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Rye Municipal Boat Basin and a portion of the Milton Harbor Federal Navigation Project
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Rye, NY
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Marine
Scope Of Work
The work was necessitated by extreme erosion and subsequent sediment deposition in the marina from the Blind Brook watershed during tropical storms Irene and Sandy. Rye maintains the marina for emergency services and recreational watercraft, and the sediment deposition at the mouth of Blind Brook obstructed access to the marina and kept emergency services vessels from operating for much of the tidal cycle.
Dredging contractor Patriot Marine of Winthrop, Massachusetts began the project on May 2 and finished May 31, well within the five-week window authorized by the regulatory agencies.
Patriot Marine used its Komatsu PC 650 excavator, Patriot 389, equipped with a 3½ -cubic-yard hydraulic clamshell bucket, to remove a combination of silt and organic debris that had washed into about 800 feet of channel. The dredge loaded into the 800-cubic-yard scow Patriot 177, which then made the 40 nautical mile round trip to the Western Long Island Sound Dredged Material Disposal Site (WLIS) off Darien, Connecticut, pushed by the 96-foot tug Ocean King.
The dredging proceeded with a crew of six – an excavator operator, an engineer, two deck hands, tugboat captain and mate.
