The State - News from July 18, 1988

A state appeals court has refused to allow the Port of Oakland to resume dumping sludge from a harbor-dredging project into fishing waters off Half Moon Bay without first gaining approval from the state Coastal Commission. The decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco is another setback in the port’s plans to deepen Oakland’s inner harbor to accommodate a fleet of super container ships. But it is a victory for San Mateo County and fishing and environmental groups, who claim in a suit that the plan to dump 500,000 cubic yards of mud from the Oakland harbor into the ocean near Half Moon Bay, and eventually deposit 6.5 million more cubic yards at an undetermined site, would destroy local fishing and spawning grounds.