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EQUIPMENT

A DSC Dredge in Santa Cruz Harbor

Seabright that had served the harbor for 30 years labored CARB environmental standards.

to keep up, and frequent breakdowns only compounded Meanwhile, the Seabright is now for sale. That’s an im- the problem. Fortunately for the harbor members and pressive run for the DSC dredge; one which is probably visitors, a new dredge from DSC Dredge, LLC – the Twin not yet over.

Lakes – was scheduled for delivery in June.

The Seabright was at the end of its useful life. Enter Custom Deliveries a Specialty the Twin Lakes, commissioned from DSC in April 2015, DSC has always produced ‘spec’ units out of its Green- a custom-built, 16” x 16” dredge with a hull-mounted bush, MI, facility. Wetta adds, “We have also recently pump. It features a PLC operating system with color touch- added some ‘spec’ builds in our business model out of our screen controls, Global Positioning System (GPS), electro- other two facilities. The spec build dredges range from 8” proportional hydraulic circuits, high-capacity service water through 18” discharge sizes.” That said; the real strength of system and an inline direct marine-style transmission for DSC has always resided in the ability to give the customer dredge pump gear ratio reduction. A planetary winch pro- what they want, where they want it and delivering that vides the swing operation. A magnetic