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GAO Study Stomps Delaware Dredging Project.(General Accounting Office criticizes the Army Corps of Engineers)(Brief Article)
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National Wildlife
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October 1, 2002
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2002 National Wildlife Federation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A recently released report from the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, should be another nail in the coffin of the misguided U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Delaware River dredging project that NWF and its affiliate, the Delaware Nature Society, have battled for years.
According to the GAO report, the Corps' economic justification of the project is fraught with "miscalculations, invalid assumptions, and the use of ...
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TOUSSAINT RIVER DREDGING PROJECT BACK ON TRACK
Capitol Hill Press Releases;
May 3, 1999 ;
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HORN ANNOUNCES PROGRESS IN PORT OF LONG BEACH DREDGING PROJECT
Capitol Hill Press Releases;
September 1, 1998 ;
316 words
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CHINA LAUNCHES DREDGING PROJECT ON YELLOW RIVER
AsiaInfo Services;
May 22, 2001 ;
300 words
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Agreement will make dredging project cleaner
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);
October 24, 2007 ;
COLLEEN DISKIN, STAFF WRITER;
310 words
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China Launches Dredging Project on Yellow River
Xinhua News Agency;
May 19, 2001 ;
243 words
...China has launched an ambitious dredging project to lower the bed of the Yellow River...Water Resources first suggested a dredging project in 1996, but it was not until the...the project. Experts say that the dredging project will lower the river bed and ensure...
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Mahoning River Dredging Project.
Corps Report;
February 16, 2005 ;
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...Mahoning River Dredging Project. The Corps will develop a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for a proposed dredging project along 31 miles of the Mahoning River in Pennsylvania to remove contaminated sediments. Contact: Curtis Meeder...
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Vic: Environmental OK needed for dredging project: Opposition
AAP General News (Australia);
March 21, 2007 ;
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Vic: Port dredging project delayed a few more years
AAP General News (Australia);
March 10, 2006 ;
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Dredging project to start in Round Lake Beach.(News)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);
January 23, 2007 ;
King, Jason;
286 words
......Jason King Daily Herald Staff Writer Round Lake Beach's dredging project is moving forward. And they're doing it sooner, rather...science. Mayor Rich Hill said the first portion of the dredging project will be done by April 15 of this year so as not to disrupt...
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Dredging Project May Bring Millions into Manatee, Fla., Port.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
June 18, 2004 ;
489 words
......News Jun. 18--A $38 million harbor dredging project decades in the planning could raise...Army Corps of Engineers. The harbor dredging project agreement, now in its final draft...early as July on Phase 2 of the harbor dredging project. Phase 1 was completed in 1996. In...
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Dredging project at Yellow River estuary starts
Xinhua News Agency;
August 24, 2004 ;
185 words
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Centre not to fund JNPT's dredging project
The Hindustan Times;
January 16, 2006 ;
256 words
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Second dredging project OK'd; Work would deepen 'choke point' area at...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;
November 24, 2004 ;
Chirag Rabari; CHIRAG RABARI;
517 words
......Scituate selectman voted unanimously to move ahead with a dredging project at the mouth of the South River despite cost concerns and...push forward with its plan despite a separate but related dredging project started last year but left unfinished by contractor M.A...
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NOT-SO-DEEP PORT; OVERDUE DREDGING PROJECT FINALLY ON THE HORIZON FOR...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
March 6, 2008 ;
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......powers-that-be have broken the logjam that kept funds from the port dredging project. It took the direct intervention of Sen. Chuck Schumer...legislation providing the $650,000 needed for the Oswego port dredging project had cleared crucial hurdles in both the Senate and the...
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