Posted on August 13, 2020
Two Rivers would love to tap into beach nourishment to enhance the Lake Michigan Shoreline.
Beach nourishment is described as clean bottom lake sand brought up during the dredging process that would be allowed to be put back on or just off the shoreline. City Manager Greg Buckley says this would be highly beneficial to the city considering the recent high-water levels but regulations have impeded the process.
“Last time the harbor was dredged…every bit of 30,000 yards of dredgings had to go into dump trucks and get hauled to an upland disposal site,” Buckley told SeehaferNews.com. That site was five miles away constructed by the city off Mirro Drive on some unused Industrial Park Property which Buckley describes as a “huge waste and terribly expensive.”
State Senator Andre Jacque and State Representative Shae Sortwell and some co-sponsors-introduced a bill in the last session of the Legislature that would allow the Cool City use of that product when dredging is done by a local unit as they, unlike the Corps of Engineers, would not have to obtain a DNR permit to perform the work.
Meanwhile, Buckley says the City is still “lobbying our federal reps and the corps to get a harbor study done… because we firmly believe some changes to the harbor entrance could reduce the surge problem we have…and could reduce the frequency of which harbor dredging is required.”
A bi-partisan letter of support has been signed the last two years for work to be done on the harbor entrance by U.S. Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin Along with U.S. Congressman Glen Grothman.
Source: seehafernews
