The Presque Isle Marina dredging program is scheduled for May 6, 2013, reports uppermichiganssource.com. This area will be closed for boaters until July 1. Regarding this closure, Jon Swenson from the Marquette Parks and Recreation Office, said: “Unfortunately this is the price of progress in order to get things in better shape, boaters, we’re asking [...]
The City of Marquette is starting preparations for the first phase of the Presque Isle Marina dredging project, reports uppermichiganssource. The amount of approved budget for the dredging works scheduled to be completed by July is nearly half a million dollars. The City has announced that the Marina will be closed during the dredging works. [...]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced that it officially requested this week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency remove Presque Isle Bay from the list of Great Lakes Areas of Concern. If EPA approves the request, Presque Isle Bay will be the second American Area of Concern (AOC) taken off the list of environmentally [...]
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The Presque Isle beach replenishment project is finally completed, reports erietvnews.com. Harry Leslie, the Park Manager said, “The contractor still has to shape the dunes. Then when we go into the dormant season, they will take and pull out beach grass plugs from some of our existing dunes and plent them so they are landscaped [...]
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A five-phase project to renovate the marina at Presque Isle in Marquette is literally between a rock and hard place. City engineers announced that the marina piers have deteriorated to the point that the rock inside them has crumbled and spilled out into the lake bottom. This would make phase one of the marina project, [...]
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Presque Isle State Park is reopening Beach 6 at noon Friday following a sand replenishment project. (goerie) Source: goerie, June 17, 2011
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The Marquette City Commission affirmed its commitment to Presque Isle Marina on Monday by accepting a state grant to dredge the harbor… By Christopher Diem (miningjournal) Source: miningjournal, October 28, 2010;
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Beach 6 at Presque Isle State Park is scheduled to be closed today and Tuesday so crews can replenish sand there, park officials said… Source: goerie, July 14, 2010;
