This new 60-by-15-foot barge was delivered to Grand Lake St. Marys State Park on Friday to replace the old 1950s barge that developed a hole in it last year. The $214,272 barge will transport an excavator and 50-ton crane used for dredging, stump removal and shoreline construction.
Buoyed by recent donations totaling $75,000 from two area agricultural businesses, the Grand Lake Restoration Initiative has collected almost $450,000 to test sediment removal technology in the lake. [
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