Pamlico Sound ferry routes delay summer schedule due to shoaling - The Coastland Times

Pamlico Sound ferry routes delay summer schedule due to shoaling - The Coastland Times

Army Corps of Engineers scheduled to begin Bigfoot Slough dredging in late May   The North Carolina Ferry Division’s Pamlico Sound routes between Swan Quarter, Cedar Island and Ocracoke will temporarily remain on their spring schedules until completion of an upcoming dredging project in the Bigfoot Slough ferry channel near Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. The routes were scheduled to move to their expanded summer schedules May 20. “Our boats are …

Dredging near Ocracoke keeps ferries on spring schedule

Clouds fill the sky as a ferry departs from the Ocracoke terminal on Silver Lake. Photo: Jennifer Allen Pamlico Sound ferry routes linking the two mainland terminals and Ocracoke Village will remain on its spring schedule of six daily departures until a dredging project planned for the end of this month is complete. North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division officials said Tuesday that the Army Corps of Engineers had scheduled …

Pamlico Sound ferry routes delay summer schedule due to shoaling

The N.C. Ferry Division’s Pamlico Sound routes between Swan Quarter, Cedar Island and Ocracoke will temporarily remain on their spring schedules until completion of an upcoming dredging project in the Bigfoot Slough ferry channel near Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. The routes were scheduled to move to their expanded summer schedules May 20.“Our boats are ready, our crews are ready, but the Bigfoot Slough channel is too shallow and narrow to oper…