Great care must be taken when approaching the dredge in this notoriously narrow and shallow stretch of Waterway.

GEORGIA – INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY – ST SIMONS SOUND TO TOLOMATO RIVER – CUMBERLAND RIVER: Dredging.

Cottrell Contracting Corporation of Chesapeake, Virginia advises that the dredge ROCKBRIDGE will be conducting dredging operations on Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Cumberland Dividings, Camden County, GA. The work will be ongoing from February 15, 2024, through May 2, 2024, from  Cumberland River Daybeacon 57 (LLNR 37590 [30°51.8633N / 081°29.7877W, 30.864388 / -81.496462]) to Cumberland Sound Daybeacon 76 (LLNR 37685 [30°47.6078N / 081°29.5247W, 30.793464 / -81.492079]). Additionally, Overboard Disposal will be taking  place in the vicinity of Cabin Bluff. The pipeline will extend to the “new island” from the dredge upriver to Cumberland Daybeacon 47 (LLNR 37545 [30°53.5048N / 081°30.4898W, 30.891747 / -81.508163]). All mariners are requested to stay clear of the dredge, pipelines, barge, derricks, and operating wires about the dredge. All operators should be aware that the dredge and pontoon lines are held in place by cables, which are attached to anchors some distance from the dredge and pontoons. Buoys are attached to the anchors so that they may be moved as the dredge moves. Submerged lines should be avoided. Mariners are requested
to exercise extreme caution when approaching, passing, and leaving the dredging plant. The dredge Rockbridge monitors VHF-FM channels 13 and 16. Mariners are cautioned to strictly comply with the Inland Rules of the Road when approaching, passing and leaving the area of operations, and remain a safe distance away from the dredge, booster, buoys, cables, pipeline, barges, derricks, wires and related equipment. Owners and lessees of fishnets, crabpots and other structures that may be in the vicinity and that may hinder the free navigation of attending
vessels and equipment must remove these from the area where tugs, tenderboats and other attendant equipment will be navigating. Dredging operations will be conducted twenty-four hours a day seven, days a week, all fishnets, crabpots and structures in the general area must be removed prior to commencement of any wqrk, a slow NO WAKE speed is requested of transiting vessels. All vessels are requested to contact the dredge prior to passing.