diff --git a/tower-ready-cache/Cargo.toml b/tower-ready-cache/Cargo.toml
index 21959d8..b110ef2 100644
--- a/tower-ready-cache/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tower-ready-cache/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ indexmap = "1.0.2"
 log = "0.4.1"
 tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["sync"] } 
 tower-service = { version = "0.3", path = "../tower-service" } 
-tower-util = "0.1.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tower-test = { version = "0.3", path = "../tower-test" }
diff --git a/tower-util/Cargo.toml b/tower-util/Cargo.toml
index 164e522..8490c81 100644
--- a/tower-util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tower-util/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
 tower-service = { version = "0.3", path = "../tower-service" }
-tower-layer = { version = "0.3", path = "../tower-layer" }
 pin-project = "0.4"
 futures-util = "0.3"
 futures-core = "0.3"