FILE: In this file photo taken Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 the CMA CGM Figaro cruises high in the water because of a smaller load size due to the depth of the Savannah River in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/ Savannah Morning News, Richard Burkhart, file)
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel wrote in an order released late last week that the time is right to hear the case against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the project. The deepening of the 38-mile channel is expected to begin in the spring.
The environmental groups say the long-awaited project will dredge up toxic cadmium in river silt that will be dumped on the South Carolina side of the river that divides the state from Georgia.
The corps had asked Gergel to dismiss the suit, saying the plaintiffs have not been harmed and the case is premature.
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