Fuller Street Beach, Eel Pond Reap Benefits from Dredging
Alex Elvin

With dredging season in Edgartown coming to an end, Fuller Street Beach has gotten a makeover, and boaters can look forward to safer passage in Eel Pond.

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Sand Flies Up-Island as Menemsha Dredging Project Begins
Alex Elvin

A major project to dredge Menemsha Channel is underway, with a barge stationed on Menemsha Pond and more than a mile of piping laid along the shore between the pond and Lobsterville Beach.

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Dredging at Little Bridge Begins This Week
Olivia Hull

A long-awaited project to dig out the Sengekontacket channel will begin early Monday. Enormous deposits of sand have collected on both sides of the bridge, blocking the exchange of water between the salt pond and the ocean.

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Dredging Under Little Bridge Set to Begin Soon
Olivia Hull

A long-awaited project to dredge a channel that feeds Sengekontacket Pond is set to go this spring, now that Oak Bluffs has awarded a bid for project. Sediment has been piling up at the channel since Hurricane Sandy.

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Jetty Rebuilding at Menemsha Set to Begin
Alex Elvin

A project to rebuild the two jetties at Menemsha harbor is expected to begin in the next two weeks, while a more controversial project to dredge the channel to Menemsha Pond has been delayed until next fall.

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Funding Approved for Oak Bluffs Dredging
Sara Brown

The town of Oak Bluffs learned Friday that the federal government has approved funding to dredge under the Little Bridge at Sengekontacket Pond. The news capped a week during which selectmen began discussing alternatives if funding did not come through.

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Funding Delay Complicates Oak Bluffs Dredging
Olivia Hull

Discouraged by a stalled quest for federal funding, the town of Oak Bluffs is now looking for other ways to dredge the sand-filled channel beneath the Little Bridge at Sengekontacket Pond. The inlet has now closed and the window to dredge it is also closing, with April the deadline for work to be done.

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Health of Menemsha Pond at Stake
Warren Doty

The following letter was sent to the Army Corps of Engineers; the author is chairman of the Chilmark selectmen.

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Chilmark Steadfast in Objection to Army Corps Dredging
Remy Tumin

Reacting to an April 7 letter from the federal agency, selectmen sounded off about the decision to dredge Menemsha channel despite the town’s objections. “I’m not surprised but I am ticked off,” said selectman Jonathan Mayhew.

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Channel Crossing

A spirit of cooperation traditionally prevails in the neighboring towns of Aquinnah and Chilmark, but there has been disagreement lately over an Army Corps of Engineers project to dredge the Menemsha basin and channel.

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