Comments
to Halt the Delaware Deepening
The Center represents Sierra Club, Delaware Audubon Society, Delaware
Nature Society, New Jersey Environmental Federation, National Wildlife
Federation, and DRKN in their efforts to stop the Army Corps of Engineer's
("Corps") proposal to deepen the main channel of the Delaware
River. In particular, the Center successfully petitioned the State of
Delaware to require the Corps to obtain a "subaqueous lands"
permit that requires a cost/benefit analysis for the project. During a
December 2001 hearing, the Center submitted comprehensive written and
oral comments regarding the legal sufficiency of the Corps' subaqueous
lands permit application.
Read our comments ( 34.73 Kb) regarding
the Army Corps of Engineers' Application for a Delaware Subaqueous Lands
Act Permit for Proposed Main Channel Deepening
On March 18, 2002, the Center submitted a reply to the Corps' response
to comments. Read our reply ( 28.03 Kb)
to the Army Corps of Engineers' response.
On April 22, 2002, the Corps suspended work on its plan to dredge the
Delaware River, pending a reanalysis of the project's costs and benefits.
Read
an article from the Wilmington News Journal about the topic - April 23,
2002.
Read
an article from the Wilmington News Journal about the topic - November
12, 2002
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