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Re: Raritan Bay Pipeline
Agreed...Charlie
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The project, however, will stir up over 1 million tons of contaminated harmful muck through dredging that include PCBs, dioxin, lead, mercury and arsenic in Raritan Bay. The project will also release thousands of gallons of drilling fluid in the Raritan Bay. |
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Re: Raritan Bay Pipeline
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https://www.ferc.gov/industries/gas/...EIS/part-1.pdf
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Transco proposes to dispose of acceptable material at the USACE-managed Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS), a 15.7 square nautical mile area in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 7.7 nautical miles south of Rockaway, New York. The HARS previously received contaminated sediments and other materials during 63 years of disposal activity, and the USACE is now capping the area with dredged material that meets certain USACE and EPA chemical criteria and which would not cause significant undesirable effects, including through bioaccumulation. In September 2017, Transco submitted an application to the USACE for a permit under section 103 of the MPRSA to transport and dispose of dredge material at the HARS and continues to consult with the USACE regarding potential use of the HARS. For dredge material determined unsuitable for disposal at the HARS, Transco has secured preliminary agreement to dispose of the material at licensed onshore facilities in Kearney and Jersey City, New Jersey. Transco may side-cast dredge material derived from portions of anchorage area 28 and between MPs 35.2 and 35.5 and re-use this material as backfill if approved by the NYSDEC; otherwise, these dredge materials would also be disposed of at approved onshore or offshore sites. So it sounds to me that contaminated material will be disposed of both in the water and on the land. In my opinion it is better not to dredge up this material. |
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I bet people will be pissed about it when there aren't any fish in the area during construction. |
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A project like this has to have environmental impact.you can’t drive your car without some environmental impact. It’s always a cost benefit analysis. Is it better to burn gas than oil or coal? How about the people for whom energy consumes such a big part of their income? Gas promises to be much cheaper. This is not a conclusion but an attempt to look at both sides.
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they don't want to dredge up the length of the pipeline, they want to put a bunch of it in with directional drilling, way under the bottom without stirring it up. as with any project, there will be a few places where things will be disturbed during the construction but it's not cutting a channel across the whole bay through all the sediments. pipelines are way safer than trains or ship transport. i like the idea of a pipeline much better than an alternative of say, CNG ships regularly transiting the bay. everybody likes cheap fuel and energy independence. everybody also always has knee jerk reactions against infrastructure projects.
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Executive summary--Major conclusions--ES14
The proposed route and construction methods for the Raritan Bay Loop were developed in consultation with the USACE and other agencies to minimize crossing designated anchorage areas, meet USACE marine traffic safety requirements, and reduce impacts on water quality and aquatic wildlife. Sixty-four percent of the offshore loop would be installed using a jet trencher, which would not require the removal and disposal of seafloor sediment. Thirty-one percent of the offshore loop would be installed using a clamshell excavator fitted with an environmental bucket, and an environmental clamshell would also be used to excavate horizontal directional drill (HDD) entry and exit pits. The remainder of the offshore loop would be installed via HDD, thereby avoiding direct seafloor impacts. Project-related turbidity would be temporary, and most sedimentation would occur near to the approximately 87.8-acre area of seafloor that would be directly affected by construction. In addition, Transco consulted with the NMFS, NJDEP, and NYSDEC to minimize construction conflicts with time of year restrictions for certain marine species to the extent practicable. As a result, impacts on aquatic resources would be temporary and minor to moderate. And the final part of the major conclusion is. As a result, impacts on aquatic resources would be temporary and minor to moderate.
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If you are against natural gas pipelines then be sure to turn off the natural gas going into your home, every bit helps.
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