HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Apr. 6, 2024) – It’s time to get the Holland Harbor cleared out for commercial shipping this season.
This weekend, crews from King Company begin dredging the outer harbor channel of about 31,000 cubic yards of sediment. It’s part of an over $900,000 contract awarded to the Holland-based firm by the US Army Corps of Engineers to hydraulically clear out both the Holland and Grand Haven harbors this spring, with both projects having a May 31st targeted completion date.
The sediment from over 6.5 miles of a maintained federal channel heading out from Lake Macatawa will be relocated to the bottom of Lake Michigan, in about eight to 12 feet of water, from 1,200 feet south of the south breakwater to an area approximately 4,500 feet away. It will enable the channel to have depths of 23 feet at the mouth and 21 feet in the inner channel and Lake Mac. King Company has handled such operations for several years.
According to a statement from the Army Corps’ Detroit District Office, which oversees 81 harbors and channels in lakes Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, Erie and Superior, the public is urged to avoid active dredging operations and obey all posted warning lights and signs.
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