

In rejecting the Riverkeeper’s motion for an injunction, U.S. The Riverkeeper has also amended its April 2017 complaint to argue that the Corps should be made to do an additional risk analysis after the storm-surge flooding along the river during Hurricane Irma. Army Corps of Engineers to redo its 2014 impact report because JaxPort last year changed the number of miles of dredging from 13 to 11, which would require relocating some of the port facilities at the Dames Point Terminal. The organization still has a pending federal lawsuit to stop the project. Johns Riverkeeper was denied an emergency injunction to stop the project until modifications to the dredging project were studied. Army Corps of Engineers today began the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening project to take the federal shipping channel to a depth of 47 feet," JaxPort spokeswoman Nancy Rubin wrote in a news release. "After a decade of study, independent review, public input and full regulatory approval, contractors for the U.S. Johns River shipping channel to allow massive cargo ships to reach Jacksonville's port began Saturday, the Jacksonville Port Authority announced Saturday. JACKSONVILLE, Fla – The first phase of a controversial $484 million project to deepen the St.
