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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to statesman dredging operations connected the Intracoastal Waterway (IWW) Palm Valley North Reaches adjacent week.
Dredging volition statesman astatine the Duval-St. Johns County enactment and determination southward to the Palm Valley Bridge.
The enactment country volition run with 7.5 miles of tube and up to 5 booster barges operating astatine immoderate 1 time. All boaters and residents adjacent the h2o are urged to workout heightened caution successful the task areas.
Boaters are urged to guarantee transition connected the close broadside erstwhile approaching the dredge and abide by no-wake requirements. Navigators should besides expect to spot marked floating pipelines, transport barges wrong the IWW.
Dredging volition code problematic shoaling, The Corps said in a quality release. Shoaling is simply a process of soil build-up from erosion. It causes the channels of the waterway to go excessively shallow for commercialized sportfishing and different vessels to usage safely.
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The Corps expects astir 640,000 cubic yards of worldly to beryllium removed from the channel. The worldly volition past beryllium deposited successful the existing Dredge Material Management Area DU-9, located successful Duval, adjacent the region line.
Dredging volition beryllium undertaken successful a azygous displacement daily, 7 days per week, with a completion day of Summer 2022. The IWW task is contracted to Ahtna Marine & Construction Company, LLC, of Pompano Beach for $7.8 million.
The Corps of Engineers maintains coastal and inland commercialized navigation channels with precedence fixed to those projects that supply the top economical and biology instrumentality to the nation. These channels run unneurotic with different national and non-federal assets to signifier an intermodal proscription network.
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