Norfolk Dredging Company employee Rudy Parkin controls the company’s hydraulic dredge CHARLESTON as it continues to dredge a nearly five-mile-long, 600-foot-wide portion of the Elizabeth River’s navigation channel to a depth of 50 feet. The work will make the channel safer for the Navy’s aircraft carriers to travel between the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va., and the Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Va. ( Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood) 110722-A-OI229-024 by norfolkdistrict

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