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Airlift of Derelict Fishing Vessles in Jamaica Bay, long Island, NY

The Jamaica Bay Unit of the National Park Servive's Gateway National Recreatin Area has on ongoing program to remove derelict vessles from the marshes of Jamaica Bay. While many of the boats are at the edges of marshes and can be fairly easily floated out and towed away for disposal, many other boats lie deeper in the marsh. Removing these boats by land or water would result in significant environmental damage to the wetlands.

The best envionmental option is to airlift the vessles out of the marshes.

While the National Park Service lacks helicopters to do this sort of work, the NY Army National Guard does.

The FY2006 training opportunity will involve NY Guard pilots and helicopter Support Teams (HSTs) airlifting the vessles out of the marshes and placing them at nearby Floyd Bennett Field (a former Navy airfield at Jamaica Bay) where the National Park Service and local government wil partner to dispose of the vessles.

Training opportunity: The triaining opportunity will involve the rigging and lifting of non-standard loads.

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Project points of contact: Doug Adamo National Park Service (718) 354-4510 Doug_Adamo@nps.gov James Lance NY Army National Guard IRT Coordinator Division of Naval and Military Affairs MNGA 330 Old Niskayuna Road Latham, NY 12110 (518) 786-6185 James.Lance@ny.ngb.army.mil William Nuckols Project Coordinator and Acting Military Liaison Coastal America 300 7th Street SW Washington, DC 20024 202-401-9548 443-994-1493 cell william.nuckols@usda.gov www.CoastalAmerica.gov

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