The Coastal Conservation League (CCL) and the South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) is pushing back on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dredging project in Georgetown Harbor.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) gave $6.5 million of federal money to dredge the harbor for the first time in over 15 years.

Staff attorney of SCELP, Monica Whalen, is representing the CCL in combatting the USACE's environmental assessment that found, "no contamination concerns,"

"They are concerned about the water quality impacts it can have when you are stirring up all these sediments that have been settled for approximately 15-20 years since there has not been a dredging project in a while, and there also hasn't been studies done fully by the army corps in a while,” Whalen said.