PortMiami Dredging Killed a Half|Million Corals

PortMiami Deep Dredge Project - Wikipedia

The PortMiami Deep Dredge Project was a project that expanded PortMiami by dredging the bay to allow new, larger cargo ships to enter the port.

Notice of Intent to Sue for Violations of the Endangered Species Act ...

The Corps recently finished a similar dredging project at the Port of Miami (“PortMiami”). ... with dredge related sediments as well as dead and ...

Miami's Choice: Bigger Ships or Coral Reefs? - National Geographic

The Port of Miami is dredging its shipping channel in the hope of luring the mammoth cargo ships that will sail through the widened Panama Canal.

Environment Miami port dredging damaging sea life, state ...

The $205 million dredge project to deepen Port Miami has spread a blanket of silt and clay over the bay bottom that is smothering coral and ...

Bahamas Coral Reef Report Card | agrra

In The Bahamas, several parrotfish species (Sparisoma spp.) are the main grazers of seaweeds on coral reefs since the die-off of longspined urchins. This index ...

Dredging finished at PortMiami; questions linger over possible ...

MIAMI - A $205 million dredging project has been completed at PortMiami, though questions linger over the environmental costs ... coral in the channel and reefs ...

Army Corps biologist pleads guilty to lying about working for ...

... half million corals were killed when plumes of sediment smothered them. ... corals were killed by the dredge work. The U.S. Army Corps of ...

Miami New Times: Deep Dredge Silt Is Killing Our Coral After All ...

For years, Deep Dredge proponents have promised that the $220 million project wouldn't kill off Biscayne Bay wildlife. Coral would be ...

Environmentalists Again Warn of Widespread Coral Damage in Port ...

... coral reef resources during the Port of Miami Deep Dredge Project." The ... The estimated cost of the port expansion is $374 million, paid via port ...

Port Miami expansion damages sea life, state claims - POLITICO Pro

The $205 million expansion is having a "profound effect" on coral, sea ... The dredging will remove 6 million cubic yards from the port's ...

Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review of emergence, impacts ...

However, there are contrasting views as additional research indicates that dredging in the Port of Miami caused significant impacts on the surrounding reefs due ...

Port Damages Miami Reef - Living on Earth

New data from NOAA suggests sediment from dredging could have killed many of the corals that provide the city with natural protection from storm surges.

Coral threatened by dredging in Miami, environmentalists say

... corals were either dead or dying, suffocated by sediment. The source of the sediment, environmentalists say, is a $205 million dredging ...

Dredging and Shipping Impacts on Southeast Florida Coral Reefs

Based on the adjusted impact areas, over 8.1million corals covering over 11.7 ha of live cover were impacted. Burial impacts were the greatest.

Corps Commits to Conduct New Environmental Studies Before Port ...

When the PortMiami dredging project began, sediment covered reefs out to more than 3,000 feet away, smothering coral. In Miami, the dredging ...

Miami dredging faces lengthy delay - FreightWaves

Miami-Dade County has already spent $2 million itself on design and engineering plans conducted by the Corps of Engineers. The Port of Miami ...

Port of Miami Acropora cervicornis Relocation Report

Tag #57. (right)] associated with a missing colony with a nearby dead coral as a result of burial by ... Environmental impacts of dredging and ...

Massive PortMiami Dredge Project 'Wiping Out' Vast Coral Field

While Illinois-based dredging contractor Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, which was hired to carry out the $205 million project, has relocated ...

Florida Dredging Would Cut Path Across Corals in 'Crisis'

As America's only barrier reefs bleach, dissolve and succumb to disease, experts worry that a $320 million plan to expand oil and cargo ...

Groups Argue Port Everglades Project Would Damage Reefs

"During the dredging of PortMiami, the Army Corps illegally injured and killed Endangered Species Act-listed staghorn corals and buried alive ...