![]() Coast Guard operates a seasonal station here to ensure the safe navigation of the channel and responds to offshore emergencies. For instance, Gold Beach is a harbor of safe refuge that offers vessels shelter from heavy seas. Greg Speer, Oregon Coast project manager, recognizes that maintaining channel access is critical for several reasons. Sediment and rock have tumbled down the Rogue and stacked up here since the last major dredging event in 2018, constraining the port area and boat access. ![]() It’s important what the Army Corps does and the federal funding for that is important to maintain a certain percentage of money out of the Harbor Maintenance Fund to go into this.” “Recreationally and with a small commercial component, also, it’s important to the small community of about 2,500 people. “If it’s not maintained at least every five years, ingress, egress out of the Port of Gold Beach won’t occur,” said McNair. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the port could lose out on this recreation activity, according to Bill McNair, Port of Gold Beach president. The small community on the southern coast, where the Rogue River meets the Pacific Ocean, doesn’t have much, but it has a port that sees upwards of 35,000 visitors per year for jet boat tours and averages 75-100 fishing boats a day, according to port officials. ![]() A giant bucket – the size of a 1970s Volkswagen bus – swings through the air after it gobbles up 20 cubic yards of gravel blocking (shoaling-in) access to parts of the Port of Gold Beach, Ore.
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