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[quote user="Datafever"]Futuremodal, are you implying that commerce/industry should not be held accountable for environmental damages? [/quote]No, I'm saying *environmental damage* from such things as dredging or lock maintenance is non-existent.  An EIS is required for virtually every project that might dip into a waterway.  One of the local barge ports up here had to abandon plans for a new small riverside dock due to costs associated with the EIS requirements.  The way the law is written, river users must prove beyond a reasonable doubt (at their expense) that water-borne development activities won't harm the environment, rather than forcing the eco-nuts to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it will (and at the eco-nuts expense).  Ergo, a lot of unrealistic draconian fantasies are brought to the table as *possibillities* that must be discounted on each point.It is somewhat ironic, since private fishing boats will spill noticable amounts of  fuel into a river from single stroke engines, yet the possibility that USACE maintenance dredging might stir up a little mud is cause for a full scale panic.
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