St. Lucie Inlet – Click for Chartview

St. Lucie Inlet intersects the Waterway and the eastern genesis of the Okeechobee Waterway near Stuart, FL at AICW Statute Mile 987. The dredging described below refers to work in the Inlet channel, not the Waterway.

FLORIDA-AICW-PALM SHORES TO WEST PALM BEACH-ST LUCIE INLET: Dredge Operations, (UPDATE: Completion Date).Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting Co., LLC will continue dredge operations with Dredge `CAPTAIN AJ FOURNIER’ in the channel at St Lucie Inlet and the adjoining impoundment basin to their authorized depths. Material will be loaded into hopper barges and transported approximately 5.5 miles south of the inlet, down the Intracoastal Waterway, to Pecks Lake, where the barge unloader `Bean 20’ will be moored. The dredge material will then be pumped onto the beach through a submerged pipeline. The dredging activities will extend approximately 300 feet eastward and approximately 2,300′ westward from the entrance of the jetties. The dredge will be supported by the crew launch/survey vessel `Cape Elizabeth’. All vessels will monitor VHF channels 13, 16, and use 74 as the working channel. The dredge will operate 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Operations will wrap up on or about 01 May 2014. Mariners are urged to transit at their slowest safe speed to minimize wake and proceed with caution after passing arrangements have been made.Temporarily Relocated due to Dredge Operations: Ref LNM 44/13St Lucie Inlet B5 (LLNR 10125 relocated to position 27-09-05.194N/080-09-08.576W (27°9.0864N / 080°9.1428W, 27.15144 / -80.15238)St Lucie Inlet B7 (LLNR 10135) relocated to position 27-09-58.691N/080-09-33.568W (27°9.978N / 080°9.5592W, 27.1663 / -80.15932)Temporarily Discontinued due to Dredge Operations: Ref LNM 03/14Chart 11472 LNM: 08/14Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of St. Lucie Inlet