COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) – Gov. Henry McMaster and the South Carolina Office of Resilience announced that it has begun its second and final phase of the USS Yorktown Remediation project.
Crews removed the one millionth gallon of toxic pollutants back in Feb. 2025.
The aircraft was converted to an attack aircraft carrier and was donated and relocated to the Charleston harbor in 1975, but it included potentially hazardous materials on board…