The contractor will not remove rocks, she said, just silt and sand.Ĭommissioner Wayne Dukes expressed concern that once the river is cleared of sand and running more swiftly, silt from the private canals might wash into the river again. In some places, the river already is deeper than 5 feet, Hagberg said, so those areas won’t be dredged. Workers will dredge to a depth of 5 feet below the mean low-water line. The dredging area stretches for 1.6 miles of the river. The water management district cannot dredge those canals, but the contractor needs access so it can dredge where the canals meet the river channel, she explained. The county’s license will allow dredging equipment in the nearby, county-owned residential canals. There, it will be drained, stockpiled and staged for eventual removal, according to Hagberg. The contractor will transport sediment from the dredge to a site the county owns near Rogers Park on Cofer Road.
The early take-out area would cut that 5-mile trip in half. Currently, kayakers launch at the state park and end their journey at Rogers Park.
He said he hoped that might encourage the Weeki Wachee Springs State Park to push for a fast opening of the new early kayak takeout area within the park boundary. "Unfortunately, it’s going to have some impacts,'' said Commissioner John Allocco.
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