Cornucopia Harbor Dredging Study

摘要

During the 1970's the State of Wisconsin expressed serious concerns about contamination of dredge materials and the deposition of pollutants in the Great Lakes. The State recognized that small amounts of pollutant material could have harmful effects on the human health. Numerous proposals have been made by the federal government to charge a sizeable portion of the cost of harbor maintenance dredging to state and local governments. It is this perceived change in federal policy that now causes concern at the state and local level with the need to find methods of dredge disposal that are both cost-effective and environmentally compatible.