![]() The Environmental Impact Study (EIS) was fast-tracked by President Obama’s “We Can’t Wait Initiative,” reducing the timeframe by 14 months and limiting the ability of the Corps to thoroughly evaluate this complex issue.The project requires the removal of 18 million cubic yards of dredged material, the equivalent of over 1.6 million dump truck loads, that will be placed in a newly created Offshore Dredged Material Disposal Site (ODMDS), located in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of the mouth of the river. ![]() Caroline National Memorial would be widened. Two areas of the channel close to Chicopit Bay and Ft.Johns River to just west of the Dames Point Bridge near Blount Island. Thirteen miles of the river would be deepened, from the mouth of the St.The project has not been been thoroughly evaluated and publicly vetted.The Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) analysis is incomplete, failing to fully assess tributary impacts or conduct a multi-port analysis or flood analysis, and.The proposed mitigation is woefully inadequate, doing nothing to offset the damage to the river,.The projected economic benefits have been dramatically overstated,. ![]()
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