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Channels’ dredging should begin in October
Expect the dredging of the Eastpoint Channel and Two Mile to begin in October.
But definitely by Christmas.
Waylon Register, a civil engineer who serves as site manager of Panama City office of the Army Corps of Engineers, said Mike Hooks Inc. is in the process of working on a project on the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway.
“As soon as they finish up there they will be headed to see you,” Register said. “I think the dredge should show up sometime in October.”
He said the first order of business will be to construct the area in Eastpont, bear th western breakwater, from where they’ll use dredge material to create a marshy area.
“To begin with they have to build some berm containment around the water side, and fill in with stuff they dug from the channel,” he said.
The channel will be between 6 and 8 feet.
The cost of the project will be about $7.05 million.
“We should see some activity between Labor Day and Christmas,” Register said.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.