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Article: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS UPDATE STATUS OF SAGINAW RIVER NAVIGATIONAL DREDGING PROJECT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release:
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and United States Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, today announced an update in their discussions regarding the proposed navigational dredging of the Upper Saginaw River and disposal of the dredged material in a facility located in Saginaw County.
DEQ Director Steven E. Chester and Lt. Colonel William J. Leady, Commander of the Army Corps' Detroit District, have agreed that the dredging of the Saginaw River is critically important to the economic future of the region as well as having a secondary benefit of removing contaminated sediments from the ...