The idea was to create an artificial base for new oyster reefs.
But no one ever tested the steel slag - a rock-like byproduct of the steel-making process - for heavy metals or other contaminants.
Now some local environmentalists are asking how the project ever could have been approved with a lack of such critical information. And they're having a difficult time getting answers.
"As far as I can tell, I think somebody made an error...
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Testing warranted - 2010-01-30 11:54:50
Citizen oversight is important. A few years ago there were plans for dumping Baltimore Harbor dredging materials just north of the Bay Bridge. This is an excellent fishing point and protests scuttled the plan. DNR's Mr. Naylor seems to be satisfied, but the deposits should be analyzed and monitored. Dumping slag as an oyster base seems illogical, but I am not qualified to make a statement. Assurances need to be backed up with scientific investigation. We should support the restoration efforts.
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The Bay - 2010-01-30 08:14:52
Seems to me that once again the Corps has dropped the ball. Why is every year we read about another Army Corps of Engineeris project failing. Who is in charge of this group. Flood control projects cause more floods than if nature had been left alone. I wont even go into the debacle in New Orleans, or the damage done to the Mississippi River. As for Claire Oneills statement that there is "no way of telling if the slag put in the river contains any heavy metals"; how about pulling a sample out of the river and testing it like you should have done before you dropped all of this industrial refuse into the river. This is unacceptable.
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