Onlookers pull over to watch as the dredge is lifted from the truck via crane and transitions into the water Wednesday. “I think it’s a good deal,” Daryl Newman, left, said of the dredge arriving. “I mean, I hope it really improves the lake. It should.” – Sarah Kocher/Albert Lea Tribune

The largest portion of the dredge was craned into Edgewater Bay on Wednesday at the boat landing on the north side of the bay. – Sarah Kocher/Albert Lea Tribune