Corps Sending Two Dredges to Reopen Clogged Oregon Inlet
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Outer Banks Voice] By Rob Morris - April 1, 2015
Two dredges are steaming to Oregon Inlet to start clearing out the closed channel starting as early as Wednesday.
The sidecast dredge Merritt, which can operate in shallow water, will carve out an 8-foot-deep opening to allow the larger Currituck, a hopper dredge, to do more extensive work, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a statement Monday.
On Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard enacted its emergency power to prohibit boats drawing more than 2 feet from motoring within 100 yards of the Bonner Bridge.
Charter boats need 3 to 5 feet and cannot...
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