Stage Harbor Harbor entrance Dredging Completed 12/4/04
The first 3,500 feet went from the CODFISH to the booster pump in the dune on Hardings Beach. From there 8,500 feet of the plastic pipe went directly to the disposal/nourishment area. The project was a special challenge and completed the project which was called off last year due to equipment issues.
The Cape Cod Chronicle reported in fall 2003 that "For the second time in less than a year, an attempt is being made to pump dredged sand from the Stage Harbor entrance channel to the severely eroded shore west of Cockle Cove Beach. In January, the project was aborted after a leased pump needed to move the sand the two-mile distance failed. Barnstable County, which is doing the work using its dredge Codfish, has purchased a new pump that should do the trick, according to Chatham Coastal Resources Director Ted Keon. É " However, the project has run into a non-mechanical snag. Two of the four private property owners immediately to the west of the town beach at Cockle Cove, all of which were slated to receive dredged sand, have reportedly balked at signing a strolling easement in exchange for the sand. The project will go forward, Keon said, bypassing the two properties."
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Photo credits Tom Leach
