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Lipinski joins foes of Worth quarry plan: Army Corps wants to fill pit with silt.

Byline: Stanley Ziemba

Jan. 26--U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) asked the Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday to scrap its plan to use a former Worth quarry to dispose of silt dredged from the Calumet-Sag Channel. "There's a real concern among Worth residents and the surrounding suburbs about what a dredging operation will mean to their environment," Lipinski said in a tour of the 70-acre Lucas-Berg Pit on the south side of 111th Street west of Harlem Avenue. "The dumping literally would occur in a lot of people's back yard." Joining Lipinski were Worth Village President Ed Guzdziol; U.S. Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.), the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations ...

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