Sentences with phrase «additional dredging»

Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, a Democrat who represents many Hudson River communities, delivered a letter signed by several state lawmakers calling for additional dredging in the river.

In the strongest statement to date about the need for additional dredging in the Hudson River, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday afternoon that he was ready to sue for a «full, timely cleanup» of the PCBs dumped into the river decades ago by General Electric Co..

More than two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners LP pipeline spilled 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, U.S. EPA has ordered the company to do additional dredging to remove oil.

The soil will be spread in a low - lying area north of the pond at Veteran Acres along with additional dredged material, totaling up to 8,000 yards.

«And it's my hope that [EPA] Regional Administrator Lopez will adhere to his own exhortation of June of 2015 when he joined with other state legislators, New York state legislators, in calling on Governor Cuomo to do all in his power to direct GE to perform additional dredging.»

While earlier intervention by the Cuomo administration would have been welcome, its recent demand for additional dredging of at least 136 acres of contaminated sediment is both timely and important.

News Articles Gayathri Vaidyanathan E&E reporter March 15, 2013 More than two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners LP pipeline spilled 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, U.S. EPA has ordered the company to do additional dredging to remove oil.

While GE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deserve credit for the partial cleanup of some PCB hotspots completed last fall, the unholy alliance of polluter and regulator in fending off calls for additional dredging is the major obstacle to a healthy river and economic revitalization of upriver community waterfronts.

«There's been a 70 percent decline in PCB levels in water, and declines at every single station where environmental data are collected, and EPA expects those declines to continue going forward, and it said the project will protect public health and the environment and that no additional dredging was recommended,» Behan says.

Kaminsky said he doesn't have an estimate on how much a South Shore ferry service would cost, because it would depend on the cost of infrastructure upgrades to the surrounding area and on the need for additional dredging.

EPA declared the project a success and said no additional dredging is warranted,» company spokesman Mark Behan said in a prepared statement.

The strong stand by state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos and the leadership of Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney in calling for additional dredging is a major turning point in the 40 - year campaign for a cleaner Hudson.

After the company picked Boston, the state called for additional dredging and more testing.

It has until the end of the year to complete the additional dredging.

It also indicated that additional dredging will be needed to meet those goals, which were the basis of New York's concurrence with the cleanup plan.

Furthermore, DEC Commissioner Seggos made clear in his letter that the need for additional monitoring should not be an excuse for the EPA to delay a formal finding that the cleanup has failed to meet its objectives and that additional dredging is needed.