Efforts were made in 1838 to dredge the canal, but the passage did not remain navigable for any vessels except those with a shallow draft.

For a week a year, people would down their tools or keyboards and pick up litter, dredge canals, become reading mentors or help the elderly.

What better way to remove his party's greedy, scary, judgmental and uncaring branding than make his footsoldiers dredge canals or coach football teams?

Developers dredged canals and used the spoil to provide fill material for houses.

That project involved dredging a canal to reconnect the lagoon to the sea, and deepening the land bar.