Posted on February 11, 2016
By Linda Loyd, Philly.com
The project to deepen the Delaware River navigation channel will receive $22 million in the Army Corps of Engineers’ current fiscal year work plan and $33 million in President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017, which begins Oct. 1, according to Sen. Robert P. Casey (D., Pa.).
About 80 percent of the channel is now at or deeper than 45 feet, and the dredging work that began in March 2010 should be completed next year, said Ed Voigt, public affairs chief for the Army Corps’ Philadelphia District.
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