HONOLULU — The National Park Service says it is working as fast as possible to reopen access to the USS Arizona Memorial after cracks were discovered last month on the floating concrete pier near the metal access ramp.
HONOLULU — The National Park Service says it is working as fast as possible to reopen access to the USS Arizona Memorial after cracks were discovered last month on the floating concrete pier near the metal access ramp.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports visitors to the memorial at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu are taken on a 15-minute narrated tour of Battleship Row instead of the usual docking.
Boat transportation to the pier was suspended in early May following the discovery of the cracks.
Jay Blount, a spokesman for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, says the cracks were minor and the memorial is structurally sound.
Officials say the pier shifted nearly 3 feet (1 meter) away from the memorial, pulling on the ramp and damaging an attachment bolt.
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Information from: Honolulu Star-Advertiser, http://www.staradvertiser.com
Was it not some hospital ship that rammed the pier in the past and why was not that ship cited for the damages? Seems like forever the National Park Service is “working” on fixing it, better to have it contracted out with deadlines instead of depending on government workers, who have a bad reputation of “massaging” the system with minimum work and an eye on retirement.