Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-08-08
WOULD DREDGE BAR Meeting A SUCCESS
II. NJ. DELAN7Y HAS A PLAN FOR
HARBOR IMPROVEMENT.
Would Employ Deep Sea Dredge to
Cut Channel Through the Bar and
Assist Water in Its Work. plan
Has Been Verv Successful Else
where.

Declaring that the government
should assist nature in the deepen
ing of the water on the Grays Harbor
bar in other ways, besides the con-
struction of the jetty, Hugh M. De-
ianty, manager OF the Grays Harbor
Stevedore company, has a plan which
he believes would greatly assist in
securing a sufficient depth of water
without the expenditure of great
sum of money. His scheme is the
use of a deep sea dredge on the bar
thereby cutting q channel which the
waters of the harbOr and the tides,
in their ebb and flow, would soon
deepen, with the aid OF the jetties,
to the required depth and would keep
the channel in that condition indefi-
nitely.
Would Help the Jetties
THE building of the jetties will in
time do the work, in all probability
said Mr.. Delanty, but the employ
ment of the services of d deep sea
adredge would greatly hasten this out
come, l believe. While the jetties
are built with the idea of confining
the flow of water into smaller space
and thus cause them to deepen the
channel by their flow, and while this
result will be accomplished, it will
take years to bring it about. There is
at the outer end of the jetties, hard
hump of sand. which comprises the
bar proper Here the water is shall
lowest and it is this bar, or hump,
which causes all the trouble. Now,
my idea is that, if a deep sea dredge
is secured, the vessel could be used
to dredge a channel through this
hump for not more than 1000 feet
This channel should be between 800
and 400 feet in width and properly
buoyed. / believe that, with this
work done, the water, in it's ebb and
flow, would do the rest. 1t would
provide start for the water to do
it's own work and would in my judG-
ment, deepen the channel sufficiently
for all purposes and keep it that way.
| know that this plan has been work
ed successfully at other places and
don't see why it wouldn't work here.
There is a deep sea dredge on the
Columbia river where the oar mas
been deepened exactly in accordance
with the plan l have suggested, al
though conditions there are not so Ia
yOrable as here. The government
has spent an immense sum at the
mouth of the Columbia and is still
at it, and much good has been accom-
plished. l believe that the matter
should be taken up and united ef'
fort made to secure government ap-
preparation for the work
Bar Shoals in Summer
It is a fact, according to shipping
men, that the bar shoals during every
summer and deepens again in VIM
ter. This is caused by reason OF the
fact that there is a greater How OF
water during the rainy season. "A
heavy sou'wester will also do the
work. In the summer months, the
prevailing winds are from the north
west and this results in gradually
filling up the channel or causing the
bar to shift; but a few weeks OF hlgh
tides and southwest winds Will re-
move all vestige Of it.
1t is stated that this has been the
case this season to even greater eA-
tent than formerly, and at the pres
ent time the bar is considerably
shallower than during the winter, not
withstanding the north side jetty. IN
order to prevent the northwest winds
from affecting the bar shipping men
claim that the north side jetty must
be considerably longer than the south
side improvement and, when it is
finally completed according to plans,
it will prevent the changing OF the
channel during the summer.