Port Commissioners OK Plan for 10th Avenue Marine Terminal
Source:
SDBJ.com, By Brad
Graves, Thursday, December 15, 2016
Port commissioners
approved a plan to modernize the San Diego waterfront’s 10th Avenue Marine
Terminal beginning in the summer.
Meeting on Dec. 13, the board OK’d an
environmental document covering the port’s plan to remake the terminal and
handle more freight through it. The document foresees the port handling up to
4.6 million metric tons of cargo at the terminal, up from 1 million tons.
The original proposal called for
handling as much as 6.1 million tons. Commissioners dialed back the plan “in
order to mitigate significant air quality and health risk impacts,” the port
said in a statement. Such impacts “are a concern given the project’s proximity
to Barrio Logan and other sources of off-site pollutants, such as Interstate 5
and other large traffic generators in the vicinity.”
Work on a first phase of terminal
improvements will begin in 2017, a port spokeswoman said. The $24 million,
first phase of project will take slightly less than two years to complete. The
port wants to demolish two 1950s-era transit sheds nestled against the berths
with the deepest water. A $10 million federal grant will help pay for
demolition. The port also plans to add high-mast light poles and improve
railroad spurs on the terminal.
Other construction phases will
follow, including the demolition of a warehouse and molasses tanks, and the
installation of up to five large, cargo-handling gantry cranes. Market forces
will determine how many cranes the port eventually installs, a port executive
said earlier this year. An October story in the Business Journal summarized the
plan.
In its Dec. 13 announcement, the port
laid out several steps that it plans take to keep emissions in check. It
includes a plan to buy up to 36 vehicles — forklifts, stackers and yard trucks
— with zero emissions or low emissions. The port also plans to add what it
calls a “bonnet system” to trap engine emissions from ships that can’t use
shore power.
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