The Sheboygan River dredging program is nearing its completion, city officials said Monday. Dredging work in the river upstream of the Eighth Street bridge will wrap up this week, while work in the inner harbor up to the Eighth Street bridge will be completed by Christmas, officials announced in a statement. Chad Pelishek, the city’s [...]
The bridge over the Sheboygan River will be closed to traffic during the next week because of the dredging project. From 7:00 pm to 7:00 AM, September 25-27, 2012, the Eight Street Bridge will be closed. During these periods, Ryba Terra Joint Venture will be dredging approximately 1,400 yards of sediment from the river, which [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Sheboygan area officials joined forces to kick off the final dredging work and habitat restoration projects needed to remove the Sheboygan River “Area of Concern” from a list of toxic hot spots identified in the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. EPA has targeted up to $57 million for [...]
A portion of the Sheboygan River dredging project is currently on hold, but dredging upriver is scheduled to begin in a few weeks, according to whbl.com. Economic Development Director Chad Pelishek said Thursday that the EPA has withdrawn the contract for the contractor, who was to dredge the river from the 8th Street Bridge to [...]
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The Sheboygan County has received a $1.5 million Department of Transportation grant to help in dredging the Sheboygan River and its inner harbor, reports sheboyganpress.com. This grant will leverage nearly $14 million in other funding to pay for dredging the river to a depth of up to 16 feet deep that will allow cruise ships [...]
According to sheboyganpress.com, Chad Pelishek, the City Development Manager, told the Common Council at its Monday night meeting that the cost of Sheboygan River dredging tainted sediment from the river between the Eighth Street bridge and Kiwanis Park came in $1.22 million higher than expected and that the amount of sediment to be dredged would [...]
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Development Manager Chad Pelishek, in an interview on Sheboygan’s Morning News Thursday, said the traffic will be generated by the dredging project on the Sheboygan River. Pelishek says they’ll be working 24/7, estimating about 300 trucks a day out of downtown Sheboygan until the project is complete. He also stated that the dredging is scheduled [...]
As sheboyganpress.com reports, the Sheboygan Common Council on Wednesday unanimously approved spending $250,000 to help dredge tainted sediment from the Sheboygan River’s inner harbor east of the Eighth Street Bridge. This money will come from the city’s undesignated reserve fund and will match another $250,000 pledged to the project last month by the Sheboygan [...]
The Sheboygan Harbor was last dredged to its authorized depth in 1969. Since then, a restriction was placed on dredging the federal channel in Sheboygan due to contamination from PCBs. Also, sediment that settles in the harbor has resulted in a restriction of the safe draft for shallow draft vessels . Large vessels can no [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared the lower 14 mile section of the Sheboygan River a hazardous waste site under the EPA Superfund legislation in 1986. A Sheboygan River Dredging Workgroup was established in August of 2009 to assist in coordinating these projects, and is represented by officials from the EPA Region 5, Great Lakes [...]
