Site recommended for dredge dumping

Opponents to a proposed liquefied natural gas plant are worried the state might cave to pressure to build a facility to house toxic dredge material at the same site they are trying to protect from environmental damage.

The Sparrows Point shipyard ? where Virginia-based AES Corp. is proposing the $400 million facility ? has been recommended as a future site to house sediment dredged from Baltimore?s contaminated harbor, said Francis Taylor, chair of the citizens? advisory committee for the state?s Dredged Material Management Program. With space rapidly filling at other state-approved containment sites, he said the material has to go somewhere.