Dredging of sections of the Housatonic River began as Hurricane Sandy subsided. This will be the first time the river has seen significant dredging since 1976.

Housatonic River to be dredged

Dredging of sections of the Housatonic River began as Hurricane Sandy subsided. This will be the first time the river has seen significant dredging since 1976.

It will take about a month to move 50,000 cubic yards of silt and deepen the channel in the Housatonic River.

It took more than a decade to dredge through the process of making it happen.

“For 13 years we’ve been working on this,” Bill Rock, chairman of the Stratford Waterfront and Harbor Management Commission, said.

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