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Strategic navigational and environmental dredging at Howards Bay in Superior (Wisconsin) is complete, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District.

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began to dredge contaminated sediment out of Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin.

If you've noticed some activity under the east-side of the Blatnik Bridge this week, it's for a reason.  The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started a planned dredging project at Howards Bay that's expected to last the summer and into early fall. According to details released by the EPA, the work is tied to the St. Louis River Area of Concern - which was created as part of the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.  This specific project will see crews dredging contaminated sediment at Howards Bay.  "Sediment in Howards Bay is polluted with contaminants typically as...

Dredging continues in St. Louis River AOC May 10, 2021, by Eldin Ganic U.S. EPA will this week begin dredging contaminated sediment in the St. Louis River Area of Concern at Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin. St. Louis River AOC is one of the 43 AOCs identified by the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s as the most environmentally degraded areas in the Great Lakes ecosystem. Sediment in Howards Bay is polluted with contaminants typically associated with fossil fuels such as coal, gasoline and oil. The cleanup extends from Hughitt Slip to th...

After years of measuring mercury in the estuary muck, in the fish and in the rain falling from the sky, scientists now say they know the culprit: Huge amounts of decades-old “legacy” mercury pollution stored in the sediment is still getting into the fish. In a study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, published online March 13, scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Duluth laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey and several other institutions used isotope “fingerprinting’’ to trace mercury in the fish all the way back to its source, differentia...