Dive to Lake Champlain tug now set for the spring

[July 30, 2010]  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Plans to check out a sunken tugboat in Lake Champlain for potential fuel leakage won't happen until spring.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Paul Kahn said Thursday that there isn't time to arrange a dive before unpredictable fall weather arrives.

The William H. McAllister sank about five miles south of Port Kent, N.Y., in November 1963 after it hit a reef. Officials worry it could hold diesel fuel and lubricants that could spill and cause an environmental disaster.

The EPA is working with the U.S. Navy to supply the divers. Lake Champlain is on the border between Vermont and upstate New York.

[Associated Press]

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