Georgia coastal protection activists are celebrating good news for the rare sea turtle population that has been threatened by a channel dredging process that acts like a vacuum cleaner along the sea floor.
In response to the conservation group One Hundred Miles’ lawsuit, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed this month to study the threat of hopper dredging on loggerhead turtle fisheries and other wildlife in the Brunswick Harbor. The announcement that the agency will not proceed with year-round dredging while it studies its potential harm coincides with the discovery of the first sea turtle eggs of the 2023 laying season at Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge.
One Hundred Miles is voluntarily dismissing the complaint filed with the U.S. District Court of Southern Georgia alleging that the Army Corps failed to perform a sufficient environmental review into the amount of harm that year-round dredging might cause turtles, fisheries and other wildlife.
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