San Rafael supplements creek dredging with $3.46M job
San Rafael approved a $3.46 million project complementing the effort to dredge San Rafael Creek for the first time in 20 years.
The City Council voted 3-0 this week to approve a contract with the Dutra Group to complete dredging of private harbors and marinas of the creek’s inner channel. The San Rafael-based marine construction firm is the same crew hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that is actively dredging the federally-controlled territory of the canal.
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U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, whose district includes Marin, previously said that smaller, shallow-draft harbors such as those along San Rafael Creek have largely been considered “stepchildren” in the huge portfolio of navigable waterways the Army Corps of Engineers has on its to-do list.
Huffman said he is interested in reforming how the Army Corps of Engineers handles these smaller systems and finding ways to get these dredging projects into the hands of local public-private partnerships.
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By: Adrian Rodriguez
Source: Marin Independent Journal
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