However, when the marina channel was dredged by the town of Lansing in the early 1990's, heavy machinery uprooted several bank-retaining trees. This, combined with the floods of the early 1990's, greatly accelerated the erosion. Note that the aerial photos were all taken when the water was near its summertime high, and thus are intercomparable and representative of summer landforms at the site. In addition to the loss of land, there are other problems which will be addressed by this plan. The erosion south of the channel has made the channel boundaries ambiguous.
Boaters frequently run aground, improperly leaving the channel.
We propose to build a rip-rap wall, south of the channel, high enough to break the SW waves and visibly demark the channel boundaries. This also should stop sediment entering the basin from the south. It may also reduce erosion south of the channel by absorbing some of the waves currently reflecting off the hard steel jetty wall. We propose to use the park's dredgings to reclaim the land lost since 1991. The area to be reclaimed is 0.14 acres or 6100 square feet or 680 square yards.