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May 23, 2018

Groups say Corps too lax about shoreline ‘armoring'

  • A new lawsuit argues that the agency allows potentially harmful projects in tidal areas to escape federal review.

    • SEATTLE (AP) — Three conservation groups have sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying it fails to protect marine habitat because it doesn't adequately regulate seawalls and other structures built along many stretches of Puget Sound shoreline.

    Sound Action, Friends of the San Juans and the Washington Environmental Council argue in a lawsuit filed Monday that the federal agency should be evaluating many more so-called shoreline armoring projects than it currently does.


     
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