On July 17, 2006 dredging of the overburden on the selected site was started for installation of the piling.This operation was the most environmentally invasive of the project, but it was estimated that only about 20 square metres of the bottom were disturbed. Given that this is such a high current area, within a year there were no visible changes to the are around the piling. The following pictures were captured from the
remote Camera 5. by G. Fletcher.
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- Removal of the dredge
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- Over a meter of overburden had to be displaced in order to clear a site for the dril
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- Completion of the operation
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- The dredge bucket on the barge.. note markings are in feet.
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- Dredge bucket