to keep in mind that this came from a massivedisaster in Japan and try to treat it with the respect itdeserves," Scott Korab, director of business development forBallard Diving and Salvage of Vancouver, Wash., said over the lowrumble of the wire saw and the roar of the wind.
"We are trying to complete the job in a safe and timely manner, andmake sure we are giving the public all the time they need to getsome last photos of everything as well," he said. The pieces will be lifted by a crane onto flatbed trucks. Thetrucks drive over the soft sand on a temporary roadway of planksand steel plates. Biologists will check the bottom of each slicefor invasive species. The pieces, one to a truck, will be driven tothe Portland suburb of Sherwood for dismantling.
The dock washed ashore on Agate Beach north of Newport, Ore., onJune 5. An 11-foot piece bearing a mural of blue waves that mysteriouslyappeared on the dock in the past week will be cut off and returnedto Newport for use in a memorial to be erected somewhere yet to bedetermined, Korab said. The Oregon Historical Society has asked for a piece, as has amuseum at the University of Oregon, said Parks Department spokesmanChris Havel. Korab's company won the contract from the department with a bid of$84,155. Workers dug around the dock to the bottom, then snaked a PVC pipethrough the wet sand underneath and threaded the cutting wirethrough.
Then they hooked it up to a motor and pulleys on top ofthe dock that keep the wire running continuously in a loop, cuttingthrough the mass of concrete and rebar. Workers have a diagram ofthe dock to plot the best path for cutting. The 60-some spectators, kept about 150 feet away by a fence ofsafety tape, were a new element for the workers, Korab said. "We have people kind of camping out as if this was a parade.
Peoplebrought their lawn chairs and are finding logs to sit on, watchingit all unfold," he said. "We usually are doing things under theradar." The dock became an international sensation after coming to rest inOregon. A commemorative plaque showed it was one of four owned byAomori Prefecture that broke loose from the port of Misawa on thenorthern tip of the main island during the 2011 tsunami. Joe Kruger, a retired construction superintendent from Albany,Ore., drove over with his wife to watch the spectacle.
He waslooking forward to seeing the crane lift one of the pieces onto atruck. "Until that happens, there isn't going to be much," he said. "Thatconcrete sawing is pretty dull." His wife, Suzette Hughes, said they were at the beach just a fewmiles away the day the dock washed up, but didn't learn about ituntil they got home. She collected pieces of pumice from the beachafter the 1980 Mount St.
Helens eruption, missed the 1970 attemptto dispose of a dead whale by blowing it up with dynamite, andremembers her grandmother having to go to higher ground when the1964 Alaska earthquake generated a tsunami that hit the OregonCoast. "We love the beach," she said. There will be no souvenirs for onlookers this time, Korab said. Thewire saw makes a very clean cut, and everything will be hauledaway. Scientists have warned that the 1.5 tons of seaweed, mussels,barnacles and starfish attached to the dock represented asignificant threat from invasive species.
Volunteers scraped it alloff, buried it above the high water line, and sterilized the dockwith torches. The dock is the biggest single piece of tsunami debris so far tofloat some 5,000 miles across the Pacific and wash up on NorthAmerica's shores. An abandoned fishing boat that appeared offAlaska was sunk. A motorcycle in a shipping crate appeared on aremote island off British Columbia and went to a museum. A soccerball reached Alaska.
And officials are keeping an eye on whatappears to be a barge floating off the coast of Washington. The Japanese government estimated 1.5 million tons of debris waswashed into the ocean, but it remains uncertain how much remainsafloat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration saysthe debris covers an area of the North Pacific roughly three timesthe size of the contiguous U.S. More is expected to wash ashoreover the next several years.
The dock's commemorative plaque is being kept in a safe by theParks Department until authorities decide whether to return it toJapan or give it to a museum in Oregon, Havel said. Many in the crowd Wednesday wanted to know why the dock wasn't justleft on the beach, said Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlifespokesman Brandon Ford. "It seems like the consensus is, `Gee, we ought to just leave it,'"he said. "Then we say, `No, this is a natural area. We don't wantto leave a big piece of trash in something like Yellowstone Park.'Then they say, `Oh, we understand that.'".
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