From Today’s Pioneer Press.
St. Croix River navigation channel scheduled to move Thursday
By Mary Divine | [email protected]
June 22, 2016
Boaters navigating the construction site of the new St. Croix River bridge south of Stillwater will be boating closer to the middle of the river later this week.
On Thursday, crews will move the navigation buoys from between Piers 10 and 11 to between Piers 9 and 10.
The channel needs to shift to make room for the barges that will be transporting and holding the concrete bridge-deck segments for Pier 11.
“Now that Pier 9 is finished, there isn’t as much equipment that is needed there,” said Kristin Calliguri, spokeswoman for the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Once Pier 8, the pier closest to the Minnesota shoreline, is completed, the channel will switch again — to between Piers 8 and 9 sometime in mid-July. That change is expected to last through the end of the boating season, Calliguri said.
Boaters are asked to stay between the red and green buoys that mark the navigation channel, keep their distance from barges and equipment, and observe the no-wake worker-safety zone.
-J.