Photo shows Ellicott Dragon Cutter Dredge
POMPANO BEACH — In some areas of the Hillsboro Inlet, intensive sand dredging by the Hillsboro Inlet District is taking navigational depths back to normal, deeper levels after nor’easter storms in March and April. But in emails and phone calls to TAPinto over the weekend, commercial mariners have indicated that shoaling – the buildup of sand – still remains an ongoing concern on the ocean side of the inlet’s navigational channel.
The sand accumulation has followed a period of persistent bad weather that’s kept the dredge from operating on a normal schedule because wave and tide conditions often made it unsafe for its crew to operate the vessel…