The dredging of the Menemsha channel isn’t the first Army Corps project to suffer from delays since the federal government approved more than $50 billion in recovery aid after Hurricane Sandy.
The dredging of the Menemsha channel isn’t the first Army Corps project to suffer from delays since the federal government approved more than $50 billion in recovery aid after Hurricane Sandy.
A major project to dredge Menemsha channel has hit a snag, missing a Jan. 31 deadline for completion and raising ire among Aquinnah officials over damage at the West Basin. The project cannot begin again until fall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
