Sentences with phrase «year dredging»

Seggos also suggested that General Electric, which under an agreement with the EPA last year completed a six - year dredging project, should be compelled to return and perform more cleanup work.

On Tuesday, Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos urged Judith Enck, regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to drastically beef up her plans to study remaining PCB toxicity levels in the river in the aftermath of a six - year dredging project by General Electric Co..

The lawmakers, led by Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan, want Cuomo to work with G.E. to continue cleaning up the river after the company finishes its six - year dredging project to remove PCBs on a 40 - mile stretch of the river.

The East Hampton Town Trustees have received a 10 - year dredging permit for Georgica Pond from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Honeywell International has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few years dredging and capping Onondaga Lake to remove and contain toxic chemicals from decades of pollution.

Not exact matches

This time the company dredged up the stubborn mature fine tailings after just three years of settling in the pond, added a polymer and pumped it onto a sloping beach to dry — which it now did, to a chunky clay, in a matter of weeks.

Not only does the brand owner have to dredge up information that is years old, but depending on the nature and origin of the evidence, it might also need to be notarized.

I have shied away from seeking therapy in the last few years because I don't want to dredge up old memories, feelings, etc..

That changed Sept. 6 when the water reclamation board voted to seek public bids for the lease, which specifies a 39 - year contract with a minimum $ 67,000 annual payment, in addition to performing regular dredging and maintenance.

But that changed Sept. 6 when the Water Reclamation Board voted to seek public bids for the lease, which specifies a 39 - year contract with a minimum $ 67,000 annual payment, in addition to performing regular dredging and maintenance.

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.

Life was amazing from there on still to this day my 2 1/2 year old prefers to sleep in his own bed and has a hard tome falling asleep with my husband and i. With my next child I'll start the same try to comfort my baby but if i come across dredging bedtime again I will still try the cio.

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

And Cox dredges up last year's mini-scandal of Liu's illegal campaign flyers.

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

That was a sharp contrast from a year ago, when the administration was trying to woo General Electric into locating its headquarters in New York and did not call for any additional action as the dredging of the river wound down.

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.»

We wish he had done more to stop the Federal Aviation Administration's extension of the North Shore Helicopter Route earlier this year, and believe it would be wise for him to protect Long Islanders against dredge spoil dumping in the Long Island Sound in this next term.

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.

That lack of communication might explain why, after 10 years in development, the Dredged Material Management Plan was approved within months of the hearings.

They expressed concern for the health of the water that divides Long Island and Connecticut if dredged materials, possibly containing toxins, were dumped back into it over the next 30 years.

«The last time dredging was done was 14 years ago at a cost of $ 300,000.»

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 March, Suffolk lawmakers and local environmentalists urged Gov. Cuomo to reject the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers» plan for about 53 million cubic yards of dredge spoils to be dumped into the Sound over the next 30 years.

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

«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.»

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.

Honeywell will announce today it has completed dredging 2.2 million cubic yards of contaminated lake bottom a year ahead of schedule.

Dredging began in July 2012, five years after a court settlement mandating the cleanup.

Connecticut's congressional delegation has endorsed a 30 - year U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan for dredging around Long Island Sound.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo joined Long Island politicians in Sunken Meadow State Park to call on the EPA to reject the Army Corps of Engineer's plan to continue dumping dredged materials into Long Island Sound for the next 30 years

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and dozens of Long Island elected officials are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to stop the Army Corp of Engineers» plan to continue to dump dredged materials into Long Island Sound for the next 30 years.

Honeywell said earlier this year that the Onondaga Lake dredging had gone so well it plans to finish this year instead of 2015 as originally scheduled.

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

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

McAuliffe and DEC regional director Ken Lynch signed the last of 122 interim dredging reports, officially ending two years of dredging.

«Once we repair the dam, we can open up the gate valves and eventually allow the water to flood through, which will then - not this year, but hopefully next year - allow us to dredge the lake.

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.

«The five - year review will consider the benefits to the Lower Hudson River from the Upper Hudson River dredging.

The DEC has notified federal officials that General Electric Co.'s seven - year, $ 1.6 billion dredging campaign to remove industrial pollutants from the Hudson River has been inadequate.

Federal regulators have approved General Electric's plan to dismantle a Hudson River PCB cleanup plant used during six years of dredging, which concluded this fall.

General Electric has maintained that it has completed all of EPA's mandated dredging and that it will remain on the river for monitoring efforts for years to come.

One year ago, General Electric wrapped up its dredging of a 40 - mile stretch of the Hudson River from Fort Edward to Troy.

On Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a 30 - year - plan for the continued dumping of dredge material in the Long Island Sound.

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.

General Electric and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have reached an agreement to study and develop a cleanup plan for the shorelines along the upper Hudson River, where GE has been dredging to remove contaminants for the past five years.

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.

Following years of study and political wrangling, GE dredged a 40 - mile stretch of the Hudson north of the Troy dam.

New York's environmental regulator has notified federal officials that General Electric Co.'s seven - year, $ 1.6 billion dredging campaign to remove industrial pollutants from the Hudson River has been inadequate.

Commissioner Basil Seggos of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation in a letter released Monday urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to closely scrutinize the effectiveness of dredging in its five - year project review, due to be released by April 2017.