Judge OKs case against dredging near Key Bridge

A Baltimore County Circuit Court judge refused to dismiss a claim filed by county activists asking the court to halt dredging off the Sparrows Point shipyard near the Key Bridge.

Judge Susan Souder?s decision Friday to move forward a Dundalk community association?s complaints that the Sparrows Point operators are disturbing contaminated material on the harbor floor comes too late to stop the first round of dredging but could help halt a much larger second phase, activists said.