Sentences with phrase «dredged materials»

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.

Less than a week after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state is preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, local officials and environmentalists have extended their support to the state, which is challenging the federal agency's decision to permanently allow dumping of dredged material in Long Island Sound.

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.

They say the continued dumping of dredged materials from Connecticut will adversely affect quality of life in Long Island.

The controversial plan is the Corps» response to a 2005 mandate from New York and Connecticut aimed at phasing out the practice of dumping dredged materials into Long Island Sound.

They expressed concern for the health of the water that divides Long Island and Connecticut if dredged materials, possibly containing toxins, were dumped back into it over the next 30 years.

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.

Jim Madda, a Crystal Lake dentist, said he became alarmed when he walked past piles of dredged material on a wintry day and smelled petroleum fumes and noticed some of the muck was not freezing.

«They reclaim the land, use dredging material, do a whole variety of things to reshape the shoreline, like we first did when we were New Amsterdam.»

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.

A reckless plan to increase dumping of dredged material thwarts continued progress.»

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 officials wanted any clean dredge materials to be «reused» to restore beaches, sand dunes and tidal wetlands, but Connecticut experts said there would be far too much material dredged up to be disposed of without open water sites.

Cuomo, along with more than two dozen federal, state and local elected officials from New York, sent a letter to President Obama and top officials at the EPA announcing the state is taking steps to head off the proposal for the permanent dumping site, which will move dredged materials from Connecticut to the eastern end of the sound.

But some Long Island lawmakers, including Congressman Lee Zeldin, New York State Senator Ken LaVall, and Assemblyman Steve Englebright, have said they're worried dredged material could pollute the Sound.

Narrow exceptions were created for certain U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge materials that occasionally are deposited offshore.

Less common nesting habitat includes bluff - backed beaches, dredged material disposal sites, salt pond levees, dry salt ponds, and river bars (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2001).

To shield and protect boats from wicked weather, storms and high waves, it was built up into dry land by dredging material from the bay in 1934.

Transferred dredged materials utilizing equipment such as PC400 excavator, Volvo A23C off - road trucks, Komatsu wa320 front end loader, and skid steers

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

«If dredging material can be used to help protect or regenerate coastlines, then we have a double benefit, both ending damage at sea and improving coastal protection,» says Radley of English Nature.

Officials there say small marinas and the Naval Submarine Base in Groton rely on having a long - term placement site for dredged materials.

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.

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.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and dozens of Long Island elected officials are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to stop the Army Corp of Engineers» plan to continue to dump dredged materials into Long Island Sound for the next 30 years.

It calls for continued dumping of dredged materials into areas of the Sound.

In January, the district began dredging Veteran Acres Pond and transporting the dredged material in dump trucks to Lippold Park.

«It's hard to pin down how much dredging will cost because we don't know how much we need to dredge or where we're going to put the dredged material,» said Park District Executive Director Robert Dunsmuir.

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.

The Park District estimated that 67 truckloads of dredged material had been tainted with diesel fuel.

Brookhaven Town officials said they intend to join the state's lawsuit seeking to block a federal plan to dump dredged material in the eastern end of Long Island Sound.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday that the State of New York would be taking legal action against the EPA after it said in 2016 it would dump dredged materials into the eastern Sound.

New York officials want all dredged materials to be reused to restore beaches, salt marshes and dunes, or to be disposed of someplace other than the Sound.

The dredged material will be dumped at the former Roth Steel site near the Onondaga Lake shore, which the county IDA bought in 2015 to prevent its use as a scrapyard.

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.»

That lack of communication might explain why, after 10 years in development, the Dredged Material Management Plan was approved within months of the hearings.

A month later, the EPA reached a conclusion to allow dumping of dredge materials.

According to the EPA, dumping some of the dredge material in one part of the eastern Long Island Sound about 1 1/2 miles northwest of Fishers Island concentrates «the effects, if any, of disposal practices to small, discrete areas that have already received dredged material, and avoid distributing any effects over a larger geographic area.»

The Suffolk County Legislature approved a resolution to join a lawsuit with New York State against the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to dump dredging materials from Connecticut into the 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.

New York State is formally objecting to the federal government's plan to continue dumping dredged materials in Long Island Sound.

A long - simmering dispute over dumping dredged materials from rivers and harbors into Long Island Sound has flared up again with a new federal plan to govern disposal sites.

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.

Corps staffers who worked on the latest draft proposal also said the plan includes a scoring system to determine alternative disposal methods and locations for dredged materials, such as constructing marshlands.

Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said she believes the Corps has to stop using the Sound «as a dumpster» and find alternative ways to dispose of dredged materials.

The Corps approved its Dredged Material Management Plan Jan. 11.

Mr. Krupski also attended a public hearing held by the Corps in September in Riverhead to state his concern that dredged materials could harm water quality in the Sound and submitted a letter signed by all 18 members of the Suffolk County Legislature opposing the plan, which he described as a «lazy and cheap way out.»

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.

Ms. Esposito is just one of the Long Island advocates criticizing the EPA's recent conclusion, released yesterday as part of the larger plan coordinated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to continue to dump the dredge materials in Long Island Sound.