Source: E wehe ʻia mai ka Bay Weekly On-Line Publication
ʻO Deale ka nui loa o ke awa ʻo Western Shore i kapa ʻia ma waena o Annapolis a me Solomons. Akā i ka piʻi ʻana i nā wai i mālama ʻia, pono nā moku holo iā Scylla a me Charybdis. ʻO nā incarnations o kēia mau lā ua hoʻohālikelike ʻia nā ʻano nui o Odyssean i kahi nui.
ʻO Scylla, ka pōhaku, ka jetty pōhaku 900 kapuaʻi e pale ana i ke awa mai ka ʻākau. Inā hele ʻoe ma waena o Scylla, pono ʻoe e hoʻokau iā Charybdis. ʻO kahi whirlpool i kāna ʻāina Straits of Messina, ʻo Deale's Charybdis ka wai kūpaʻa o Rockhold Creek, ke kahawai i ke awa ʻo Deale.
Hoʻokomo paʻa ʻia ʻo Scylla, akā i kēlā me kēia ʻeono mau makahiki a ʻoi paha ka Army Corps of Engineers i hoʻokau iā Charybdis, e ʻeli nei iā Rockhold Creek ma kahi o 7,000 kapuaʻi mai ka waha o ke awa a hiki i ke alahaka ma o ke Alanui 256. Ua ʻeli loa ʻia ke kahawai i koho ʻia e federally ma 1994. Manaʻo ʻia ʻehiku kapuaʻi ka hohonu.
I kēia manawa, ua like ia me ka kapuaʻi a me ka hapalua o ka papaʻu ma kekahi mau wahi, e like me kā Tom Wilhem, ka mea mālama pono o Herrington Harbour North, ma ke kahawai. Mālama ʻo Marinas e like me Herrington i kā lākou ala ponoʻī e hoʻokele.
"Ke hāmau nei ke kahawai, a ʻaʻole hiki i ka hapa nui o ka poʻe ke lawe aku i kā lākou mau waʻa," ʻo nā hopohopo o kēlā poʻe, ka luina Jack Hanse, ka mea e paʻa ana ma ke kahawai ma Shipwright Harbor.
Ke hele nei ke kōkua ma ke ala, e like me ka loio o Congressman Steny Hoyer, ka mea i loko o ka hapalua miliona miliona i loko o ka waihona o ka Energy Energy a me nā Waiwai ʻia i loko o ka makahiki i hala.
"Ua hoʻāʻo nui mākou e hana i ka hana me ka wikiwiki e hiki ai no ka mea nui ia i ke kaiāulu wai Deale," wahi a Hoyer.
Ua hoʻolōʻihi nā hui ʻelua, e komo pū ana me South Maryland Dredging of Friendship.
ʻO ka mea lanakila, Bay West Inc. o St. Paul, Minn., Lawe ʻia i kāna Ellicott® Brand Series 370 dredge e ka lā mua o Pepeluali me hoʻokahi mahina e hoʻopau ai i kāna ʻeli ʻana.
ʻO ka dredge 370, hoʻolālā ʻia a kūkulu ʻia e Ellicott® a Division of Baltimore Dredges kahi ponoloko uila i lawe ʻia e ka pontoon e lawe i ka sediment a hoʻouna iā ia ma o kahi paipu i kahi pūnaewele dredge. I kēia hihia, ʻae ʻo Herrington Harbour ʻĀkau i ka waiwai dredge.
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