Life on the river (#28)
The Ross Island Sand & Gravel tugboat sits just offshore from OMSI, waiting for a barge to finish loading at the waste rock dump pier (waste rock from the Eastside Big Pipe project; the cutter uses slip as lubricant, which gets contaminated with rock debris, so the used slip is pumped back to the pipehead just west of Portland Traction’s East Portland yard, cleaned, and returned to the cutting face, while the rock debris is, apparently, sold to Ross Island Sand & Gravel (FOB 50 meters west of the east bank of the Willamette River) for, I dunno, concrete aggregate?
Anyhow, the tug has been doing daily pickups from the dump pier for at least the last year and a half. It was doing it when I was still working for my last set of Corporate Masters™, and it was doing it today when I was (slowly) returning home with 55 pounds of shimmy-inducing catfood on the back of the Xtracycle.