LITTLE NARRAGANSETT BAY: ARMY CORPS PLANS MORE DREDGING

The public has until Sept. 24 to request a public hearing on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’planto dredge up to 2,600 cubic yards of hard-packed sand and 750 to 1,000 cubic yards of rock and cobble from the entrance channel to Little Narragansett Bay.

The work, which would begin in October and take about three weeks, is the second part of a dredging project in the bay and lower Pawcatuck River undertaken by the corps last November and December.

The dredge site is at the northwest end of Sandy Point in Fishers Island Sound.

The hard-packed sand and rocks could not be removed at that time, the Army Corps said in a news release, and are still limiting the depth of the navigation channel.

The sand would be brought to an area off Misquamicut State Beach inWesterly to nourish the beach, and the rock will be placed about 5,000 feet west and 1,000 feet seaward of the sand disposal site.

For information about the plan, visit:

http://www.nae.usace.army. mil/Media/NewsReleases/ tabid/11736/Article/615360/ corps-of-engineers-proposesdredging-rock-hard-packedsand-from-portions-of-lit.aspx.

Requests for a hearing and comments on the plan should be sent by mail to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, 696 Virginia Road, Concord, Mass., 01742-2751, ATTN: Daniel Stenstream; or via email at: nae-pn-navusace. army.mil.