South Carolina officials have completed the multimillion-dollar USS Yorktown Environmental Remediation Project.
The South Carolina Office of Resilience awarded the USS Yorktown Environmental Assessment and Remediation project an American Rescue Plan Act State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds grant in the amount of $10.7 million for Phase I and $20.9 million for Phase II, for a total budgeted award amount of $31.6 million. SCOR procured Research Planning, Inc. to complete the Phase I remediation plan in partnership with T&T Salvage, LLC, and GEL Laboratories, LLC.
The project, which is a result of Gov. Henry McMaster’s 2022 Executive Order, removed more than 1.6 million gallons of hazardous materials and over nine tons of asbestos from the ship. The pollutants were at increasing risk of leaking into Charleston Harbor due to the continued corrosion of the Yorktown’s outer hull, posing a major environmental and economic threat to the Lowcountry.
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