tsunami debris

A salvage team has run into problems cutting up the Japanese dock that floated up on an Oregon beach after last year's tsunami.  Oregon Parks Department spokesman Chris Havel said Thursday morning that the team finished the first cut with a piece of equipment known as a wire saw, but a crane couldn't lift it onto a truck. So a whole new cut has been started.
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Most of Agate Beach at Newport will remain open to the public when workers cut up and remove the 66-foot long dock that washed ashore June 5. It had been carried away from a port in Japan by the March 2011 tsunami.Read More »

Kayakers surveying Washington state's most remote beaches for debris from last year's Japanese tsunami say they believe they have found part of a house.
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Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire says federal help is needed to help clean up tsunami debris that reaches the West Coast. She told a news conference Monday morning at Ocean Shores, "We don't have the resources at the state level to do what we're going to have to do here."Read More »

Oregon officials have organized a group of volunteers to scrape off, bag up and dispose of the hundreds of millions of marine organisms that hitchhiked aboard a boxcar-sized dock that floated across the Pacific during last year's tsunami.
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UPDATE: Officials report the dock was checked for radiation and it tested negative.Read More »