On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:29:04 -0600, "Mike"
wrote:

Dredging harms the Sound:

http://www.dec.ny.gov/environmentdec/19094.html

It should be even more restricted.


First you would have to have some idea what you are talking about,
which you obviously do not.

Yes, it's true. You can't just indiscriminately run around dredging
and dumping haphazardly. You need to know what you are digging up, and
where it can be put down without causing trouble. Norwalk Harbor is a
good example. It's the Norwalk River, which for a couple hundred years
was the repository for a lot of very dirty factory's excrement. These
days, not all dredged material is allowed to be dumped ANYWHERE in the
water. It has to be trucked inland away from the watershed and handled
appropriately.

North Cove is not likely to contain anything harmful. I'm sure they
will check, anyway. It's a small isolated harbor with pretty much
nothing immediately surrounding it other than a few homes and a
seasonal yacht club. The Connecticut runs past it, carrying tons of
filth directly into the Sound 24/7/365. You could probably use what
they dredge out of North Cove for fill in your vegetable garden.

In the overall scheme of things, all dredging combined isn't even a
blip on the RADAR compared with what gets dumped in the LIS daily by
hundreds of communities, as they have been doing since bar bands
consisted only of fifes and snare drums.