![]() ![]() Until now, private property dredging had not been done with such a fine approach in Newport Beach. With a 6-inch-diameter hose, the diver does detail work like one might when cleaning an aquarium. That’s where precision dredging, hand-directed by a diver in a stainless-steel hard hat/dive helmet, comes in. Mechanical dredging is the method the city uses for its wide navigational waterways.īulky equipment can’t get into the tight nooks and crannies of marinas and private residential and business docks. The system is much smaller and more nimble than the familiar mechanical dredging, which digs out sand with a backhoe-type piece of heavy machinery and dumps its spoils onto a large barge to be hauled away for disposal. The technique, never before used in Newport, uses a wet vac-type system maneuvered by a diver just under the surface. are partnering on a precision hydraulic dredging project that will suck 5,000 cubic yards of sand out of the clogged Channel Reef marina through a hose and deposit it on the public pocket beaches just to the south. The city of Newport Beach and the Channel Reef Community Assn. A new type of dredging in Newport Harbor will balance the shores in the area of Corona del Mar’s China Cove, where there’s too much beach in one area and not enough a few streets away. ![]()
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