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Coast Guard turning over lighthouse operation to local govts??

Here's an interesting item:

It appears that the West Point lighthouse is being gifted by the USCG to the Seattle Parks Dept.

This is an active and important light.

I wonder if the city plans to assume operation of the light or if the USCG will continue to maintain the nav. aid. (Like nearly all lights these days,I believe the West Point Light is fully automated)

Office of Public Affairs U.S. Coast Guard Thirteenth District

Press Release Date: Oct. 11, 2005 Contact: PA2 Kurt Fredrickson (206) 220-7237

WEST POINT LIGHTHOUSE CHANGES OWNERSHIP

SEATTLE - The West Point Lighthouse will be officially turned over to Seattle Parks and Recreation during a ceremony Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., at Discovery Park in Seattle. For more information click on the following link. http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/DiscoveryPark/Lighthouse.pdf

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 chuckgould.chu...
Oct 11
2005
If it's like the lighthouses I am familiar with, in Maine, the USCG continues to take responsibility for the ATON, with the clear understanding that life would be easier for them if the building were demolished, and the light set up on a steel pole. The local group is completely responsible for the restoration and perpetual maintenance of the building(s). http://tinyurl.com/bhgpp

http://www.islandinstitute.org/programs.asp?section=communitysupport&subsection=Maine_Lighthouses

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Sal's
Oct 11
All lights used in navigation are automated, and all lights but one are unmanned but visited regularly for routine mx, etc. The Boston Light, on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor is the oldest lighthouse in the country, and is a manned lighthouse. The light is staffed partially by a program of the USCGAux, under the aegis of the USCG 1st District.

See:

http://www.uscgaux.org/~013/Boston_light/BL%20Overview.htm

John
Oct 11
That's been happening a lot with area lighthouses. The Mukilteo lighthouse grounds and buildings were leased to the city of Mukilteo in 1991, and given outright to the city in 2001. Though owned by the city, the navigational equipment is still ostensibly maintained by the USCG.

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=32

"Ostensibly" because about all the maintenance that is required is washing the glass and occasionally changing one of the bulbs, and that is probably handled by Mukilteo Historical Society volunteers.

Aside: My first Scoutmaster was the last CG assigned to and stationed at the Mukilteo lighthouse. We used to have our Scout meetings in the basement of Quarters B: http://www.lighthousefriends.com/mukilteo5.jpg

 Garth
Oct 11
   
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