Start Time for Night in Venice Parade Changed

Fearing the annual Night in Venice boat parade might end up high and dry in the undredged lagoons of Ocean City, event organizers announced Friday a change in the start time from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m. on July 28.

The event is a week away and includes a procession of decorated boats weaving in and out of Ocean City's bayfront lagoons on a path from the Ocean City-Longport Bridge to Tennessee Avenue. But many of the shallow lagoons are impassable to boat traffic even at a mid-tide, when the event had been originally scheduled.

High tide at the Ninth Street Bridge (near the middle of the parade route) will be at 4:49 p.m. on July 28, and low tide will be at 11:20 p.m. The parade typically lasts about an hour and a half.

A a week before the event last year.

Dredging work is scheduled to begin this summer on the bayfront between 15th and 34th streets, and the city is working to identify spoils sites to continue to dredge the rest of the island.

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