Call to Action - San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper
The problem? The dredging plan includes digging through a Superfund area contaminated with mercury and closed to fishing for DECADES because of the risk to human health.
Toxicologists have warned that dredging the area, contaminated by a former Alcoa aluminum smelting plant, could disturb a significant amount of buried, mercury-laced underwater sediment, endangering the health of ALL of Matagorda Bay and Lavaca Bay, and threatening the survival of the already-struggling local fishing community.
June 23, 2023
Call to Action - San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper