Sentences with phrase «dredged materials from»

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

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.

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.

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.

The waste bed is owned by Allied's successor, Honeywell International Inc., and sits next to another waste bed (No. 13) where Honeywell recently dumped dredge material from Onondaga Lake.

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WWF Australia has said the material dredged during the port expansion would be enough to fill 150,000 dump trucks that «lined up bumper - to - bumper would stretch from Brisbane to Melbourne», a distance of more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles).

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.

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.

Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski state and town officials and environmental advocates are calling for an end to the dumping of potentially toxic materials from dredging operations into 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.

Those materials, like silt and sand, are dredged by the Corps from waterways — mainly in Connecticut — to keep them navigable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After a renovation to transform what was a sandbank into dry land using material that was dredged from the bay, this 1.2 mile strip is known as a top destination for super-yachts.

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