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10/22/2014 12:00 AMMaintenance dredging of a portion of the Guilford Harbor will be completed under the terms of a $2.24 million contract recently awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE).
The work is necessary, officials said, to repair the damage done to the harbor by Superstorm Sandy.
The work is scheduled to start in mid-November and will be done by the Madison company, Coastline Consulting and Development. The entire project will take 10 weeks to complete.
"The dredging work will include the main federal navigation channel; an anchorage located in the East River, approximately 100 feet by 1,500 feet; and the 55-foot wide, 800-foot long Sluice Creek Channel, which connects the Guilford Marina to the main federal navigation channel," said project manager Daniel Stenstream of the ACE Programs and Project Management Division.
"In addition to these areas, the Town of Guilford Marina may also be dredged," said Stenstream.
Approximately 60,000 total cubic yards of sandy material will be dredged from the main channel, anchorage, Sluice Creek, and marina. A mechanical dredge using various types of clamshell buckets will remove material from the shoaled portions of the Guilford Harbor federal navigation channel and marina, and place the material in scows that will be towed to the Central Long Island disposal area in Long Island Sound for disposal.
The authorized federal projects includes a navigation channel six feet deep below mean lower low water and 100 feet wide, extending 6,000 linear feet from the confluence of the East and Neck rivers out into Guilford Harbor.