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Wolf Creek Dam is in line for some major upgrades as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Work Plan that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced last week. The Corps’s Nashville District has set aside nearly $689 million in total for Kentucky projects this year through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act… Read More
MILFORD — Milford will receive a $5 million federal grant to dredge the Milford Harbor, which has not been done since 1988. Mayor Ben Blake was joined by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal Tuesday at Lisman Landing for the announcement of the funding the dredging work, which will be done by… Read More
2021-00650-46 Expiration date: 2/19/2022 The applicant, Brigantine Marina and Paddle Club, proposes to conduct mechanical dredging, bulkhead reconstruction, boardwalk construction, and pier reconstruction at 4401 Atlantic-Brigantine Boulevard, City of Brigantine, Atlantic County, New Jersey. More details are available in the “Public Notice & Plan Details” document. Comments are requested by Feb. 19, 2022. Public Notice… Read More
Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., has been awarded an $18,218,202 firm-fixed-price contract for a 75-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul dry docking on the dry cargo ammunition ship USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13). Work will be performed in North Charleston and is expected to commence March 1, 2022, and be completed May… Read More
For close to five decades, efforts to address flooding in the Green Brook sub-basin near the Raritan River have been stymied by the lack of federal funding. But the project, which began in 1973, may finally be completed, thanks to $499.2 million approved by Congress in response to the devastating floods New Jersey experienced from… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC (GLDD), Houston, Texas, has been awarded a $20,315,900 firm-fixed-price contract for dredging, transporting, placing, planting and shaping beach fill, and performing pre- and post-construction beach surveys. Work will be performed in Carolina Beach and Kure Beach, N.C., with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2022. Bids were… Read More
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Four dredging projects slated for coastal Maine communities will improve safety and navigation for commercial fishermen and others, the state’s two senators said. The projects are in Ogunquit, Scarborough, Milbridge and Bar Harbor. The projects total about $18.5 million and they were included in the Amy Corp of Engineers work… Read More
The Wareham River in East Wareham is set to be dredged for the first time since 1953, thanks to funding secured at the federal level through the Nov. 2021 Infrastructure Bill. The Wareham Department of Natural Resources reported that the dredging of the river was funded as a navigational project. Expected funds will total nearly… Read More
We had some very good news this week out of Washington, D.C.: An $8.3 million funding allocation in the federal infrastructure bill to dredge the lower Newport Harbor. It is the final piece of the funding needed to restore the lower harbor to its original channel depths, which will maintain navigational safety, and improve harbor… Read More
In October 2018, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, in partnership with the non-federal sponsor, Walla Walla County, began a General Investigation (GI) study on the Mill Creek Flood Control Project. The purpose of the study was to address the risks Mill Creek presents to the community of Walla Walla, Washington, and… Read More
Congressional transportation policymakers recently announced plans to kick off consideration of legislation aimed at improving the country’s transportation waterways. An update of the Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA, would pave the way for the approval of billions of dollars for programs centered on flood protection, port dredging and environmental protection. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.),… Read More
(AP) – The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the release of $14 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers to fund 500 projects, with a focus on easing supply chain problems and addressing climate change. The spending stems largely from President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure deal, and the administration is trying to show how… Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 20, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates locks across 14 dam projects crisscrossing the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and their reservoirs. The Tennessee River flows for 652 miles, with locks providing safe passage for barges and other commercial vessels from Knoxville, Tennessee to the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky…. Read More
WASHINGTON – The Times Beach Nature Preserve, a 55-acre site on Buffalo’s Outer Harbor that has been battered into disuse by frequent storms in recent years, will be restored thanks to one of the first local outlays from last year’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal. Rep. Brian Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat, announced Wednesday that the… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, received $12 million for three water supply and sanitary sewer infrastructure projects in northern and eastern North Dakota in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or IIJA, Plan released this week. The three projects included in the plan are the city of… Read More