{"id":12841,"date":"2018-07-24T20:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=12841"},"modified":"2018-07-24T20:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:49:33","slug":"sunken-barge-crane-faces-legal-action-if-not-removed-providence-ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/sunken-barge-crane-faces-legal-action-if-not-removed-providence-ri\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunken Barge Crane faces legal action if not removed Providence, RI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can see the twisted steel from the highway driving through Providence. You can&#8217;t miss it if you&#8217;re on the water in the upper Providence River. A large crane and a barge have been submerged for about nine months, since October 2017. No government agency was holding its owner, Mark Ginalski, 60, of East Providence, responsible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"component-ddb-5x5-v2 ddb-no-margin position-1\">\n<div id=\"adslot2\" data-google-query-id=\"COecttfNuNwCFRauAQodywcPFw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/wjar\/Web\/news\/local_6__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/wjar\/Web\/news\/local_6\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/wjar\/Web\/news\/local_6\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The state Department of Environmental Management told the NBC 10 I-Team in April that the wreck wasn&#8217;t leaking oil. The Coast Guard said it wasn&#8217;t a pollution threat or a hazard to navigation. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had no involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the city of Providence has stepped in and issued a sternly worded demand letter to Ginalski to remove the crane or face legal action.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) \u2014\u00a0<\/span>You can see the twisted steel from the highway driving through Providence. You can&#8217;t miss it if you&#8217;re on the water in the upper Providence River. A large crane and a barge have been submerged for about nine months, since October 2017. No government agency was holding its owner, Mark Ginalski, 60, of East Providence, responsible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"component-ddb-5x5-v2 ddb-no-margin position-1\">\n<div id=\"adslot2\" data-google-query-id=\"COecttfNuNwCFRauAQodywcPFw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/wjar\/Web\/news\/local_6__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/wjar\/Web\/news\/local_6\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/wjar\/Web\/news\/local_6\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The state Department of Environmental Management told the NBC 10 I-Team in April that the wreck wasn&#8217;t leaking oil. The Coast Guard said it wasn&#8217;t a pollution threat or a hazard to navigation. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had no involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the city of Providence has stepped in and issued a sternly worded demand letter to Ginalski to remove the crane or face legal action.<\/p>\n<div class=\"component-ddb-1x1-v2 ddb-no-margin position-2\">\n<div id=\"adslot1\" data-google-query-id=\"CMbWs9fNuNwCFRytTwodnoUNfQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4756\/wjar\/Web\/news\/local_5__container__\">&#8220;The barge is an obstacle to the proper use of the waters for commercial and recreational purpose by the City and its residents,&#8221; wrote the harbormaster, Sgt. Kenneth Vinacco. He called the wreckage an \u201ceyesore\u201d and wrote, &#8220;If you fail to remove the barge from Providence Harbor by August 1, 2018, the city will take legal action.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ginalski didn&#8217;t want to answer the I-Team&#8217;s questions about<a title=\"http:\/\/turnto10.com\/i-team\/nbc-10-i-team-no-action-on-crane-and-barge-6-months-after-sinking\" href=\"http:\/\/turnto10.com\/i-team\/nbc-10-i-team-no-action-on-crane-and-barge-6-months-after-sinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0the sunken crane in April.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An NBC 10 I-Team investigation discovered he&#8217;s had other boats and barges sink over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think whoever did this should pay,&#8221; Ginalski told NBC 10 in 2014 when his tugboat was stolen and sank in East Providence.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, he was federally fined for causing an oil leak in coastal waters and separately for a crane collapse. In 2002, a Ginalski barge sank in the Warren River.<\/p>\n<p>Police and court records also show Ginalski&#8217;s been arrested or charged 28 times in his life. Allegations against him ranged from selling crack cocaine to stealing property and money.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza said Ginalski did contact the city\u2019s law department requesting a meeting. To date, no meeting has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>After the I-Team\u2019s original story, Ginalski left a reporter an expletive-laden voicemail and said he was going to put the reporter\u2019s picture up on the crane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019re going to look at it every mother (expletive) day, because I ain\u2019t touching that (expletive) barge,&#8221; said Ginalski.<\/p>\n<p>The city said legal action could include removing the barge and billing Ginalski, a fine, or imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can see the twisted steel from the highway driving through Providence. You can&#8217;t miss it if you&#8217;re on the water in the upper Providence River. A large crane and a barge have been submerged for about nine months, since October 2017. 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