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Wayne Gilchrest: “the other problem with this, it is a much broader issue than the Sandy Canal or a safety concern for the Tolchester…”

On the recordJune 27, 2000
the other problem with this, it is a much broader issue than the Sandy Canal or a safety concern for the Tolchester area. The whole northern route that would be dredged by my colleagues would involve 18 million cubic yards of dredge material being dumped overboard in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I guess we could get into a dispute whether or not that is actually in my district or in the district of the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings) or anybody else's district. It does not matter. That 18 million cubic yards is 2 million pounds of ammonia, 700,000 pounds of phosphorus. It is the equivalent of putting a sewage treatment plant the size of the city of Annapolis right there in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, and I do not think that is what we want to do.
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Wayne Gilchrest
Maryland
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing environmental concerns related to dredging in the Chesapeake Bay.

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