Back Bay Dredging Works

Ocean City to host town hall meeting on Saturday morning to discuss dredging project on the back bay. ACT Engineering officials will present the plans for the 2017 dredging program and other long-term efforts to keep the lagoons and channels navigable.

Bigger boats have trouble navigating the bay because of years of siltation in water accessways. It has been long trying for the city to tackle more than 900,000 cubic yards of silt that has built up in the back bay, narrowing channels and causing problems for boaters. The city has done several small dredgings in the past two years.

It will continue to use the confined disposal facility site at Route 52 to complete mechanical dredging projects at the north end of the island this summer.

The news is collated by Globaldredge.com – Dredging Pipeline Supplier.