Cadet Bayou navigation project on the table

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District is proposing to continue maintenance dredging of the federally authorized Cadet Bayou navigation project, Hancock County, Mississippi.

According to the Corps, the project provides for an 8-foot deep by 100-foot-wide entrance channel extending from the 8-foot depth contour in Mississippi Sound for approximately 7,800 feet to the mouth of the bayou. The channel would be maintained via hydraulic pipeline dredge.

USACE estimates that around 175,000 cubic yards of material will be removed from the channel each dredging cycle with average cycles occurring every 5 to 6 years.

However, the actual time between dredging cycles and uses of the placement area may vary due to the variable rates of shoaling and availability of funding.

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