[outrageous21]

Has anyone heard of the progress and an expected finishing date for the Jones Inlet Dredging. Thanks Rob

 

[Aquarius]

They are just about done. If you check the Point Lookout web cam, GLDD is already disassembling the dredge pipe. Do a search, there is a thread with several pictures, links, and other info.

 

[Scott1280]

Point Lookout Cam
Wait till it's light out. It's live!

 

[648457]

i sure hope they're not done the inlet doesnt seem any deeper or safer. theres still whitewater all the way across when its nasty

 

[Squeri Boy]

Invincible,
Whats up? When were you out the inlet recently?

 

[bloodnguts]

crazybass85 wrote:
i heard there done and the equiptment is being moved out, the snow fence came down today so the sand can be leveled in time for the plover nesting


thank god....i lost sleep over the plovers for 3 weeks........c'mon...seriously...do they really taste like chicken?

 

[outrageous21]

maybe they will drop one of the pipes and we will have are artificial reef.

Ill do the search thanks.

 

[LobsterD]

Beach replenishment was the main objective of all the equipment in Jones, the inlet is secondary. The way it's been blowing, the crew might still be needed for some more sand

 

[Scott1280]

bloodnguts wrote:
crazybass85 wrote:
i heard there done and the equiptment is being moved out, the snow fence came down today so the sand can be leveled in time for the plover nesting

thank god....i lost sleep over the plovers for 3 weeks........c'mon...seriously...do they really taste like chicken?
Only one way to find out.....

 

[Hooper]

They are done one way or the other in time for the plovers arrival. All that sand at Point Lookout came from somewhere. Now there's lots more nesting area. The West Bar will always be there. Making the inlet deeper and wider will change things for a while, at least the deeper draft boats will have more room to operate.

Hooper

 

[648457]

came thru inlet on friday night . according to the sounder they havnt touched the main channel between the bouys and white water sourounded the rest. looks like things will be the same again this summer

 

[WhatKnot]

Is it possible that they dredged but as of yet have not relocated the buoys? If the channel has not been improved it would be a wasted opportunity.




This post edited by WhatKnot 11:41 PM 03/09/2008

 

[Scott1280]

I wonder if they have the same contractor working on the inlet that is doing the work on the Wantagh Bridge?

 

[paulh]

That's a good point about having not yet moved the buoys (yet). Hope you are correct.

I haven't been out in the past couple of weeks, prior to that the dredge was working diligently on the east bar, the buoys hadn't been moved because the dredge was working in the "new channel".

Although you might think that major changes needed to be made to JI, bear in mind that the inlet, including red flashers 4 and 6 has not moved in many years and there remains a deep channel in this area.

The sand has encroached from the east, only in the area south of this (south of the tip of the jetty). This is what has literally pushed the "channel" onto the west bar.

So as dredging operations go, this was probably not all that big of an operation.

Hopefully, the JI Buoy and channel will move back to the east, and JI will be a safer happier place. Not that it was ever pure heaven, but it certainly needed some work ...

 

[outrageous21]

Scott1280 wrote:
I wonder if they have the same contractor working on the inlet that is doing the work on the Wantagh Bridge?

LMAO I sure hope not

 

[Aquarius]

I just checked the newest Local Notice to Mariner for District 1.

Local Notice to Mariners 12/08

It looks like bouys 9 through 15, just east of Reyolds Channel have been repositioned or re established. The LNM says nothing about bouys 1 through 4 or the JI which are at the entrance to the inlet.

I guess we will have to wait and see if they reestablish the newly dredged channel.

Edit: Just trying to get the link to work.

This post edited by Aquarius 05:24 PM 03/20/2008