Legislation to reel in the amount of dredged sediment the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may release into the Mobile Bay was signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday.
House Bill 181, sponsored by Rep. Rhett Marques, R-Enterprise, will require that 70 percent of sediment and material dredged from the Corps’ Mobile Ship Channel expansion project be put toward “beneficial use” and is not deposited in the Mobile Bay.
Beneficially used dredged material may include using the material for marsh creation, shoreline restoration on Dauphin and Sand islands…