The Environmental Law & Policy Center filed the lawsuit as attorneys for the groups in the U.S. The lawsuit alleges that the Corps does not have authority to build the new dumpsite, and greenlit the project without adequately considering the environmental impacts and other, less harmful alternatives, in violation of federal environmental and dredge-management laws. Now, the Corps is reneging on its public park commitment altogether, and is proposing to build an expanded new dredge waste dumpsite on top of the old CDF that will rise 25 feet in the air. The Corps has already delayed the creation of a new public park for over two decades. The law attached a condition: after the CDF is full, the reclaimed land would be handed over to Chicago Park District to be converted into a new public park at the mouth of the Calumet River. The site was submerged land within Lake Michigan until 1984, after the State of Illinois passed a law to allow the Corps to build an in-water Confined Disposal Facility (CDF). The dumpsite would be built on reclaimed land between Steelworkers Park and Calumet Park on Chicago’s southeast side, and used to dump contaminated material dredged out of the Calumet River for the next 20 years or more. That land has long been promised to the community to become a park for residents to use and enjoy. Army Corps of Engineers from building a “vertical” dredge waste dumpsite containing toxic materials on 45 acres of Lake Michigan shoreline. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to stop the U.S. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago TribuneĬhicago – The Alliance of the Southeast (ASE) and Friends of the Parks, represented by Environmental Law & Policy Center public interest attorneys, today filed a lawsuit in the U.S.
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