NAVIGATIONAL AIDS AND OBSTACLES
Providence River Channel Lighted Buoy 15 Sinking
Block Island Wind Farm WTG-3 Fog Horn Sound Signal Inoperable
NEBW Daybeacon no longer operable
Bristol Harbor Daybeacon 6A Missing
Bristol Harbor East Channel Buoy 5 Off Station and a hazard to navigation
Bristol Harbor West Channel Buoy 1 Off Station
Quonset Point Terminal Approach Buoy EB-B Missing
Pawcatuck River Channel Daybeacon Missing
URI Coastal Monitoring Lighted Research Buoy Discontunued
Pawcatuck River Channel Daybeacon 23 Discontinued while dredging
CHART CORRECTIONS
Newport Harbor Light- correction on Narragansett Bay Charts 13221 and 13223 from
41.29.36.034N and 071-19-37.812W to 41-29-25.970N and 071-19-37.416W
ADVANCED AND GENERAL NOTICES
Regent Craft Inc. will be testing a wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) craft in the West Passage of
Narragansett Bay through approximately May 31, 2023
Naval Undersea Warfare Center will be conducting tests using surface and subsurface devices
north and east of Gould Island from September 2021 to December 2022.
Dyer Island- partially submerged vessel in position 41-34-54.78N and 071-18-6.48W
SHOALING AREAS
Greenwich Bay and Warwick Cove-shoaling from the west restricting channel width to 90’
between Warwick Cove Buoy 3 and Warwick Cove Buoy 7.
Block Island Sound and Pt. Judith Pone- shoaling between Pt. Judith Pond Channel Buoy 2 and
Pt. Judith Pond Channel Buoy 4. Shoaling is encroaching from the East Side of the Channel to
the west.
Mt. Hope Bay- shoaling reported in the Kickamuit River in the vicinity of Kickamuit Buoy 2.
DREDGING
Pt. Judith Pond- from November 30,2022 to January 31, 2023. Refer to VHF-FM Channel 13.
SEAWALL REPAIR
Providence River seawall repair located 41-48-00.3N and 971-23-31.3W from March 14, 2022 to
April 1, 2023. Refer to Channels 13 and 16 during working hours.
