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GA: St. Simons Sound, Dredging
- Date Reported: Aug 22, 2024
- Reporter: Ted Stehle
- Source: CG 7th District LNM 0734/24
- Description:
Cottrell Contracting Corporation of Chesapeake, Virginia advises that the dredge NEWMARKET will be conducting dredging operations in the Brunswick Inner Harbor, Glenn County, GA. The work will be ongoing from August 23, 2024, with an estimated completion date of December 31, 2024, from approximately 2,000 feet north of the Colonels Island Range Front Light (LLNR (6330) to St Simons Sound Lighted Buoy 19 (LLNR 6140). The dredge will also continue into the East River on the east side of Andrews Island. The pipeline will extend from the dredge to the Andrews Island Disposal Area.
All mariners are requested to stay clear of the dredge, pipelines, barge, derricks, and operating wires about the dredge. All operators should be aware that the dredge and pontoon lines are held in place by cables, which are attached to anchors some distance from the dredge and pontoons. Buoys are attached to the anchors so that they may be moved as the dredge moves. Submerged lines should be avoided. Mariners are requested to exercise extreme caution when approaching, passing, and leaving the dredging plant. The dredge NEWMARKET monitors VHF-FM channels 13 and 16. Mariners are cautioned to strictly comply with the Inland Rules of the Road when approaching, passing and leaving the area of operations, and remain a safe distance away from the dredge, booster, buoys, cables, pipeline, barges, derricks, wires and related equipment.
Owners and lessees of fishnets, crabpots and other structures that may be in the vicinity and that may hinder the free navigation of attending vessels and equipment must remove these from the area where tugs, tender boats and other attendant equipment will be navigating. Dredging operations will be conducted twenty-four hours a day seven, days a week, all fishnets, crab pots and structures in the general area must be removed prior to commencement of any work, a slow NO WAKE speed is requested of transiting vessels. All vessels are requested to contact the dredge prior to passing. - Lat / Lon: N 31° 07.906' / W 081° 24.544'
