Norwalk Advocate
The design of a new launching ramp at a heavily used downtown marina could injure boaters trying to get their vessels in and out of the water and damage their vessels, boaters say.
Each year, hundreds of residents load their boats onto a trailer, hook the trailer to the back of their cars and back down the ramp at Grass Island's public marina to launch their vessels into Greenwich Harbor. Town officials this month paid about $165,000 to replace an old, damaged concrete ramp with a new one. But instead of a smooth surface, the new concrete ramp is designed with deep horizontal grooves set a few inches apart....
... had to do it, because of the amount of strength it had to have.' The firm's vice president, Aubrey Mead Jr. of Cos Cob, said the grooves make the ramp more flexible as well as more durable. The gaps in the ramp are designed to fill in naturally, ...
Original Norwalk Advocate article: Boaters: Launch ramp is a hazard
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