He has brought the concept around to many business folks in town already and the response has been encouraging. Smith is working with a group of like-minded fishermen to get the $565,000 dredge before town meeting this May. “It’s smaller than the county dredge … more suited for the Nauset and Pleasant Bay estuaries and also able to work in Rock Harbor,” Smith said, adding that, unlike the county dredge, which needs to travel by water, the Endicott can be trailered. “The nice thing about this is the portability of it.”
While looking up information on the Barnstable County dredge he came across what he thinks is the answer. The town can buy its own dredge - the Ellicott 370 HP Portable Cutterhead dredge, to be exact. ORLEANS - While watching Nauset Estuary fill with sand, hurting water quality and livelihoods, fisherman Stephen Smith has seen communities across the Cape pay big money for the same sediment that is plaguing Town Cove.
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