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SHALLOW WATER AT WAITING PONTOON |
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Message from Gareth Peaston (Commodore)
Club members and others have recently reported grounding in the area of the Weymouth Town Bridge waiting pontoon. I met today (29.02.08) with our newly appointed Harbour-master Commander Bill Chambers and reported the problem. Commander Chambers was kind enough to show me his latest hydrographic survey which indeed did show depths as low as 1.5 metres above datum in the area of the waiting pontoon. I advised that the harbour has many yachts with drafts deeper than this regularly transiting the bridge and who would normally expect to use the waiting pontoon.
Commander Chambers noted the above and advised that a dredger was expected in April to dredge a shallow patch (for commercial shipping) in the harbour entrance and that he see if he could arrange for the waiting pontoon area to be dredged at the same time.
I also reported a complaint that a Commercial Fishing vessel had been berthed on the waiting pontoon for a number of weeks considerably reducing the area available to those awaiting a bridge transit.
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