New York State is preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision to permanently allow dumping of
dredged material in the Long Island Sound, according to a press release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.
In January, the district began dredging Veteran Acres Pond and transporting
the dredged material in dump trucks to Lippold Park.
Suffolk County lawmakers and local environmentalists are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reject the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers» latest plan for disposing of
dredged materials in Long Island Sound.
Lawmakers also were considering joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop the federal government from dumping
dredging material in the Long Island Sound.
In 2005, the state called for, and the EPA agreed, to establish a goal of reducing or eliminating
dredged materials in open waters of Long Island Sound, the governor said.
New York State is formally objecting to the federal government's plan to continue dumping
dredged materials in Long Island Sound.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its final decision to allow a new site to dump
dredged materials in Long Island Sound.
On Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a 30 - year - plan for the continued dumping of
dredge material in the Long Island Sound.
Not exact matches
Gary Schaefer, president of Hey & Associates, which oversees the
dredging project for the Park District, learned that some of the truckers working for Elgin - based Martam Construction Inc. had put diesel fuel
in their truck beds to keep the
material from adhering when it was dumped.
Madda said he feared that carcinogens
in the
dredged material would find their way into Crystal Lake.
George Boulet, chairman of the Crystal Lake Watershed Management and Lake Ecology Agency, said he believed the lead and arsenic could safely be contained at Lippold Park if the
dredged material were encased
in clay.
If that doesn't sound rushed, consider this:
In her comments at a hearing in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.&raqu
In her comments at a hearing
in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.&raqu
in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The
Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.»
That lack of communication might explain why, after 10 years
in development, the
Dredged Material Management Plan was approved within months of the hearings.
Federal environmental officials today dismissed protests from New York and issued a final ruling that will allow operation of an open - water site
in eastern Long Island Sound for disposing of
dredged materials from harbors and ports.
Those
materials, like silt and sand, are
dredged by the Corps from waterways — mainly
in Connecticut — to keep them navigable.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo joined Long Island politicians
in Sunken Meadow State Park to call on the EPA to reject the Army Corps of Engineer's plan to continue dumping
dredged materials into Long Island Sound for the next 30 years
Officials there say small marinas and the Naval Submarine Base
in Groton rely on having a long - term placement site for
dredged materials.
They say the continued dumping of
dredged materials from Connecticut will adversely affect quality of life
in Long Island.
Corps program manager Steven Wolf said at the September public hearing that
dredged materials must be signed off on by the Environmental Protection Agency and the state before they're disposed of
in open waters.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, backed by about 30 elected officials, announced on Thursday the state may take legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency to stop a plan to allow dumping
in Long Island Sound of
materials dug up from
dredging.
Two other areas
in Niantic Bay and near Cornfield Shoals could also be used for
dredge material dumping instead of, or
in addition to, the eastern Long Island Sound site.
Red storms are Jupiter's most violent; their churning rises five miles above the stable cloud bed and
dredges up
material from deep
in the atmosphere.
Today it is an almost completely paved naval air base built atop earthen
material dredged from the San Francisco Bay
in the 1930s.
Like Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS), the storm swirls
in an anti-cyclonic direction and is
dredging up
material from deep inside the ice giant planet's atmosphere.
This heavy element upwells from a star's core (where it is produced) to the surface (near where it is observed)
in a phase called the third
dredge - up, when
material in deep helium - burning layers is brought to the surface through convection.
(4) Drilling into,
dredging, or otherwise altering the submerged lands of the Sanctuary; or constructing or placing any structure,
material, or other matter on or
in the submerged lands of the Sanctuary, except as incidental to and necessary to: (i) Anchor a vessel; (ii) Install an authorized navigational aid; (iii) Conduct lawful fishing activity; (iv) Lay pipeline pursuant to exploring for, developing, or producing hydrocarbons; or (v) Explore for, develop, or produce hydrocarbons as allowed by paragraph (a)(1) of this section.
In the late 1940s The San Diego Harbor Commission undertook a
dredging program that provided a new entrance to the yacht basin, and the
dredged material was used to connect Shelter Island with Point Loma, and to further raise the island 14 feet above low tide; then another project raised it 7 feet above high tide.
The sandbar was used to dump
materials from
dredging of San Diego Bay for US Navy requirements
in World War II which required a deepening of the harbor channel, further building it up.
It was built up into dry land using
material dredged from the bay
in 1934.
At the federal level, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has to issue permits to «
dredge or fill
materials» into waterways and wetlands and must approve any construction
in or over «navigable waters.»
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — The three leading environmental advocacy organizations
in the Hudson Valley — Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson — applauded today the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume
dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at
dredging locations to reduce spillage of
material back into the river and re-suspension of PCBs.
Back when I was on the ground
in the Gulf, I reported that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal had announced a plan to stop the oil spill from reaching his state's shoreline: building up barrier islands out of
dredged materials to act as