The Coast Guard has packed up and left Bridgewater after overseeing cleanup operations at a dock on the LaHave River that was home to three derelict vessels.

The dock located at the bottom of Glen Allen Drive has been a busy worksite since May when crews first arrived to dismantle the Cape Rouge, Hannah Atlantic and Rubert Brand IV.

The Hannah Atlantic, Cape Rouge, and the Rupert Brand VI at a dock on the LaHave River. Photo: Canadian Coast Guard.

The three vessels were dismantled on-site and removed from the water over the summer. It was decided at the outset that the ships couldn’t be towed out of the river as their deteriorated condition posed too high of contamination risk for them to be moved.

After the final ship was removed in August, remediation of the dock site then began. The process involved cleaning up any oil spills or slicks left behind from the ships as well as clearing the water of any debris that came from the ships.

That work was completed on September 24, effectively bringing an end to the cleanup operation.

An aerial view of The Hannah Atlantic, Cape Rouge, and the Rupert Brand VI. Photo: Canadian Coast Guard.

Now that the site is free of the derelict ships and fully clean it’s owners United Gulf Developments can move forward with their plans. United Gulf Developments President Jacob Ritchie indicated that now that the site is clean they can move forward with plans to develop the site and hope to have plans to share with the public later this fall.