Posted on December 14, 2015
By David Tranchida, Mystic River Press
Dredging crews from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers are removing large rocks and hard packed material from the busy channel in Little Narragansett Bay.
This is the second phase of a dredging project that started last year around this time.
Stonington Harbor Master Eric Donch said the crew, with the 105-foot Snell crane barge and the 150-foot Currituck hopper barge, started work Nov. 28 and expect to complete the job later this week.
The equipment is designed to remove large rocks and areas of hard packed sand that could not be removed with the equipment used in the first phase of the channel restoration.
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