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Winnapaug pond dredging12/24/2023 ![]() Town officials have discussed paying the loan off over 10 years. In November, Westerly voters approved borrowing up to $1 million from the state Infrastructure Bank to pay the town’s share of the work. The Army Corps has assigned a $2.7 million price tag to the project, with $2.4 million in federal funds and $300,000 in town funding being used to pay for it. Army Corps of Engineers’ New England District. Army Corps of Engineers and the sponsor (state Coastal Resources Management Council) was to hold off on the project this year and re-advertise the project next year in hopes of more competitive bids,” said Bryan Purtell, spokesman for the U.S. “I’m told that since the bids that came in for the construction of the project were way above the government estimate for the project, the decision on a path forward between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state Coastal Resources Management Council decided to postpone the work with the hope of performing it next fall.ĬRMC is serving as the state sponsoring agency for the project, which town officials have worked on for years. The dredge portion of the project had been scheduled to occur during the current dredge window, which started on Oct. ![]() WESTERLY - Work on an eelgrass restoration project that is expected to include the removal of 70,800 cubic yards of sand from the bottom of Winnapaug Pond has been delayed again after contractors submitted bids that exceeded cost estimates. ![]()
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