New Jersey has opened a new round in a running battle over plans to deepen the Delaware River's main shipping channel, asking a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court's rejection of its environmental challenges.
Although federal funding for the full 103-mile project remains in doubt, the Army Corps of Engineers hopes to begin deepening a second five-mile leg of the channel this summer between the Delaware Memorial Bridge and Fox Point.
Workers already have deepened a 12-mile section of the 400- to 1,000-foot-wide channel to 45 feet from its previous minimum of 40 feet between the bridge and the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal.
Although the state of Pennsylvania and business groups strongly support deepening the channel between Philadelphia and the Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey, Delaware and environmental organizations have opposed the project as not fully reviewed or as economically and environmentally unsound.
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You already can't eat most of the fish coming out of the DE river so why not dredge? The place is already a sess pool and can't get much worse.
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