Sentences with phrase «use dredging material»
«They reclaim the land, use dredging material, do a whole variety of things to reshape the shoreline, like we first did when we were New Amsterdam.»
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Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said she believes the Corps has to stop using the Sound «as a dumpster» and find alternative ways to dispose of dredged materials.
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.
«If dredging material can be used to help protect or regenerate coastlines, then we have a double benefit, both ending damage at sea and improving coastal protection,» says Radley of English Nature.
For years the state has pressed the corps to pump the dredged material into adjacent, sinking marshes — a process called «beneficial use.»
In the late 1940s The San Diego Harbor Commission undertook a dredging program that provided a new entrance to the yacht basin, and the dredged material was used to connect Shelter Island with Point Loma, and to further raise the island 14 feet above low tide; then another project raised it 7 feet above high tide.
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.