ʻO ka Barnstable County, Massachusetts, ka papahana dredging i hoʻolauleʻa i kāna makahiki 25th. ʻO ke kalana, nona a hoʻohana i ʻekolu mau pahu ʻoki ʻoki ʻoki ʻoki ʻo Ellicott®, ua wehe i kahi kokoke i 2.4 miliona cubic iwilei o nā mea ma mua o 300 mau hana dredging.
No ka hapahā o ke kenekulia, ua mālama ka papahana i nā ala wai i a mai ke kai kūʻono i maʻalahi ke hoʻokele no nā moku lawaiʻa, me 95% o nā mea dredged e kōkua ana i ka hoʻihoʻi ʻana i nā kahakai a puni ka peninsula.
ʻO ka makahiki i hala aku nei ka lanakila loa a hiki i kēia lā, me kahi kokoke i 150,000 cubic iwilei i wehe ʻia mai nā papahana ma Barnstable, Yarmouth, Falmouth, Bourne, Provincetown, Truro, Dennis, Mashpee, Chatham, a me Harwich. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Ted Keon, ke kūlanakauhale o Chatham's Coastal Resources director, ke hilinaʻi nei nā kaiāulu moana i nā ala wai palekana a hilinaʻi.
"He mea koʻikoʻi ka ʻauwaʻa lawaiʻa o Chatham i ka hoʻokele waiwai o ke kūlanakauhale a me ka mokuʻāina holoʻokoʻa," wahi a Ted Keon, ke kūlanakauhale o Chatham ka luna hoʻokele waiwai kai. "ʻO ke kākoʻo ʻana i nā papahana dredging he hoʻihoʻi waiwai nui."
I ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka papahana he 25 mau makahiki i hala aku nei, ʻo ka hana mua no ka Codfish - ka dredge lehulehu mua o ke kalana - aia ma Truro. Hoʻi mai ka Codfish kokoke i kēlā me kēia makahiki e wehe i ke kahawai. Ma kahi o ka Codfish, ka mea i hoʻohana ʻia i kēia manawa he mea hoʻoikaika, nona ke kalana i ka Sand Shifter a me ka Codfish II, i kūʻai ʻia ma 2019.
Ua hōʻike ʻia kahi noiʻi a ka Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, ka Fishermen's Alliance, a me UMass Boston's Urban Harbors Institute, ʻo ka dredging ka mea hopohopo nui loa ma nā awa āpau o ka mokuʻāina.
"He mea koʻikoʻi ka hana o ka dredge kalana e like me ka mālama ʻana i ko mākou mau alanui a me nā ala nui," wahi a Seth Rolbein, nāna i alakaʻi i ka hana hoʻolaha port no ka Fishermen's Alliance. "Ke hilinaʻi nei ke olakino waiwai o Cape i ka loaʻa ʻana o nā ala hilinaʻi i ke kai."
Puna: WickedLocal.com