A 1940s-era military tugboat is on the way to its final port of call after crews successfully removed it from the Delta near Stockton last week.

The Mazapeta sank Sept. 4 in Little Potato Slough near the former Herman and Helen’s Marina at the end of Eight Mile Road. It had approximately 1,600 gallons of diesel and engine oil, which was leaking heavily at first, but the holes were soon plugged and the spill contained by rubberized floating boom.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.