Next Up for Bayside Dredging: Glen Cove and Snug Harbor
The two lagoons on opposite sides of Ninth Street may get deeper in 2013.
It's been a common sight this year: boats lying in the mud at low tide in the two lagoons on either side of the Ninth Street Bridge.
But Snug Harbor and Glen Cove may see deeper water next year if City Council approves funding for continued dredging of Ocean City's bayside lagoons, which are filled with enough sediment to make them impassable to boat traffic at low tide.
A project to dredge the lagoons and channels between 15th and 34th streets will be complete by the end of the year. The dredging work could continue with Glen Cove (between 10th and 11th streets) and Snug Harbor (between Eighth and Ninth streets) in 2013.
A new "Confined Disposal Facility" (CDF) — a place to put the dredge spoils — will be ready this spring, according to Ocean City Business Administrator Mike Dattilo. The current project between 15th and 34th streets will fill an existing spoils site in the marshes near 34th Street. The new CDF will be along the Route 52 causeway.
The city has a permit that would allow a June 1, 2013 start for Glen Cove and/or Snug Harbor dredging, according to Dattilo.
Mayor Jay Gillian's administration included $250,000 for the 2013 dredging of the two lagoons in a five-year capital plan released earlier in December. But individual appropriations within the plan must be approved by City Council.
Work across the bay from the two lagoons that is continuing this month is not related to the new spoils site. Crews working on Route 52 reconstruction are restoring wetlands at a staging area for the massive project.
JOHN J. VAN STONE
6:39 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Good...these folks really need it especially on northside of Ninth Street.
ThanksOCGovernment
11:32 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
More government handouts....THANKS - A grateful 10th Street (Glen Cove) Lagoon boater who loves me some government.
Marlin Magnet
9:15 am on Monday, December 24, 2012
Did the previous Dredge contract from waterway to 15th street get completed?
Fred
7:21 am on Thursday, December 27, 2012
When will the back bay areas North of 9th St. be dredged? Many boat slips are unusable during low tide.
UTT OH
10:32 am on Thursday, December 27, 2012
This just in: The boat slips whose owners agree with the essence of Romney's 47% speech are ineligible for the taxpayer funded dredging. And, be advised that those who agree with Romney's position will soon lose all direct and indirect govenment funding of their businesses, corporate tax breaks, flood insurance, and will be prohibited from traveling on public roads and bridges. They will also be unable to use drugs, technologies, etc. developed with government funding. Please make the necessary preparations.
Fred
6:02 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Gimmie,Gimmie Gimmie, I need, I need, I need.....
Jack Florig
9:29 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
And trust President Obama he will take care of all your needs, if you give him all your money. 100% tax is justified if that amount of care is given.
Utt Oh
10:15 am on Friday, December 28, 2012
Includuding the 53%ers? And Obama would have to raise taxes at a record rate because taxes have been at their lowest level since WWII, thanks in large part to him not having raised taxes but having cut them for 95% of households. But that kind of info is just for the reality-based community (vs. the balance, you know, the people who were certain Romney was gonna win up to and including election night depite a concensus of fact-based indicators showing he would lose.).
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Fred
6:12 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
We have 3 usable slips out of 12 at our marina at 12th street. I know that the rt 52 Project caused a dramatic filling over the last 3 years. The intercoastal was moved some 75 feet at 9th street causing a substatial increase in suspended sediment in the region several blocks north & south of the construction. Funding for dredging should be secured from the Route 52 Constructors and thier bond.