Sentences with phrase «dredging operations»

In my last blog, I detailed major missteps of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its oversight of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup of toxic PCBs, including allowing the polluter, General Electric, to decommission its massive dredging operations before the agency determined whether the cleanup had met its goals, and ignoring pleas from other federal agencies and evidence that more dredging is needed to restore the river's health.

• Expanded dredging operations will be necessary to keep major ports open in the Northern Hemisphere, which will increase costs.

All of the river's Natural Resource Trustees are united in calling for more dredging — something that could have happened much sooner, and at much less cost, if the EPA had heeded the trustees» recommendation to prevent GE from dismantling its dredging operations.

Whales and Dolphins can be affected by off shore wind farms by: • seismic exploration; • intense noise due to ramming / piling, drilling and dredging operations; • increased vessel activities during exploration and construction and later maintenance operations, • increased turbidity due to construction and cable laying; and, later, • decommissioning of wind farms.

Physical habitat damage from drilling and dredging operations, combined with possible impacts of oil and chemical spills on benthic prey communities also warrants concern.

Caye Chapel Dredging operations in front of the hotel revealed large sections of wooden planking, many with fastenings of trunnels (wooden peg).

But first, the NRA has to establish whether the dredging operations will harm the area's crabs.

His work is part of a year - long project to assess whether proposed dredging operations on a sandbank 30 kilometres north of the Norfolk coast will disrupt local crab fisheries.

Cohen says that according to the historical accounts, it took Emperor Yu 22 years to bring the floodwaters under control through massive dredging operations, after which he established the dynasty marking China's transition to modernisation.

Due to pollution of the Hudson River caused by GE's PCB dredging operations, Saratoga County had to move its plant to the town of Moreau, in the northern portion of the county.

Dozens of state legislators, most of them Democrats, have called on GE to extend dredging operations in the upper Hudson River near two shuttered capacitor plants in Fort Edward, which dumped over a million pounds of PCBs in the river from the 1940s through the 1970s.

GE has also begun dismantling its headquarters at Fort Edward that were the base for its Hudson River dredging operations.

«While we are grateful that GE has fully met the requirements of Phase 2 dredging, we are deeply concerned by reports from federal, state and independent natural resource scientists indicating that significant PCB «hot spots» will remain after the company's dredging operations shut down later this year.»

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.

Onondaga County officials said the planned dredging operation will help spur continued economic development of the harbor, a once - vacant tract where hotels, apartments and office buildings are being built.

The E.P.A. cautioned that it is far too early to say how the dredging operation might be modified.

Not exact matches

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.

«All three of the researchers said pretty much the same thing,» Landers said, explaining that while no one wants the turtles to die, protection efforts are based on whether the population — which in this case is threatened but recovering — will be affected by a certain number of deaths caused by operations such as harbor dredging.

He recalls one incident when his group spotted 11 hectares of forest loss in Peru, accompanied by extensive dredging — signs of an illegal gold mining operation.

Florida's coasts, for example, have lost significant seagrass, in large part from dredge and fill operations.

These factors included: dredge and fill operations, shoreline development, over fishing, excessive boating, land subsidence and natural events like hurricanes.

The clip introduces the important location of Hon Cau MPA, the native marine biodiversity with high scientific and economical values to the locals; and threats of coal power (through operation, discharge and dredging) to the MPA and to local livelihoods (fishing, salt, aquaculture etc.) This is a call to protect Hon Cau MPA from coal power impacts

Ms. Enck ignored their request and allowed GE to dismantle its operations — increasing the costs to resume dredging today.

Prior to becoming an attorney, William spent six years as a consultant at a boutique engineering and environmental firm where he managed all aspects of commercial marine construction projects, including commercial and multi-use docking facilities, marinas, dredge and fill operations, and seawall stabilization projects.

Operated dredge pipeline without supervision and assisted others in learning pipeline operations.

Commencing development work in 1964, with a massive dredging and filling operation, the dream unfolded which eventually would provide its residents with a variety of beach and bay front living.