Sentences with phrase «dredging sites»

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Researchers began daily dives to gather coral in and around the dredge site on May 26 after Illinois - based dredging contractor Great Lakes Dredge & Dock finished relocating about 900 more mature corals to an artificial reef as required by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Dredge Site (Cayo Gayo) South of Hol Chan, a commercial shrimp boat, the «C - Hi», wrecked on the reef in the early 70's.

Pure Color of the Hudson (after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General Electric dredging site, processed waste coal from power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.

Not exact matches

McGarry, referring to the muck containment site off U.S. 1 for the recent Turkey Creek dredging, said Hurricane Irma would have to deliver 36 inches of rain before any water would need to be released from the site.

Muck dredged up from Turkey Creek was pumped to a storage site just north of the creek near U.S. 1 and Robert J. Conlan Boulevard.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on BP Adams and other elected officials demanding the City stop dredging at a trash plant site in Gravesend.

SARANAC LAKE — Pontiac Bay Superfund site cleanup moves from the preparation stage to the dredging phase this week, now that the 50 - foot - high white structure covering the loading site is up.

This map shows the green - shaded areas of the former Roth Steel site, where the Onondaga County industrial Development Agency plans to deposit roughly 120,000 cubic yards of dredge spoils from the Syracuse Inner Harbor.

Enck said highlights of her seven years with the EPA included helping oversee General Electric Co.'s historic dredging of more than 300,000 pounds of PCBs from a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson River, which is the nation's largest Superfund site.

Connecticut and New York officials have been feuding for years over the issue of dredge disposal sites 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 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.

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.

The majority of dredging occurs in Connecticut and the dump sites are technically in that state's waters.

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

Local dredge dumping sites include Cornfield Shoals, just north of Greenport, and another near New London, west of Fishers Island.

The call for more cleanup on the Hudson comes about a year after GE dismantled its PCB processing site in Fort Edward, even though environmental groups wanted it to remain in place in case further dredging was needed.

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.

But the federal Superfund declaration elevates the government response to the situation, including the weight of a federal cleanup program that has been in place for more than 30 years and led to cleanups of severely polluted sites around the country, including dredging PCBs from the Hudson River.

He said Suffolk County has equipment to dredge only about five sites of 15 to 20 the trustees recommended in Southold this year.

Other projects, such as Peru's plans to dredge rivers to improve navigability, could exacerbate the ecological impact by changing flows, disturbing spawning sites, and disrupting the river - forest connection, says Fabrice Duponchelle of the French Institute of Research for Development in Marseille.

After polluted mud was dredged up, preliminary testing has shown that DDT levels are declining in bass and carp downstream of the site, Rockafellow said.

Free to choose the cheapest, most direct way to reach drilling sites, oil companies dredged canals off natural waterways to transport rigs and work crews.

Last week, delegates warned that the Great Barrier Reef could be placed on a list of threatened sites due to plans to dump up to 3 million cubic meters of dredge spoils inside the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

«With coral reefs facing a myriad of threats,» said Kimberly Puglise, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, «the finding of extensive reefs off Maui provides managers with a unique opportunity to ensure that future activities in the region, such as cable laying, dredging dump sites, and deep sewer outfalls, do not irreparably damage these reefs.»

There are many sites of interest close by including World War II B17 Bomber in Wau and the historic Gold Dredges dating back to the 1930s.

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).

Utah's Great Salt Lake has Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty of 1970, a massive iodine coil of more than 6000 tonnes of black basalt rocks and earth dredged from the site.

Everything I could dredge up at the time linked to an odd one - page web site (screen captured in a Yahoo search cache here, its current iteration seemingly just expired, more info here) with the most generic possible uninformative information about the ozone layer and global warming.

As a result, the 112,800 acres avoid sensitive habitat along the Chesapeake Bay, military training areas, marine vessel traffic, a dredge disposal site, and areas of concern specified by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

cf: instead of transporting same to the Whitehurst Pit, Craney Island, Popular Island and other USACE designated vertical dredge spoil deposition sites.

Its an effort that would require shipping coal by rail to the coast, and dredging and dumping waste in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage site in order to expand ports and channels for shipping the coal to India.

Specifically, we should stop squandering the navigation channel dredge spoils that the central government is, at some considerable expense, parking in a series of ill conceived (Chesapeake Bay watershed) USACE vertical dredge spoil sites.

our company is dredging company most of our employees works at sites on the dregers.