The Nation - News from Dec. 22, 1986
Navigation returned to normal on the Niagara River, which was finally cleared of a wrecked barge that had endangered shipping and pushed up water levels in Lake Erie. The 40-foot-wide, 250-ton barge, which slammed into a Peace Bridge abutment near Buffalo, N.Y., last August, when a tug pulling it lost control in the swift Niagara, was lifted free of the bridge and towed into Lake Erie, where it will be sold for scrap for about $10,000. The salvage operation required 23 days and cost about $4.5 million.
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