Recently, Chongqing Engineering Director Eagle 7 and Changying 5 dredgers have completed positioning operations in Miaojiaoqi and Chayuqi, and fully started maintenance and dredging work, which was marking the full start of maintenance and dredging of the upper Yangtze River channel in 2021.
It is understood that this year, the Chongqing Engineering Bureau will carry out maintenance and dredging of 14 shoals along the 12 waterways from Yibin to Chongqing on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The Channel Maintenance Company of Chongqing Engineering Bureau prepared early and actively prepared for the maintenance and smoothness of the 2020-2021 dry season. At present, the company has dispatched two dredging fleets(including silt curtains and dredgers) to carry out dredging construction at Miaojiaoqi and Chayuqi respectively.
After communicating with the Yangtze River Yibin Channel Bureau and combining the actual navigable conditions of the upper Yangtze River main channel, the company’s Chuangyang 17 fleet was also dispatched to the Shuanjiangqi Shoal of the Lizhuang Channel, and the maintenance and dredging of this beach section will be carried out.
