Go behind the scenes of the Oregon Dredge with Captain Mark Stilwell in this Oregon Business feature. Stilwell leads our crew working to maintain the Columbia River navigation channel to 43 feet, allowing larger ships to carry more cargo. He started as a deckhand 36 years ago! Photo above: Dredge Captain Mark Stilwell is featured in…
The Port owns and operates the Dredge Oregon, a non-propelled cutter suction dredge used to maintain the Columbia River navigation channel to 43 feet. A well-maintained channel allows larger ships to carry more cargo, supporting trade and jobs in our region. For the past four months, the crew has been working on channel maintenance to…
The site safety and health officer of the Dredge Oregon captured this video riding out the weekend’s heavy storms a few miles upriver from Tongue Point in Astoria on the Columbia River. When at work maintaining the navigation channel, the Dredge framework includes thousands of feet of floating pipe that is simply too large to…
Staff photographer, Jerry McCarthy snapped this photo in July as the Dredge Oregon and its tug W.L. Williams got underway from their Swan Island base enroute to a site near the mouth of the Cowlitz River in the Columbia River. File this under “things you might not know about the Dredge Oregon” – it cannot propel itself*. When…
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