New Buffalo Harbor

 
POST-DREDGING SOUNDINGS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
 
May 14, 2012 — Post-dredging soundings are now available for the New Buffalo Harbor Federal Navigation Channel.  Please keep in mind that conditions can and do change.  Always use cation when navigating.  This year's dredging was made possible by a grant from the Pokagon Fund and from contributions by harbor entities and the City of New Buffalo to the Emergency Harbor Dredging Fund.  (A map of pre- and post-dredging bathymetry is also available.)
 

EMERGENCY DREDGING SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE

April 23, 2011 — Emergency dredging work in New Buffalo Harbor's Federal Navigation Channel is substantially complete.  The City's dredging contractor, Donkersloot and Sons Marine Development, is finishing up well ahead of the May 1st permit deadline imposed by the State of Michigan as a fish spawning protection window.  This work was made possible by a grant from The Pokagon Fund.

The City supports the efforts of Congressman Fred Upton, Senator Carl Levin, and Senator Debbie Stabenow to get harbor maintenance funding approved by Congress (RAMP Act – Restore America's Maritime Promise.)
 
The City needed to preform emergency dredging of the Federal Navigation Channel due to Congress not funding their federal responsibility.  Please help us by contacting your representatives in Congress to voice your support for federal maintenance of federal maritime infrastructure.

Please see the News Archive's 2012 Dredging page for: (1) information on bidding for dredging, (2) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) soundings for the Federal Navigation Channel, (3) Congress considering funding for harbor maintenance, (4) the Pokagon Fund awarding the City a grant for dredging, and (5) USACE Shallow Draft Stakeholder Meeting which was attended by City representatives.

  
ABOUT NEW BUFFALO HARBOR

New Buffalo Harbor has more than 950 boat slips:  921 seasonal marina and condo association slips, 32 transient-public slips, 13 under construction for The Peninsula, and several up-river private slips.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Fact Sheet, Dredging Information, Project Map, and most recent Condition of Channel Survey are available on their New Buffalo Harbor Project Overview webpage.

New Buffalo Harbor – Facing south (image courtesy USACE).

Please place your mouse over each symbol to see its label, or use the key below:

The US Army Corps of Engineers created this image of our harbor using a 2005 aerial covered with a 1857 survey to show how much has changed.  Click here for a large version (WARNING - very large file size; it may take your browser awhile to fully load this pdf).