A federal judge in Delaware will determine whether a federal agency’s plan to deepen and widen the Delaware River must be regulated by the state of Delaware in order to mitigate what the state says are potentially harmful environmental effects.

Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control argued before Judge Susan Robinson in federal court in Wilmington Dec. 8 that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been uncooperative in obtaining the state permits it needs to begin work on a plan to deepen and widen a 102.5-mile stretch of river that runs through Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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