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U.S. Coast Guard abandons plan to remove navigational buoys in the Northeast

FILE - A large navigation buoy hit by strong winds and waves off the coast of Puerto Rico in this August 2015 photo. Mariners across New England are elated with the decision by the United States Coast ...
The Providence Journal

'Almost unfathomable': Why some want to sink Coast Guard's plan to remove dozens of buoys

The Coast Guard says that the way boaters navigate has changed in the era of GPS and electronic charts, but many smaller vessels lack that technology. Proposed changes would mean removing 6% of the ...
Newsday

U.S. Coast Guard buoy removal plan isn't floating well with some in Huntington

A U.S. Coast Guard plan to modernize maritime navigation systems could include removing hundreds of buoys and other markers in the Northeast, and that has the attention of Huntington officials, who ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Unmarked waters: Funding woes leave boaters facing a summer without channel markers on Conn. River

A boat slows down as it enters the no-wake zone in front of Sportsman’s Marina in Hadley. A boat slows down as it enters the no-wake zone in front of Sportsman’s Marina in Hadley. NORTHAMPTON — ...
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Plan that could remove some navigational buoys from Maine coast is now on hold

The United States Coast Guard has put its Coastal Buoy Modernization Proposal (CBMP) on hold for now after getting a lot of public feedback. The Coast Guard says it received more than 3,200 comments ...