Posted on September 28, 2026
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has started dredging works in Burrard Inlet’s Second Narrows, beginning a project designed to improve shipping efficiency and allow cargo ships using the channel to load more fully.
The project covers around 17,000 sq m along the northern and southern edges of the deep-sea navigation channel east of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and involves dredging approximately 25,000 cu m of material. The channel will be dredged to a maximum depth of 13.5 metres below chart datum.
The works also include removing sections of decommissioned Metro Vancouver waterlines that overlap the dredging area and installing two new range lights west of the bridge.
Dredging is scheduled to continue through February 2027. The navigation channel will remain open to commercial and recreational traffic throughout construction.
