Look now, because it may be decades before Newport residents, boaters and visitors will ever again see a major dredging operation in Newport Harbor.
That is the prognostication of Public Works Manager Chris Miller, who’s in charge of all harbor-related capital projects and improvements, and who is overseeing the dredging of the Congressionally mandated depths of the “federal channels with the harbor.”
Since the 1930s, Newport Harbor has been an authorized harbor under Congressional federal control, so the feds still have the responsibility of maintaining the harbor…