harbor dredging: issues and historical funding (june 14, 2019) (2019 dredging crs report

“We have homeland security vessels that come in, and out of this harbor. “We also have a significant commercial fleet,” he said. “We are grateful that we will soon have a safe navigable harbor that boats can get in and out without getting stuck,” he added.īlake said many recreational boaters use the harbor during the boating season, but they are not the only ones who take advantage of the harbor’s location.

“Over the last many years, we have had silt and debris make this harbor not safely navigable,” he said.īlake said for these types of infrastructure projects, there will be some local cost-share, but he said he was pleased the federal government, through the infrastructure bill, is coming to help maintain the federal channel and the federal anchorage alongside both sides of the harbor.

Blake said the Army Corps of Engineer brought the Currituck, a special-purpose type of hopper dredger, to work on the mouth of the harbor, and the city has done the dredging at the head of the harbor within the last 10 years, but the federal channel hasn’t been dredged 1988.

Harbor dredging: issues and historical funding (june 14, 2019) (2019 dredging crs report