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Ike debris still abundant
Workers bringing up boats, other sunken garbage
Associated Press and wetlands. erators and cars to personal
The company on Tuesday watercraft and golf carts,
PORT BOLIVAR - Boats, used a massive 150-ton mired just below the water.
toilets and telephone poles device, similar to scissors, to The Texas General Land
are among the items still cut apart an upside-down 80- Office has spent nearly
being plucked from the foot shrimp boat mired in $12 million to remove debris
water and muck nearly a the mud in East Galveston left behind by Ike, which
year after Hurricane Ike hit Bay. stormed ashore Sept. 13.
Texas. The Houston Chronicle Agency spokesman Jim
Some sunken wrecks left reported Wednesday that it Suydam says most of the
behind are being cut apart was the 69th boat removed money has been spent clean-
for removal from Galveston by DRC under its contract ing up Galveston Bay,
Bay with the Texas General Land Trinity Bay and East
The DRC Group, based in Office. Galveston Bay.
Mobile, Ala., has a contract Agency inspector Tony A company spokeswoman
through Aug. 21 to clear Williams says DRC so far said DRC, as of Aug. 5, had
storm debris from about has removed boats and
600 square miles of water objects, ranging from, refrig- removed 23,442 cubic yards of
debris.
DRC project manager Bryce
Fletcher said the mud
Tuesday held the Gulf Wave,
the shrimp boat, in its grip v
despite efforts to raise it with
two cranes and pumping it
with air to try to lift it.
"It didn't move an inch,"
Fletcher said.
Salvagers used the 330,000-
pound shears to cut up the
Gulf Wave and put it piece by
piece into a barge, Fletcher
said.
Side-scan radar detected no
storm debris in the Houston
Ship Channel, according to
the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, which spent about
$3.2 million to clear the
Intracoastal Waterway from
High island to Port Bolivar.