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GAO Study Stomps Delaware Dredging Project.(General Accounting Office criticizes the Army Corps of Engineers)(Brief Article)

National Wildlife

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A recently released report from the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, should be another nail in the coffin of the misguided U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Delaware River dredging project that NWF and its affiliate, the Delaware Nature Society, have battled for years.

According to the GAO report, the Corps' economic justification of the project is fraught with "miscalculations, invalid assumptions, and the use of ...

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