Sentences with phrase «dredging sediment»

University of Queensland scientist Selina Ward says dredging sediment smothers corals, exposes them to poisons and reduces photosynthesis.

He and fellow Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman say the EPA plan will allow tens of millions of cubic yards of dredged sediments to be dumped in the waterway that divides Long Island and Connecticut.

New York state has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing a plan to allow dredged sediments to be dumped into the Long Island Sound.

The team dredged sediment downstream from Rome in the harbor basin at Portus, a maritime port of imperial Rome, and from a channel connecting the port to the Tiber River.

«I'm pleased to see the WIIN Act encourage the beneficial use of dredged sediment.»

Instead, the law directs the agency to run 10 pilot projects across the country in which dredged sediment will be used to restore and protect coastlines instead of being dumped as waste, often at sea.

Not exact matches

Brevard County officials say they the containment areas that hold muck from recent dredging projects will be able to withstand Hurricane Irma, without spilling muck sediments back into the Indian River Lagoon.

General Electric reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to dredge PCB - laden sediment from the river between Troy and Fort Edward, a roughly 40 - mile stretch.

GE has won approval from the EPA to shut down a 100 - acre plant the company has used during a seven - year project to treat polluted sediment dredged from the bed of the Hudson River.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos says dredging improved the Hudson but the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to re-evaluate the six - year project and get objective analysis in its ongoing review of fish, water and sediment data.

It conducts all phases of remediation work, including heavy civil / marine construction, sediment dredging, soil stabilization, and geotechnical construction.

The project was completed in less time than expected with less secondary impacts than predicted, such as re-suspending sediments into the water column during dredging.

While earlier intervention by the Cuomo administration would have been welcome, its recent demand for additional dredging of at least 136 acres of contaminated sediment is both timely and important.

The announcements Thursday marked the sixth and final season of dredging PCB - contaminated sediments from the bottom of a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson between Fort Edward and Troy.

The dredging kept it from silting up as a result of intensified agriculture and construction on the mainland that caused greater soil erosion and runoff of sediments, especially in the Litani River.

Frazer said human activity such as pollution, overfishing, dropped anchors and sediment kicked up by dredging also causes chronic stress to the reefs.

Twelve miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Michigan, will be temporarily shut while Enbridge dredges approximately 350,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment.

Dredging the contaminated sediments is likely to reach $ 1.5 billion to $ 4.5 billion at the Areas of Concern.

In one typical proposal, the Dudgeon Point expansion, the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corp. has proposed to dredge 13 million cubic meters of sediment and dispose of it inside the Marine Park.

Dredging and sediment among the «stressors» Climate change is another threat, with warming oceans likely to lead to more extreme coral bleaching events, when corals lose the symbiotic algae that lend them their color.

Onboard our research vessel, the RV Sally Ride, are eight containers, each as large as a compact car, filled with sediment dredged from the deep Pacific Ocean floor.

The bill is an early bipartisan step toward reforming how the Army Corps of Engineers manages sediment scooped up while dredging for the shipping sector.

That could lead to new rules and procedures affecting the use of sediment dug up during federal dredging work.

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.

Brodie says that if you add up all the proposed dredging along the reef, it will come to 140 million tonnes of sediment over the next decade.

«Sediment from dredging can smother corals and seagrasses and expose them to poisons and elevated nutrients.»

Marsh creation or «dredging» uses sediment from the Mississippi River, nearby water bottoms or offshore shoals to build land in shallow, open water areas, typically where land has been lost.

The reef is supposedly almost dead from the combined effects of a warming climate, nutrient pollution from Australian farms, and smothering sediment from offshore dredging.

Yet in 2014, the GBRMA approved a permit for a state - owned coal terminal operator to dump as much as 3 million cubic meters of dredged mud and sediment inside the park.

Manna Jo Greene, environmental director of Clearwater, said: «We commend the EPA's action — they did not have to stop the dredging, but elected to err on the side of caution by stopping until sediment resuspension was minimized, and then resumed slowly and carefully to try to prevent reoccurrences.

Much of the color likely comes from resuspended sediment dredged up from the sea floor in shallow waters.

TERRY Hughes, who heads the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies headquartered at James Cook University... (said)... «Coastal reefs have been obliterated by run - off of sediment, dredging, and pollution.»

The bill is an early bipartisan step toward reforming how the Army Corps of Engineers manages sediment scooped up while dredging for the shipping sector.