Dredging restores Muskegon harbor to safe depths
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by Robert C. Burns | The Musekgon Chronicle
Muskegon is a deep-water port again, following a spring dredging operation that returned the outer harbor to safe depths of up to 30 feet.
The King Co. of Holland restored those depths under a dredging schedule expedited by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after four lake freighters were halted during the last shipping season.
However, the Corps of Engineers says the dredging contractor missed one small area south of the centerline approach between Muskegon’s outer pierheads. In that area, recent surveys indicated a depth as shallow as 26.2 feet.
That discovery prompted the Corps to send out a notice to shippers similar to one issued last August, which warned shippers of “shoaling,” the presence of a sandbar, outside Muskegon’s harbor entrance.
