# Thimble Shoal Channel dredging started

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**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [December 28, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/thimble-shoal-channel-dredging-started/53687 "2019-12-28T18:19:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/thimble-shoal-channel-dredging-started/53687/1 "2019-12-28T18:19:25Z")

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Weeks has started on a contract to dredge the Thimble Shoal Channel to Hampton Roads. The channel will be widened and deepened from 50 to 56’.

> **[One “bite” of mud and sand at a time, Port of Virginia starts dredging...](https://www.pilotonline.com/business/shipyards/vp-nw-fzx19-port-dredge-project-20191228-gers4dr3bnh73egar5ktgg3cnu-story.html)**
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> On Sunday, Dec. 15, Weeks Marine started dredging the Thimble Shoal Channel near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the start of a massive, $350 million project to make the Port of Virginia one of the deepest and widest in the country.