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Greenport Proposal
St. Lawrence Cement has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (a Federal agency) for permission to:
"discharge fill material, dredge with ten years maintenance and upland disposal, and install structures in the Hudson River to improve an existing marine terminal servicing [its] cement manufacturing facilities."
The company seeks these permits in order to build a vast dock facility in Hudson, which would require dredging of 62,000 cubic yards of sediment from the River. This waterfront operation is critical to SLC's hopes of building a massive mining and cement-making operation in Greenport. Coal, slag, and other materials would be offloaded from barges and ships, and stored at times in open piles&emdash;right next to Hudson's only public waterfront park.
Waterfront structures would also include an 82-foot-tall pump house, a 75-foot-tall conveyor-reversing structure, and a dock conveyor. Materials would come in and out via 754 foot by 80-foot HudsonMax vessels, with 32-foot drafts and 36,000-ton cargos, as well as other 521-foot- and 400-foot-long ships.
This waterfront operation would be connected to the 40-story plant on Becraft Mountain by 2.1 miles of conveyor belts.
Though the immediate subject of the Corps' review are the waterfront operations, the public can comment on all aspects of the project, especially due to the Corps' requirement to look at "cumulative impacts" from the action.
In late 1998, SLC began the process of applying for 17 different permits and approvals from a host of local, County, State and Federal agencies. As of March 2003, the company still has none of those necessary permits and approvals to move forward.
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