![]() Goulet estimates that it will take about 20% longer than planned to finish dredging the stretch of river from Providence Place mall to the new pedestrian bridge. A project that was supposed to be completed by Christmas is now set to continue into January after workers take a holiday break that started Friday. ![]() “Jeans are the worst,” said Dan Goulet, dredging coordinator with the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council.Īll the delays are adding up. can disentangle bags and other junk from the cutterhead that churns through the river bottom to suck up sand and silt. It’s been so bad in some areas that the dredge has had to shut down every five or 10 minutes so the team from contractor J.F. With the project about two-thirds done, crews have filled one 30-yard dumpster already and are getting close to the top of a second. PROVIDENCE - The catalog of garbage pulled from the water during the dredging of the Woonasquatucket and Providence rivers includes 13 electric scooters, so many bicycles that workers have lost count, innumerable plastic bags, bottles and cups, and an unusual amount of old clothing and shoes.
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