By staff report
The Stuart News
Thursday, November 19, 2009
PORT SALERNO — The wheels are in motion for the Manatee Pocket dredging project in Port Salerno, county officials have announced.
This week a pipeline is being constructed in the Crooked Creek area for transport of the dredged material to a material handing site off of U.S. 1, according to a news release. A barge will be used to transport and install temporary pilings in Crooked Creek. A portion of the pipeline will be floating, while the rest will be submerged. Signs and lights will identify both the floating and submerged pipeline and piling. Docks along Crooked Creek will remain accessible, official said.
Work began last week to prepare a staging area at Sandsprit Park that will take up seven boat trailer parking spaces at the west end of the park and 16 boat trailer parking spaces in the westerly island. The two westerly ramps will be used to launch pipe equipment and vessels. The other boat ramps at the park will continue to be publicly accessible, officials said.
Dredging is expected to begin in early January. The project entails the removal of about 280,000 cubic yards of muck, resulting in a clean, 100-foot-wide channel that will provide navigational, economic and environmental enhancements to the Manatee Pocket and its adjacent waterways.
For more information visit www.manateepocketproject.com.
