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L
ike many boat clubs on the Hudson, the Philipse Manor Beach Club
marina had been struggling with how deal with too little water at low tide
– specifically:
• where to put the dredging material, and
• how to obtain the permits authorizing the dredging, and
• how to dredge at an affordable cost.
By the summer of 2015, the lack of depth in the Philipse Manor marina
had reached a crisis. Boats could not enter or leave the marina one to two
hours on either side of low tide. On occasion you could even see some
poor soul who’d misjudged time and tide, towing their boat by hand through
the deep mud to their slip. This reduced the opportunity for members to
use their boats and resulted in an increasingly mutinous membership.
This situation had been getting worse over the years, and boaters were
defecting to marinas with deeper slips.
The club finally bit the bullet and hired an experienced company to secure
a spot for the dredged material, navigate the state and federal permitting
process and manage the dredging. Today the marina’s draft is deep, the
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membership is happy, and the budget is intact. Here’s how it was done.
Fortunately, the PMBC had a local option for placing the dredged
material, the question the became how to get the material to that
site. One rule with dredged material, the cost increases the more the
material is handled.
The concept for the project was to meet two needs: to return the
PMBC marina to navigable depths at low tide and to use the dredged
material as fill on the former GM site. This would be accomplished use
a hydraulic dredge that can pump the removed sediments to where
they would be used.
The first task was to get the permission of the Village of Sleepy
Hollow to beneficially use the dredged material on the East parcel.
The Village agreed, provided the material was tested and met the
regulatory standards. A bathymetric survey of the marina and core
samples of the sediments were taken to test the sediments (Marine
Power Technologies, Somerville, NJ). Based on the results the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
gave approval to use the material as fill on the East parcel.
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photo: Tom Sobolik