Irishtown Bend work to barge in on river traffic

Before there can be an Irishtown Bend Park, there has to be a stable hillside above
the Irishtown Bend in the Cuyahoga River. Crews have been working since late-
summer 2023 to re-grade the hillside with a more gentle slope. Soon, a steel
bulkhead along the water’s edge will be installed from a barge partially
blocking the navigable waterway almost daily for more than a year
(Jordan Abbott). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

In the coming weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard is expected to establish safety zone requirements for the barge-based installation of steel-wall bulkheads along the edge of the Cuyahoga River at Irishtown Bend in Cleveland. Those requirements will likely result in the daily closure of the river channel to commercial shipping for hours at a time but leisure and recreational boating is not expected to be significantly affected.

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