[CPEO-MEF] SEDIMENT: Port Hueneme (CA) dredging

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hueneme dredging plan gets state OK
$13 million project to bury contaminants

By Scott Hadly
Ventura County Star (CA)
May 10, 2008


A massive dredging project at the Port of Hueneme that had been held up 
for decades because of sediment contamination was approved Friday by the 
California Coastal Commission.

The proposed solution is to dig a hole underwater in the harbor, fill it 
with the contaminated sediment from an area estimated to be about 70 
acres of surrounding seafloor, and then cap it with sand and gravel.

...

"It's critical both for the Navy and the harbor district to ensure 
harbor operations, and provide the design depths for commercial and Navy 
vessels to come in and out of the port."

The areas around the Oxnard Harbor District wharfs have not been dredged 
for almost two decades, while the Navy berths were last dredged in 1965.

The Coastal Commission's approval of the dredging plan came over the 
objections of the Los Padres chapter of the Sierra Club.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/10/hueneme-dredging-plan-gets-state-ok/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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