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Lawmakers press Corps on disposal capacity for contaminated dredged material in Great Lakes and elsewhere
Summary
Committee members raised ongoing problems with finding long-term disposal capacity for contaminated dredged material, citing the Calumet River and Michigan City Harbor, and asked the Corps about alternative confined disposal facilities, remediation and beneficial reuse goals.
Members of the subcommittee pressed the Army Corps about where contaminated dredged material will be placed as several Great Lakes harbor projects await disposal solutions, and asked whether more innovative reuse or treatment pathways are possible.
Representative Bob Mervin and others raised Michigan City Harbor and the Calumet River disposal site as unresolved examples where a lack of capacity is delaying dredging and navigation work. "Right now, we have nowhere to put that material," the Corps acknowledged, and lawmakers urged…
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