Dredging depends on permits, funds

With luck, $800,000 or so will be left over from some of the mega-dredging jobs the Army Corps of Engineers is undertaking this summer in storm ravaged areas like New Orleans allowing the Westport River to get scooped out this fall for the first time in 50 years.
That’s the price for the relatively tiny Westport River project and the key is for the town to have all of the required permits already approved, should fortune shine, Harbormaster Richard Earle told the Board of Selectmen last night.