Mathews supervisor Mike Walls gave the Gazette-Journal a boat ride out to Hole in the Wall on Friday to observe the dredging project that’s underway in the channel. A large rig is set up at the start of the channel in the Chesapeake Bay, just beyond where the bay meets Milford Haven, and it’s moving sand from the sea bed through large pipes to a second, larger rig, about a mile away. From there, the sand goes through additional pipes to Haven Beach, where mounds of it have been placed along the shoreline. Equipment is set up at the beach to move the sand into place. Walls said the project “has been one long, drawn-out process.” He recalled learning from a Gazette-Journal article in 2016 that the Coast Guard planned to remove the lighted markers at Hole in the Wall because the channel was so shallow that the large Coast Guard tenders could no longer perform maintenance on the markers. A year later, he went out to the channel, and the markers were being cut down. After that, the hard wo...