Don’t Let the Corps “Spoil” Our River and Bay
We’ve spent six years and $4.7 million restoring sloughs the Corps’ own dredging damaged — and it’s working: fresh water is flowing back into the floodplain and bay for the first time in years. Now the Corps wants to dredge again, proposing to pull 27.8 million cubic yards of sand from the river over 30 years and dump it on the floodplain, burying up to 926 acres of wetlands and blocking water flow all over again.
- What’s at risk: the restoration we’ve already completed, plus $25 million in future NFWF funding that depends on what the Corps does next
- We’ve seen this before: the Corps’ last dredging program left Sand Mountain, a three-story spoil pile it never cleaned up — while admitting the project returned just 40 cents for every federal dollar spent
- The window is now: the Corps is gathering input before its formal review — sign before Sept 28 to tell them to terminate the dredging study
[Sign Before Sept 28 →]
The historic $4.7 million Apalachicola River slough restoration project has been completed!
Learn more on the Slough Restoration Webpage.
Apalachicola Riverkeeper has won a hard-fought legal fight to stop an exploratory oil drilling permit in the floodplain of the Apalachicola River. The Florida DEP has denied a drilling permit to Clearwater Land and Minerals.
Apalachicola Riverkeeper has worked for more than a quarter of a century holding polluters and policymakers accountable, educating about this place and its importance as a natural community of exceptional diversity, rarity and value, and exposing environmental injustices for the people who depend on the environment in many ways. We also are constantly taking the measure of the gap between science and policy, debunking misinformation, and scrutinizing solutions. Through our work we are strengthening local environmental awareness and advocacy, reaching underserved audiences, and training the next generation of caretakers for our river and bay.
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