Complaint: Georgia company hid Chinese parts on Ft. Benning construction job article
Photo taken by former Booth Plumbing worker shows Chinese-made check valves. The word China has been ground off the valve on the left. (Photo by South Central Pipe Trades Association)
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COLUMBUS, Ga. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah is investigating allegations a Georgia plumbing company improperly used Chinese-made parts on a military construction project and then tried to hide the evidence.
The FOX 5 I-Team obtained photos and videos recorded by a former employee who filed an official complaint. I seen foreign materials the first day I got there, said Kam Wright, 21, of Montgomery, Alabama.
Judge asked to halt dredges for sea turtle nesting season By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press
Published: May 6, 2021, 6:04am
Share: Bette Zirkelbach, front left, and Richie Moretti, front right, manager and founder respectively of the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital, release Sparb, a sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle, April 22 at Sombrero Beach in Marathon, Fla. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau)
SAVANNAH, Ga. A conservation group filed suit asking a judge to stop a federal agency from dredging a Georgia harbor during the nesting season for rare sea turtles that began over the weekend.
The group One Hundred Miles filed suit last week in U.S. District Court against the Army Corps of Engineers, which plans to end a policy that for 30 years suspended coastal dredging from the Carolinas to Florida during the warmer months when sea turtles are most abundant in coastal waters and lay their eggs on Southern beaches.
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A conservation group filed suit asking a judge to stop a federal agency from dredging a Georgia harbor during the nesting season for rare sea turtles that began over the weekend.
The group One Hundred Miles filed suit Friday in U.S. District Court against the Army Corps of Engineers, which plans to end a policy that for 30 years suspended coastal dredging from the Carolinas to Florida during the warmer months when sea turtles are most abundant in coastal waters and lay their eggs on Southern beaches.
Those seasonal windows have been credited with minimizing deaths and injuries to sea turtles by dredges that suck up sediments to clear waterways used by commercial ships. But the Army Corps plans to scrap them after federal scientists last year concluded that sea turtles protected by the Endangered Species Act can likely endure 150 deaths annually from year-round dredging.