![]() ![]() “We take into consideration holiday celebrations like Fourth of July fireworks … there’s going to be a lot of boat traffic. ![]() To keep pace with all the material being dredged, Thomas Murphy, Marinex site safety health officer on the dredging barge Hampton Roads, said maintenance dredging runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with few exceptions. The government also removes approximately 1 million cubic yards on the entrance channel, and deposits the material in the Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site,” said Burton Moore, Savannah District dredging section chief. “We remove approximately 4 to 5 million cubic yards a year on the inner harbor and place the material in the confined upland disposal areas on Barnwell Island South Carolina and Jones Oysterbed Island South Carolina. It also includes the channel wideners where ships pull over to allow other ships to sail past and the turning basin where ships get turned around. This dredging requires removing silt from the almost 2 mile-long entrance channel and the over 21 mile-long inner harbor. Keeping the shipping channel at that prescribed depth requires maintenance dredging. Today, through missions like the Savannah Harbor Federal Navigation Project, the Savannah District maintains the channel to a depth of 42 feet. In 1829, the Corps of Engineers was assigned to “Savannah Station,” and surveyed a river that was only about 5 feet deep. Today that task means around-the-clock work to keep massive ships moving in and out of the harbor. Army Corps of Engineers has had the mission of maintaining the Savannah River. ![]()
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