Newport Beach Council to Consider Disposal of ‘Legacy Materials’ in Harbor
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. Newport Beach’s harbor commission has passed a resolution headed to city council recommending a small amount of dredging waste be buried in the harbor in a contained facility.
The waste, which is unsuitable for dumping in the ocean, is currently being excavated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The proposed confined aquatic dredged material disposal site (CAD) would be located in the central portion of the Lower Harbor adjacent to Bay Island, Lido Island and Harbor Island.
The city staff report adopted by the harbor commission recommends that the city dredge approximately 300,000 cubic yards of material 47 feet below the existing harbor floor to construct the CAD facility, which will be able to accommodate about 106,900 cubic yards of the unsuitable material from the federal channels dredging project.
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According to numbers issued Tuesday afternoon by the Orange County Health Care Agency, the daily case count per 100,000 students has dropped to 2.4, but that’s not enough to move into the yellow tier, so we are still in the slightly more restrictive orange tier.
Counties that reach the yellow tier have brighter economic prospects, as more businesses and venues among them gyms, movie theaters, stadiums, museums and amusement parks are allowed to operate at a higher capacity than previously.