About $10.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus money will go to dredge parts of Mission Bay around Quivira Basin that have slowly been filling with silt, according to a report heard by members of the Mission Bay Park Committee on May 5. Other improvements driven by the federal economic stimulus money include fixing deteriorating parts of the Mission Bay Channel jetty. “There’s been a host of accidents but nothing that major,” said Bill Harris, a spokesman for Mayor Jerry Sanders’ office. There have been about 150 boating accidents over the last four years near Bonita Cove because of silting and jetty rock erosion. The erosion has caused narrowing of the channel and shallower basins, according to a statement from the mayor’s office. Harris said work is slated to start by early fall. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for maintaining navigable channels, which includes Mission Bay, Harris said. The channel hasn’t been dredged since 1986, according to city officials. In other news from the Mission Bay Park Committee: • Sewage interceptor system Replacement of the deteriorating Mission Bay sewage interceptor system will begin again over the summer, said Jeff Soriano, project manager for the city’s Engineering and Capital Projects Department. About 22 stations around the bay along Mission Beach and near Tecolote Shores are slated for replacement of deteriorating access hatches. “Once we get a contractor on board we’ll be coming back to the [Mission Bay Park] Committee and present more details of the proj-ect,” Soriano said. The contract will go through the city’s bidding process in about two months, Soriano said. The Mission Bay sewage interceptor system redirects stormwater runoff to the sewer system in Point Loma instead of to the beach. • New cell towers A Verizon Wireless representative presented plans to install about six antennas to be put up on light standards along Quivira Road, according to Stacy McKenzie, Mission Bay Park District manager. The park committee voted to forward the antennae project to the city for approval. • Charity event complaints Mission Bay Park Committee members reported a number of complaints stemming from the Stay Classy charity event May 2 at Mission Bay Park. Neighbors reported a number of noise complaints, a number of vehicles parked on the grass and turf and uncovered power cords, according to McKenzie’s report. • Beach crime report The Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and La Jolla Shores areas have seen a 16 percent decrease in crime in January, February and March as compared with the same time last year, according to San Diego Police Department Northern Division Capt. Shelley Zimmerman. Police officials said they have recently focused on traffic enforcement to deter criminal activity. The number of citations police doled out reflects a 140 percent increase in citations handed out as compared with the same period last year. Zimmerman said DUI checkpoints, bicycle officers and gang-suppression units will be a police staple during the summer months in anticipation of millions flocking to the beach areas for the Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends. The last days of spring went unmarked by any significant incidents, Zimmerman said. “We’ve had very few minor incidents,” Zimmerman said. “A few lost kids — well, more like lost parents, because the kids know where they are.”