A controversial dredge at Port Everglades is on pause after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers withdrew a state permit, saying it wanted to re-evaluate parts of the project.
In a letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Angela Dunn, the Corps planning chief in Jacksonville, asked to withdraw the permit. “Elements of the project description, including order of construction, are being reconsidered by the Corps,” Dunn wrote earlier this month, which could change the scope of the dredge.
The permit covers the Corps’ work for the port that impacts wetlands, state-owned land and environmental resources regulated by the state…