Officials invite public input Wednesday on Searsport Harbor dredging

Officials invite public input Wednesday on Searsport Harbor dredging

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maine Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting on Wednesday to discuss plans to dredge part of Searsport Harbor. The dredging would remove silty sediment from a 500-foot-wide channel extending from the deep water in Penobscot Bay to Mack Point as well as a 1,500-foot-wide turning area near Mack Point’s piers, which are used mainly for receiving petroleum products and road salt and exporting lum…