Canal dredging. Thoughts or experiences.

[OrlyJ]

Originally Posted by ChrisFord12

If you have the patience to navigate through the video of the March 22, 2022 Commissioner's meeting, https://charlotte.granicus.com/playe...&redirect=true , you will see that unfortunately the County Commissioners voted down the idea of continuing any further with the dredging project. That's after spending $40K+ of taxpayer funds to have a bathometric survey completed. Which by the way, validated that much of the waterways under the Edgewater North MSBU's oversight do not meet the desired baseline of 3.5ft depth at average low tide. Backed up by the pics in this thread. The take away from the pics isn't be that on this particular abnormal tidal day there was no water in the canals. Rare tidal extremes are going to occur. The take away is that the canals are so silted in that even at HIGH tides, as indicated by the high tide water marks on the seawalls, they don't have 3.5 ft of water depth!
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I spoke to some of the attendees of that meeting. Disappointed and a bit surprised in the Counties decision not to dredge. Only reason I would forgo the dredging right now is the higher costs due to inflation and supply chain issue. I don't mind waiting a little bit till costs hopefully improve and go for a deeper dredge depth. Some of those opposed lived very close to the main canal so shallow depths are not much of an issue, how thoughtful of them. The rest get screwed.