Sand Shifter News Today

Barnstable County (Cape Cod) Massachusetts yesterday published a video update about the Allen Harbor Approach Channel dredging project.

Barnstable County Government has just announced that mobilizing continues for the Stage Harbor Approach Channel dredging project.

Barnstable County, Massachusetts, recently announced the successful completion of another dredging project, the Truro’s Pamet Harbor Dredge scheme.

Every year a fleet of county dredges slowly rebuilds Cape Cod.  From October to mid-June, the fleet works against the currents that carry sand into the waterways that Cape Codders depend on for everything from commerce to leisure to public safety.  Egg-beater-like cutterheads affixed to the dredges dip beneath the cold waves to stir and suck up wayward sand slurry, which is pumped through thousands of feet of pipe to pad parts of the peninsula that Cape Codders want to preserve, including bea...