July 26, 2016
HOUSTON — The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway is opened to all traffic near Galveston after a sunken barge east of the Galveston Causeway railroad bridge was refloated Tuesday evening.
The tugboat Brown Water VIII towed the dredge barge to the Kodiak scrap yard in Dickinson for salvage at about 4:40 p.m.
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