[CPEO-MEF] DREDGING: Great Lakes Naval Harbor (IL)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

County may still be dump site
Sites explored for sand dredged from Great Lakes Harbor mouth

BY JILL TATGE-ROZELL
Kenosha News (WI)
June 4, 2010

Several areas in Kenosha County and southeastern Wisconsin are being 
explored as possible locations for the deposit of material to be dredged 
from the Great Lakes Harbor by the naval station in Illinois.

Terese Van Donsel, an environmental engineer with the Navy, said the 
verbal withdrawl of a potential site by a Brighton landowner has 
prompted the search for alternative sites for the material.

"It has value as fill," Van Donsel said, adding that tests for 
contamination show levels far below what is deemed appropriate for 
reuse. "There is a potential for other end uses in the area."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/county_may_still_be_dump_site_8085250.html

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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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