Know what the “D” on the stack is for?
The Dutra Group . . . a California company with a vessel bearing quite the sixth boro name.
Click here for particulars on the dredger.
Until two years ago, it belonged to Bean.
Surely . .. she’s an industrial and industrious vessel.
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March 25, 2014 at 6:21 pm
o docker
A controversial name that needs no introduction in the Sacramento valley.
From the mid-1800’s to the mid-1900’s their dredges turned hundreds of square miles of ‘tule swamp’ marshlands into navigable waterways between San Francisco Bay and Sacramento, creating – depending on who’s doing the recounting – either the greatest economic boon in the central valley’s history or the worst ecological disaster.
March 25, 2014 at 8:53 pm
tugster
modifying any environment always has its fans and detractors.