The channels will be dredged to a depth of 51 feet plus one to two feet of allowable overdepth. The regular maintenance dredging will take place in six federal channels in Maryland waters including the Curtis Bay, Craighill Entrance, Craighill Channel, Craighill Angle, Craighill Upper Range, and Cutoff Angle segments. It began Monday and will take until early spring 2019. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, is expected to move a total of 2 million cubic yards of material out of the shipping channels. The dredging effort, which is being managed by the U.S. A big, mucky project got underway this week: six different shipping channels leading to the Port of Baltimore are being dredged to allow ships to safely come and go.
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