gwbh Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Hi everyone, I recently read in my local newspaper the Savannah River is going to be dredged soon. It gave a vague description on a dredge spoil location, "the other side of the river in South Carolina". Does anyone have any clue as to where this location will actually be?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Seems like you could find out who is doing the dredging and call for information. Since it's being dumped in South Carolina, I'd start with whatever agency manages the Savannah River for SC and work from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Dredge spoils areas are annotated on NOAA navigation charts. You can download png versions for the Savannah River here... http://xpda.com/nauticalcharts/ news can be found here http://www.dredgingtoday.com/?s=savannah I think USACE has juresdiction over or manages most naviagable waterways in the US. (They have more water craft than the US Navy!) USACE usually publishes extensive reviewes, bidding information and volumes of other material on any particular dredging activity the internet. I did notice much of the area in the Savannah river shart I looked at is restricted by the Department of Energy. Didn't they loose a hydrogen bomb around there somewhere? Darrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Dredge spoils areas are annotated on NOAA navigation charts. You can download png versions for the Savannah River here... http://xpda.com/nauticalcharts/ news can be found here http://www.dredgingt...com/?s=savannah I think USACE has juresdiction over or manages most naviagable waterways in the US. (They have more water craft than the US Navy!) USACE usually publishes extensive reviewes, bidding information and volumes of other material on any particular dredging activity the internet. I did notice much of the area in the Savannah river shart I looked at is restricted by the Department of Energy. Didn't they loose a hydrogen bomb around there somewhere? Darrow Well, that would make the dredging site easy to find. I'd look forward to searching the spoils here in Maine though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 ... much of the area in the Savannah river shart I looked at is restricted by the Department of Energy. Didn't they loose a hydrogen bomb around there somewhere? Darrow Yes they did, and they have never found it. Warsaw Sound was cordoned off during the search but I'm not sure where that is... Here's an article about the "mishap": http://www.alternet.org/environment/140060/the_case_of_the_missing_h-bomb%3A_the_pentagon_has_lost_the_mother_of_all_weapons/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwbh Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 Luckily the Wassaw sound is a few miles south of the Sav. river...but yea, I always heard stories of that bomb growing up, Kinda crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 (edited) What's crazy is the Air Force treating the dang thing as a Public Relations problem. Seems to me they would have kept looking until they found it. I mean, come one, "Oh, we lost a Big Boy... please send us a replacement...." Yesh. Edited December 18, 2011 by Lloyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwbh Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 (edited) your right, there's really no excuse, the technology is easily available to find it. Edited December 18, 2011 by gwbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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