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Rubatex Msds It came down to economics, not the environment. For all the fears that massive dredge spoils dumps would rise in South Jersey, that toxins in sediments would poison fish and crabs, and that water supplies would become tainted, it was the dollars that didn't add up. Not even close.

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Rubatex Neoprene If one cubic yard of mud is ever sucked up in the name of deepening the Delaware River, it will be because the Army Corps of Engineers somehow managed to overcome its shattered credibility.

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Rubatex Pipe "Shocking" was the word many observers used in reacting to a General Accounting Office review of Army Corps' economic justifications for digging a deeper channel through 106 miles of the river and bay. The investigative arm of Congress released the review Monday.

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Rubatex Pipe Insulation Even the most ardent opponents of the deepening plan did not expect the seemingly endless list of "miscalculations" and flawed economic principles the GAO cited.

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Rubatex 180 "It is hard to believe there could be a more scathing indictment of a project plan," said David Conrad of the National Wildlife Federation.

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Rubatex 180 Fs In sum, those errors led Army Corps' economists to calculate a $40 million annual national economic benefit from deepening the river, most of which supposedly would help petroleum refineries. At best, the GAO said, the project might provide $13 million.

Rubatex 1800 The upshot: Taxpayers ultimately would have subsidized a project that in all likelihood would go on losing money year after year.

Rubatex 320 The Army Corps, mind you, had 10 years to come up with its numbers. The GAO, 13 months.

Rubatex 373 The Corps' argument is well-known by now. Tankers would be able to come upriver laden with more oil, meaning refiners would save money incurred by unloading some of this cargo onto barges at the mouth of the bay. The nation benefits, the Corps reasoned, because, theoretically at least, refiners would pass these savings onto the motoring public.

Rubatex Rubber Even if one accepts this premise, it's hard to ignore the Arthur Andersen-style of mathematics used to show the project would be a winner.

Rubatex Tape "Overestimating benefits by over 200 percent, that's ridiculous," said Jeff Stein of the Taxpayers for Common Sense in Washington.

Rubatex Closing The GAO report is only 36 pages long but succinctly and clearly outlines many questionable practices used by Corps' economists.

Rubatex Closed Cell Gasketing Perhaps the most glaring is the "double counting" of savings to refiners in time transferring oil to barges. Somehow, the Corps figured refiners would save time and money twice - not only when the oil is unloaded at the bay, but also when it's unloaded at the tankers' points of origin.

Felpro Gaskets "However, the benefits of reduced lightering are realized only at the destination of the voyage," the GAO said.

Poly Products Supplies Makes sense. Even the Army Corps ultimately did not dispute this or other substantive GAO findings. Still, it has hired a consultant to redo its analysis.

Poly Hunting Feeders What the Army Corps did to justify dredging the Delaware is about as egregious as what happened several years ago along the Mississippi River, Stein argued.

Shoreline 13171 17 Neoprene That case led to cries for Army Corps' reform. An Army Corps' economist blew the whistle and said top brass forced him to manipulate numbers to make it look like a billion- dollar lock-and-canal expansion would benefit the nation. The Army inspector general later determined the project was pushed to please powerful agribusiness interests.

Neoprene Pads The nagging question is, why was the Army Corps so determined to deepen the Delaware? It has argued it was merely responding to congressional legislation that authorized the project a decade ago.

Neoprene Seat Covers But refiners never strongly embraced the idea. In reality, it was just a screen for the Delaware River Port Authority, which made no secret it wanted a deeper port to draw larger cargo ships to Philadelphia and Camden and protect port jobs - arguments no one has ever empirically substantiated.

Rubber Manufacturer But, unless some economist at the Corps steps forward, we may never know what pressures might have been brought to bring about such a flawed analysis.

Industrial Insulated Foam Congressional leaders, including Rep. Rob Andrews, the Camden County Democrat who almost single-handedly took on the Army Corps and DRPA, seem satisfied that the GAO study has left the project dead in the water.

Wholesale Rubber "I did not get involved in this project because I wanted to criticize the Army Corps," Andrews said. "I got involved because I wanted to protect my constituents, and I think the GAO report does that."

By Lawrence Hajna
Courier-Post - 6/12/2002

Topic: Delaware Deepening