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Thursday, August 11, 2005Past Issues - S | M | T | W | T | F | S
 
South Jersey


Our Opinions:
1. Predicate dredging on four key
    considerations
2. Two port agencies essential to
    Delaware River dredging
3. Completing existing projects would
    be best for waterfront
4. Chance near to create board to
    oversee river development
5. Time to play hardball about
    getting rid of dredge muck
6. Dredge-muck boondoggle
    keeps raising questions
7. All news points to dredging
    project as waste of money
8. Dredging fiasco: Hit Army Corps,
    DRPA in pocketbook
9. Here's more evidence that
    dredging plan is 'half-baked'
See Also:
   Interactive Map
   River links
   River history
Overview-- A river of opportunities
Once a cesspool of sewage and factory waste, the Delaware River has made one of the nation's most remarkable ecological comebacks.

This series began in August, 1999 and has been updated as stories and opinions appeared in the Courier-Post.

Follow up stories
EDITORIAL: Look to Hudson project for dredging precautions
Dredging saga may deepen
W. Deptford gets dredging spoils, $1.1 million grant from authority
Refinery expresses concern about Delaware dredging plan
Port workers rally for river dredging
Maritime Day will promote Delaware River dredging

River History
The Courier-Post's past decade of Delaware River coverage.

Part 1 - Environment
A river renewed
An early focus of pollution cleanup
The mystery of shad's dwindling numbers
Fighting on new pollution front
Major Pollutants in the Delaware River
Watershed strategy targets the river's tributaries

Part 2 - Redevelopment
RiverWinds of change in West Deptford
Marrying business and pleasure on Pennsauken's waterfront
Next year is a pivotal one for Camden Waterfront projects
Clearing the hurdles of contaminated sites
Brownfield Act gets test in Camden

Part 3 - Dredging and Commerce
The Army Corps faces backlash with controversial dredging project
Both sides have opinions on dredging
The evolution of dredging
Questioning the high cost of dredging
Funding sources for the dredging project
Preventing 'an abysmal use of land'
Deeper channel means more oil on fewer ships
Why oil endures as a force on the Delaware
Remarks about sediment draw criticism
Gloucester County taking fight over dredge-spoils sites to D.C.
Lawmakers: Dredge spoils must be shared
Dredging critics plan rally, release of report
Environmentalists charge Corps is wasting billions
Opponents rally for review of Delaware dredging
DRPA tells opponents Delaware dredging needed to protect jobs
Pennsylvania cautious on accepting spoils
Questions haunt economics of $311 million dredging project
3 of 4 refineries express concerns about project
Dredge spoils would hurt riverfront economies, studies say
Andrews urges caution on dredging
Lawmakers seek probe of dredging
Dredging proposal hits snag
Andrews seeks to stop Delaware dredging
Lawmakers renew call for audit of dredge plan

Part 4 - Recreation and Future
Steeltown's renaissance
Making the river friendly to recreational boaters
Access to the river: by bike and on foot
Maritime's 'river gods'



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