Posted on July 7, 2016
By Dan Radel, app.com
The state will do maintenance dredging in several creeks and navigational channels on the lower Manasquan River in a $3.4 million project to start this month.
Kevin Israel, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation said the scope of work includes Crabtown Creek, Kings Bridge Channel, Wills Hole Thorofare, and Wills Hole West all located in Brielle, Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant Beach.
“The majority of the sand material will be pumped to the Manasquan jetty for the purposes of beach replenishment. The remaining material will be pumped to the Gull Island Confined Disposal Facility in Point Pleasant Beach,” Israel said.
Roughly 140,000 cubic yards of river bottom will be dredged according to the bid document for the work. The state awarded the contract to a Port Jefferson, New York-based company Village Dock Contracting, Inc.
Fishing boat captains said water depth in the channels can be low and a navigational concern.
“It’s much shallower now than it has been in years. Even in a high tide I’m kicking up mud,” said Capt. Dave Riback, owner of the Queen Mary, a party boat vessel that docks in Point Pleasant Beach.
Riback uses Wills Hole Thorofare to access the Manasquan Inlet.
Source: app.com
