Private dredging to compete with Army Corps of Engineers

[Stanley Tobasco]

http://www.courant.com/community/westbrook/hc-westbrook-dredging-1216.artdec15,0,7120621.story

[Stanley Tobasco]

<sa...@dog.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:06:11 -0700, "Stanley Tobasco"
> <stanle...@hotredone.com> wrote:
>
>>http://www.courant.com/community/westbrook/hc-westbrook-dredging-1216.artdec15,0,7120621.story
>>
>
> Yeah, so? That river was completely dredged about 10 years ago, and
> they have gone back and done additional dreging in trouble spots since
> then. There was a pretty big dredging there of the entrance channel in
> 2008. It's not like so many other harbors that haven't been dredged at
> all since the 1960's.
>

Your point is the river requires frequent dredging?

[Sjouke Burry]

That depends on the number of old cars and bicycles
at the bottom.
It maybe also depends on the amount of other
sediments carried downstream.
In my country the first reasons are the most important
in urban areas, boatloads of bicycles around Amsterdam.

[sa...@dog.com]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:49:03 -0700, "Stanley Tobasco"
<stanle...@hotredone.com> wrote:

>
><sa...@dog.com> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:06:11 -0700, "Stanley Tobasco"
>> <stanle...@hotredone.com> wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.courant.com/community/westbrook/hc-westbrook-dredging-1216.artdec15,0,7120621.story
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, so? That river was completely dredged about 10 years ago, and
>> they have gone back and done additional dreging in trouble spots since
>> then. There was a pretty big dredging there of the entrance channel in
>> 2008. It's not like so many other harbors that haven't been dredged at
>> all since the 1960's.
>>
>
>Your point is the river requires frequent dredging?
>

Perhaps the corps of engineers could have spent a little of that money
figuring out how to fix the underlying problem, rather than endlessly
pissing it away. If you ever visit that place, you should be able to
figure it out very quickly without spending millions of dollars on a
study.

[Stanley Tobasco]

<sa...@dog.com> wrote in message
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> Perhaps the corps of engineers could have spent a little of that money
> figuring out how to fix the underlying problem, rather than endlessly
> pissing it away. If you ever visit that place, you should be able to
> figure it out very quickly without spending millions of dollars on a
> study.
>

The newsclip did mention private citizens taking the matter into their own
hands. This is all very newsworthy, your insights and experiences could be
valuable to others if you are willing to share it. What is the actual cause
of the problem as you see it?