Perdido Pass to be dredged - al.com

Perdido Pass to be dredged - al.com: "ORANGE BEACH — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers aims to begin dredging the navigation channels through Perdido Pass within a month, likely removing more than 400,000 cubic square yards of sand that has choked boating lanes in recent years.

City officials had hoped to use that sand — equal to about 25,000 dump truckloads — to bolster portions of its manmade beach that were eroded by this past summer's storms. It's estimated that hurricanes Ike and Gustav, though they merely passed by in the Gulf of Mexico, swept away about 750,000 cubic yards of sand from Orange Beach's shoreline, Coastal Resource Manager Phillip West said."