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Port authority and property owner seek harbor‑line relocation in New Bedford to repair bulkhead and reactivate waterfront site
Summary
New Bedford Port Authority, a property owner and an investor testified in favor of House Bill 4109 to relocate a harbor line by roughly 10 feet at a 7.24‑acre site so a failing bulkhead can be replaced and the waterfront parcel reactivated for water‑dependent industry, which proponents said would support jobs and further port modernization.
Gordon Carr, executive director of the New Bedford Port Authority, told the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources that House Bill 4109 requests a modest harbor‑line relocation seaward of existing deteriorated bulkhead at a 7.24‑acre parcel within the designated port area so that a new bulkhead can be installed.
Carr described the site’s recent history: a 2015 tenant, Blue Harvest, pursued commercial fishing and processing operations, later sold…
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