Wayne Gilchrest: “Mr. Chairman, I will make a comment about the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey supporting this project.…”

“Mr. Chairman, I will make a comment about the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey supporting this project. There are numerous agencies within each of those States, and the State of Delaware has a problem with this dredging from the governor to the two senators, to the Member of Congress from that State. The issues that they have had are environmental issues, and those environmental issues deal with the toxins that are in these regions of the river that is going to be dredged. They have a problem with the dredged spoil that is supposed to be considered clean, which, in fact, when we move tiny particles of dredged material, each of those grains of sand, because of the physical nature of that structure, when it is moved, exposed to air, deposited someplace else, releases nitrogen and phosphorus. Those are concerns. Delaware does not want this project to go forward, because of the environmental concerns that the Corps of Engineers have been asked to address, and they have not addressed those issues.”