Sentences with phrase «dredge spoils»

Suffolk County lawmakers, civic leaders and environmentalists urged Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Tuesday to veto a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to continue dumping as much as 53 million cubic yards of dredge spoils in Long Island Sound over the next three decades.

Suffolk County lawmakers, civic leaders and environmentalists urged Cuomo to veto a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to continue dumping as much as 53 million cubic yards of dredge spoils in Long Island Sound over the next three decades.

cf: instead of transporting same to the Whitehurst Pit, Craney Island, Popular Island and other USACE designated vertical dredge spoil deposition sites.

This map shows the green - shaded areas of the former Roth Steel site, where the Onondaga County industrial Development Agency plans to deposit roughly 120,000 cubic yards of dredge spoils from the Syracuse Inner Harbor.

We wish he had done more to stop the Federal Aviation Administration's extension of the North Shore Helicopter Route earlier this year, and believe it would be wise for him to protect Long Islanders against dredge spoil dumping in the Long Island Sound in this next term.

Bill Toedter, president of the North Fork Environmental Council, and nearly 30 local environmental group leaders signed a letter addressed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo stating they oppose the proposal because it calls for disposing between 30 to 50 million cubic yards of dredge spoils into the Sound over the next 30 years.

Last week, delegates warned that the Great Barrier Reef could be placed on a list of threatened sites due to plans to dump up to 3 million cubic meters of dredge spoils inside the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

She says research from Gladstone shows dredge spoil moves much further than previously thought.

Witness: the pipeline dredging of shipping channels in the Mississippi River and placement of the associated dredge spoils, on long 1:6 intertidal slopes just seaward of eroded shorelines.

Especially when considering the savings in disposal (repositioning) navigation channel dredge spoils....

You reported on plans to dispose of dredge spoil in Great Barrier Reef waters (8 February, p 7).

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) chairman Russell Reichelt said he recognised there was intense community concern and debate about the application by North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation to dispose of dredge spoil in the park.

Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said his town's concerns — including the potential use of 450 acres of Mattituck agricultural land to de-water 2 million cubic yards of dredge spoil — were entirely «ignored.»

If the dredge spoils appear to be too contaminated for beneficial use, the project will be reconsidered, he said.

In March, Suffolk lawmakers and local environmentalists urged Gov. Cuomo to reject the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers» plan for about 53 million cubic yards of dredge spoils to be dumped into the Sound over the next 30 years.

That concern involves the suggestion that 450 acres of agricultural land in Mattituck might be a feasible location for de-watering 2 million cubic yards of dredge spoil.

The plan calls for about 53 million cubic yards of dredge spoils — which opponents say could contain toxic materials such as mercury, lead, PCBs and pesticides — to be dumped into the Sound over the next 30 years.

The final version of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, or WIIN, didn't go as far as some earlier drafts in reforming how sediment is handled, such as by laying out new rules for how the Army Corps uses its dredging spoils.

The Marine Park Authority will decide by the end of the week if it will allow the dredge spoil to be dumped in the Marine Park Area.