A dredging specialist for the Walla Walla Engineer District has actually finished channel-deepening dredging at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers near Clarkston, Wash., and Lewiston, Idaho. The task dug up about 220,000 cubic backyards of product, all of which was dealt with at an in-water place near Bishop Bar (north coast), situated at Mile 118 on the lower Snake River in Washington. It was the very first time the channel had actually been dug up because 2015. The digging up takes the channel to its authorized depth of 14 feet.
The specialist, HME Construction Inc., performed the $5.8 million agreement for the dredging start January 4 and ended up Feb. 25, well prior to the closing due date of March 1. The dates were selected to lessen any influence on moving steelhead salmon, which are not active at this time of year.
