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Monday, 26 January 2009 13:33 |
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In May 2009, Port Canaveral will welcome the first of its new homeported megaships — Royal Caribbean International’s 3,600-passenger Freedom of the Seas. As part of the process of rolling out the red carpet for her arrival, a $7.8 million Port Authority project is under way to modify the entrance to the West Turning Basin. The goal is to smooth the navigational path for the Freedom and her later arriving mega-cousins by cutting off a projecting corner of land at the entrance to the basin.
Big Job Calls For Big Equipment…
The project requires two steps. In the first step, land-based excavators are used to remove material from the corner cut-off site down to an elevation of -13 feet MLLW. Upland containment facilities are constructed to contain and process the removed soil for re-utilization in future projects. Once the materials suitable for future beneficial upland use have been transferred, a clamshell dredge and dump barges take over, removing the remainder of the dredge prism to a depth of -36 feet MLLW and depositing materials both off-shore for disposal and near-shore for beach re-nourishment.
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