When low tide arrives, Jardar Nygaard, co-owner of Cos Cob-based Fjord Fisheries, knows there's a good chance his clam boat will scrape the river bottom as it sails the Mianus River.
On a very low tide you can feel yourself really pushing through the mud. It's like chocolate pudding,' he said.
It's not only the river bottom that poses a hazard, it is also anything that has been dumped over the side of a boat or somehow made its way into the river, he said.
'If there's any metal there, you can hit that. Two years go I damaged a propeller after it hit some metal -- just a day after I got it back after spending $800 to repitch it,' Nygaard said, referring to a propeller adjustment.
But an official hopes that plans for a multimillion dredging job to remove decades of built-up sediments in the Greenwich Harbor Channel and the Mianus River will pass both funding and environmental hurdles.....
On a very low tide you can feel yourself really pushing through the mud. It's like chocolate pudding,' he said.
It's not only the river bottom that poses a hazard, it is also anything that has been dumped over the side of a boat or somehow made its way into the river, he said.
'If there's any metal there, you can hit that. Two years go I damaged a propeller after it hit some metal -- just a day after I got it back after spending $800 to repitch it,' Nygaard said, referring to a propeller adjustment.
But an official hopes that plans for a multimillion dredging job to remove decades of built-up sediments in the Greenwich Harbor Channel and the Mianus River will pass both funding and environmental hurdles.....
.....The corps submitted requests of $400,000 and $100,000 this year to Congress for work including testing the material in Greenwich Harbor. O'Donnell said the Mianus River has been found to be clean enough to dump in the Western Long Island Sound disposal site a few miles off Greenwich, in waters near the state line with New York.
In Byram, the Port Chester Harbor channel is overseen by the Corps of Engineers New York District. It was last dredged in 1990 when 40,000 cubic yards of sediment was scooped from the bottom. There are no plans currently to dredge that channel, said New York District Corps spokesman Chris Gardner.
If funding is approved, Craine hopes dredging can occur in 2013......
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