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Committee urges council to pursue funding and study for canal dredging after shoaling and navigation concerns
Summary
Committee members highlighted extensive shoaling at the Buccaneer Lagoon entrance and other channels, called for temporary markers and public notices, and directed the chair to ask town council to pursue environmental study funding and multi‑phase dredging grants; staff estimated a study would cost roughly a couple $100,000.
Committee members raised repeated safety concerns about shoaling at the entrance to Buccaneer Lagoon and nearby channels and asked staff to coordinate warnings and pursue longer-term dredging solutions.
John Musley Nash, who assembled a report on the entrance, described areas where low tide readings show depths as shallow as about 1 foot and said NOAA charts…
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