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Originally Posted by Track Junky
That place is Mare Island. The EPA put a stop to the scrapping of the ships and now what they do is bring them to Mare Island just to make them sea worthy enough to get them to Texas and then they scrap them there.
The Navy did a lot of damage to the waters in that area not to mention the surrounding land on Mare Island where they were based. Lennar Homes now owns a huge piece of the area and have put up a few housing developments there. Often during excavations for infrastructure we come across silver dirt buried below the surface. The silver dirt is lead paint that was sand blasted from the ships hulls.
I've been told that there is a lot of ammunition from the war ships that was dumped into the waters there. Story has it that war ships would be sent out on training missions and if they came back to Mare Island with any ammo left on board they would lose funding to buy more ammo so they started dumping the ammo before docking.
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Mare Island Golf Course is the one my dad and I always play when he comes to visit. There are some cool old bunkers and military somethings all over that course. Feels like a time warp playing parts of that course.