Driving back through Leesburg from the lighthouse today. Saw four maybe six dredgers docked at various spots along the way.Hope to return in a week or two and watch them work.
Maurice River Dredging
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"Some of the material dredged from the channel will be used to restore wetlands and fend off erosion, according to a description posted by the Army Corps."
Army Corps dredging could make a big difference on Maurice River - DredgeWire
MAURICE RIVER TOWNSHIP — On a sunny Sunday morning at Anchor Marina on the Maurice River, Bob Myers Jr. sits in the shade of a small white building, overlooking a line of boat slips. The marina is on a bend near the mouth of the river, just out of sight from the Delaware Bay, on... Read More
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Their dredging Nantuxent channel as well and shooting the spoils up on Money Island to build the beach back
? Dredge spoils are often replete with noxious material. I hope this is not a swimming beach.
I read that the state is offering to buy many of the homes on Money Island. Which I guess would make it like Thompson's Beach in a decade or two.
Due to the location, sounds like a place of biting flies. I can't seem to properly locate it.
No definitely not a beach for swimming. Their opening the channel up thats sil;ted in because the oyster boats at Money Island and Newport are having a hard time getting in and out because of shallow water.