Posted on January 5, 2016
By Neil Vigdor, ctpost
The state known for the “Preserve the Sound” license plate is having a crisis of conscience over a dredging boom planned by the federal government in Connecticut waters.
From cargo shipping lanes in Bridgeport to the silted-in narrows of the Byram River in Greenwich, lawmakers say the push by the Army Corps of Engineers could spur economic activity and help create jobs.
But weighing heavily on the minds of Democrats and Republicans is the unknown environmental toll of dumping millions of cubic yards of soil — some of it containing toxic remnants from the state’s industrial past — in the middle of Long Island Sound.
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