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Gov. Jeb Bush Bush, Cabinet Call For End to Dredging Project [Jeb saves FL taxpayers $20 million per year] By: Times Staff Writer The St. Petersburg Times June 13, 2002 For years, environmentalists have complained that Florida's mightiest river -- the Apalachicola -- is being ruined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps dredges the river to let a dwindling fleet of barges travel north to Georgia and Alabama. On Wednesday, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet joined the critics, passing a resolution that asks Congress to pull the plug on the controversial dredging project. "It's incredibly...