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Getting Oriented
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. |
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