. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. "A barge can carry 4,000 tons in one trip, while a truck can only carry 25 tons," Bennett says. "Sure the truck might get there faster, but think of how many trips it would take to deliver the same ; Bennett says Texasgulf has found the waterway to be a cheap and easy means of bringing in large quantities of raw materials and shipping out the company's finished product. Texasgulf has purchased it's own barges and tugboats for transportation of materials, he says. Commercial use
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. "A barge can carry 4,000 tons in one trip, while a truck can only carry 25 tons," Bennett says. "Sure the truck might get there faster, but think of how many trips it would take to deliver the same ; Bennett says Texasgulf has found the waterway to be a cheap and easy means of bringing in large quantities of raw materials and shipping out the company's finished product. Texasgulf has purchased it's own barges and tugboats for transportation of materials, he says. Commercial use aside, the in- tracoastal waterway is probably best known as the yachtman's highway. Each year about 2,000 yachts, sailboats and cruisers travel along the waterway in late fall and early spring as boaters move south for the winter and then north for the summer. Recreational and commercial fisher- men also use the waterway to move from one fishing ground to another. To keep the waterway navigable for both commercial and recreational use, the Corps of Engineers must constant- ly dredge parts of the waterway to maintain its designated 12-foot depth and 90-foot width. Jim Wells, an engineer for the corps, says two to three million cubic yards of material are removed from the waterway each year. He says the corps' heaviest maintenance job is in Bruns- wick County, where the waterway is subject to tidal influence. The Corps of Engineers also does a lot of main- tenance work on the waterway's land cuts to the Alligator and Pungo Rivers, Wells says. Officials of some companies using the waterway complain that it is not adequately maintained. Dave Hewitt, the Corps of Engineers' public infor- mation officer in Wilmington, ac- knowledges that there is sometimes a problem with maintenance. "We dredge areas where there is the greatest need first," he says. "But we always have a ; The Corps of Engineers uses survey boats to determine which areas need dredging and
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