Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay to conduct ice-breaking operations in Buffalo

(U.S. Coast Guard/Photo by Petty Officer Bill Colclough) 

Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay to conduct ice-breaking operations in Buffalo Outer Harbor, Southern Approach Channel has been cancelled due to brash ice.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay was scheduled to conduct ice-breaking operations in the area of Buffalo Outer Harbor and Southern Approach Channel to the Port of Buffalo, Monday has been cancelled due to brash ice.

The motor vessel Algoma Enterprise is no longer arriving in the Port of Buffalo.

The Neah Bay and Canadian Coast Guard Ship Griffon both encountered heavy brash ice reported to be 5-feet thick offshore and made very little progress in clearing a channel to the port.