The dredging of the Eastpoint and two-mile channels should begin soon, likely by the middle of next month.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has installed permit boards at locations in Eastpoint, including Indian Creek and at the Eastpoint waterfront.
Work is expected to begin in mid-September.
The dredging will be done on the Eastpoint Channel first, and then the crews will begin dredging the two-mile channel in Apalachicola.
Each channel should take about 2 months to complete.
The 2 projects are decades in the making.
The Eastpoint Channel hasn't been dredged since 1985 and is now so shallow most boats can't even use it except on high tide.
That channel will be dredged from just west of the Eastpoint boat ramp to Barbers Seafood on the East.
The two-mile channel will be dredged from the mouth of the Apalachicola River to the Olin B. Ward waterfront park.
Both projects together will cost 6 million dollars.
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