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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port of Hueneme dredging completed

By Scott Hadly
Ventura County Star (CA)
July 1, 2009


The port is a little deeper, the beach a little bigger, and local 
officials say they’re a lot happier after the completion of a one-year, 
$15 million dredging project at the Port of Hueneme.

With a large barge in the background, Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, 
praised the joint effort by the Navy, the Army Corps of Engineers and 
the port to dig out more than 50 years’ worth of accumulated silt to 
make the deep-water port more accessible and usable.

Capps called the project just the kind of work that can stimulate the 
local economy by improving the prospect for more commerce to come 
through the port while also having a positive environmental impact.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jul/01/port-of-hueneme-dredging-completed/

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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
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