Posted on May 9, 2017
By Jim Shay, ctpost
The biggest dredging project of the Housatonic River in more than 40 years is scheduled to begin this fall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced.
The project will remove nearly 300,000 cubic yards of clean, fine sand from the navigation channel.
It’s the first major dredging of the Housatonic since 1976. The last dredging of the Housatonic was in November 2012 when the Corps’ dredge Currituck removed abot 50,000 yards of shoal material.
The dredging will restore most of the authorized depth and width of the channel from the mouth of the Housatonic between Milford and Stratford to about five miles upstream to the Valley.
Both recreational and commercial vessels use the river. More than 1,000 vessels are based in the river and harbor, including approximately 15 commercial vessels.
Source: ctpost
