Sentences with phrase «said dredging»

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said she sympathizes with affected residents but said dredging could cost millions of dollars.

Honeywell said dredging of Onondaga Lake has gone so well the job will be done in 2014 — a year ahead of schedule.

The agency has said dredging is needed to ensure safe navigation.

Ryan McMahon, county legislature chairman, said the dredging would deepen the harbor to at least eight feet.

Honeywell says dredging will be finished this year and the entire cleanup project will be done in 2016.

GE Spokesman Marc Behan says dredging has been a success.

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.

He says dredging is important to Connecticut's economy.

New York State environmental officials say dredging and capping pollution in Onondaga Lake will begin this summer.

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

In a world - first study published today, researchers say dredging activity near coral reefs can increase the frequency of diseases affecting corals.

Not exact matches

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) chairman Russell Reichelt said he recognised there was intense community concern and debate about the application by North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation to dispose of dredge spoil in the park.

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).

The Environmental Protection Agency says the Michigan incident showed that, unlike other types of crude, bitumen can sink in water — the Kalamazoo will have to be dredged to contain damage — and might emit dangerous levels of benzene, a carcinogenic substance, when it breaks out.

«They feel like they are dredging it up from the past,» Grosser said.

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.

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.

«They're designed to hold a lot of water while the dredging is going on,» said Mike McGarry, who oversees dredging projects for Brevard County Natural Resources Management Department.

Pat: Every pioneer needs our prayers, but people like Rob Bell have no illusions that what they are saying will not only stir the waters of religiosity, but dredge up some very deep seated monsters while they're at it.

And while I hate to dredge up the past too much, I think Steve McLaren would be wise to remember something the most successful England manager once said: â $ œMy job is not to always pick the best players.

In Abu Dhabi Martin Brundle dredged it all back up again though when he said to Lewis: «After the crash in Spain there was a story you said «I'm going to stop, I'm going to give up».

Kristin Violante, the superintendent of parks and recreation, said plans call for dredging the pond and planting native prairie grasses and flowers around the...

Glen Ellyn Park District officials say they hope the third effort to secure state funding to dredge Lake Ellyn will be successful.

Although the gun club insists that the lead is inert, it has said it would dredge the lake.

Revenue generated by the tax increase also would pay for a $ 1.4 million project to dredge Lake Ellyn and $ 1.8 million in field renovations at some of the district «s 26 parks during the next six years, Gordon said.

«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.

He said Park District officials had talked three years ago to the homeowners association about possible improvements that would have included dredging the lagoon.

The EPA has put its review of whether Hudson River PCB dredging has been successful on hold while it evaluates new information from New York state, EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez said.

Fort Edward Supervisor Mitch Suprenant said Cuomo's statement convinced him that GE should do more dredging to remove the PCBs.

«The law is clear: EPA can not possibly support a finding that GE's limited dredging has been sufficient to protect New Yorkers» public health and the environment,» Schneiderman said.

Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said his town's concerns — including the potential use of 450 acres of Mattituck agricultural land to de-water 2 million cubic yards of dredge spoil — were entirely «ignored.»

«For 25 years GE had the EPA tied in a pretzel,» Enck said, referring to GE's multi-million dollar effort to fight dredging.

If the dredge spoils appear to be too contaminated for beneficial use, the project will be reconsidered, he said.

And, says Phillip Musegaas, less dredging and less pile driving is a positive in the eyes of environmental group Riverkeeper.

Located in the heart of the district is Como Lake Park, a 534 - acre county park with a lake that has not been properly maintained, said Morton, who has pushed for the lake to be dredged.

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.»

DEC officials dismissed her after it came to light that the truck had been hired by a General Electric contractor to cater an event on GE's Niskayuna campus; agency officials said DEC's work on GE's PCB dredging project on the Hudson should have raised a red flag for Loguidice.

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.

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.

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.

Coughlan said the retweeted comment was from more than a year ago, was taken out of context and is being dredged up by Republicans trying to sabotage his election.

In a letter sent Friday to Judith Enck, regional administrator of the EPA, attorneys from Mr. Schneiderman's office said the agency should delay awarding a «certificate of completion» to GE for the dredging work.

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.

Workers dredging water courses in and around Tema Community 18 were scared off their routine when an embittered land owner pulled a gun at them, says Alhajia Zainab Abdulai, Tema Metropolitan Director for National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO).

«It may be dressed up in academic think - tank language, but this is no more than a crude attack on basic workplace rights and a charter for bad bosses everywhere,» she said, dredging up the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's premiership and telling the authors to «get out more».

Capital NY noted this morning that the Republicans are on the offensive and dredging up old convictions not just in this race, but also in the 60th SD (Grisanti's seat), where they are reminding voters that the Democrat who emerged from Tuesday's primary, Marc Panepinto, had his law license suspended for 30 days in 2001 after pleading guilty to falsely saying he witnessed voters sign nominating petitions.

On the Bakassi Deep Sea Port dredging contract, he said: «The project is real and that is part of what I discussed with Mr. President and the president has given his commitment that he'll support the deep sea port and the evacuation corridor which is the 260 km super highway.

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.