The legal wrangling over a filled-in wetland on St. Simons Island isn’t over yet, say plaintiffs in a Clean Water Act Citizen Suit against Sea Island Acquisition, LLC.

Glynn Environmental Coalition, the Center for a Sustainable Coast and Jane Fraser have fought since 2019 against what they say was a fraudulent application by Sea Island Acquisition for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fill in a half-acre wetland on St. Simons Island. They are now poised to ask the court to reconsider a recent dismissal of their complaint, driven by a concern that the case will set an unwelcome precedent.

The issue arose in 2013 when Sea Island Acquisition requested and received permission from the Corps to fill the wetland using an expedited process called a nationwide permit. On its appl

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