11/5/2023 0 Comments 1. many ports have had to dredge channels to allow ships with drafts of up to 40 feet.![]() ![]() ![]() Thirteen years have passed since the Corps issued its environmental study of the “Matagorda Ship Channel Improvement Project,” which is designed to allow the world’s largest oil tankers to access the sleepy refinery towns along the inner coast of Matagorda Bay and its inlet, Lavaca Bay. “It was the most amazing surprise,” said Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper and oysterwoman who had fought against the project.Īfter years of little response to their campaign against the plans, Wilson said she and other community leaders were shocked at the abrupt reversal. Lavaca Bay was designated as a Superfund hazardous waste site in the 1990s after a now-idled Alcoa aluminum and chlor-alkali plant released an estimated 1.2 million pounds of mercury into its waters from 1966 to 1979.įollowing the challenge by Earthjustice, a review by the Corps of Engineers found “discrepancies” in the dredging volumes calculated across its various studies, prompting a revocation of approval for a project that’s been in the works for a decade.
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