![]() ![]() Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Vollen. Securing funding for dredging Knapps Narrows was a multi-agency effort that included local advocacy from the Talbot County Council, Maryland District 37 legislators, Congressman Andy Harris, and MD U.S. Nearly 100,000 cubic yards of sand, silt, and mud will be removed. The entire 1.7 mile long channel will be dredged to an authorized 9-foot mean lower low water (MLLW), plus 2 feet of allowable over-depth. In a USACE report, the scope of work consists of hydraulically dredging and pumping material from Knapps Narrows channel to a disposal site. ![]() Since then, silting has dramatically reduced the depth of the channel to a depth of 1.5 to 2.5 feet in some places. Previous dredging of Knapps Narrows was last completed in 2006. The Corp received bids for maintenance dredging in January 2018 and selected Evansville, Indiana based Southwind Construction as the low bidder at $1.4 million. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District in coordination with Maryland Department of the Environment and Talbot County Department of Public Works. The long anticipated dredging of the Knapps Narrows Federal Navigation Channel is finally underway.Įxpected to be completed on May 1, 2018, the project is being overseen by the U.S. ![]()
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