Great Lakes Dredging and Drydock company has been awarded the deepening project contract that will commence this Sunday or Monday.
The dredge Illinois will be setting up over the next few days and begin dredging operations on Eagle Point Range just inbound of the Schuylkill River. They will be working between the Navy Yard and Hog Island over the next month. The dredge will have 2000 feet of floating pipeline secured to a fixed pipeline running to National Park disposal area in NJ. The dredge will provide an opening of "about 400 ft"  between itself and 5 anchor  buoys on the PA side. They are requesting about one hour notice for passage and can give a larger opening with at least 2 hours notice. The cell phone number on the dredge is (443)831-4677 and will be monitored once the dredge is working. They can also be reached on Ch 13 and 16.

Upon completion of this area (one month) the dredge will be replaced with another from Great Lakes. This will work through January 2013 in the area between Tinicum Island and Horseshoe Range. Details will follow for this operation as they are still being worked out.

Please review that attached file for more details.