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Thursday, January 26, 2006
* Georgia has no law that compels either boat owners or state agencies to remove derelict vessels. Boats that block the navigable part of a channel are the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers or the U.S. Coast Guard, which sometimes moves them only as far as shallower water or marsh
* The Chatham County Health Department has placed the Tybee Strand area of Tybee Island under advisory. Routine water quality tests from samples taken Tuesday show the beach water in this area contains a high level of enterococci bacteria
- Savannah Morning News, 1-25-06
* Mere months after the completion of an emergency dredging project to widen the opening to Grand Lagoon, the channel again is rapidly closing
- Panama City News Herald, 1-26-06
* Luncheon serves as the public rollout for an agreement which could lead to a new deepwater port facility in Port St. Joe in the coming years
- Port St. Joe Star, 1-25-06
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