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October 19, 2020: Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc (OFG) and Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) have announced today the signing of a cooperation agreement under which the two companies agree to work together on various projects to promote the use of marine CSEM technology. The agreement places specific emphasis on exploiting the obvious synergies between the state-of-the-art… Read More
DETROIT — FishPass project construction in Traverse City, Michigan, will kick off with a virtual groundbreaking ceremony October 24. This final phase of the Boardman River Ecosystem Restoration Project is primarily funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and led by the Great Lakes Commission in partnership with the City of… Read More
There is good news and bad news on the Bourne winter dredging front. The good news is the Little Bay channel at Monument Beach will be dredged. The bad news is the long-planned Pocasset River channel dredging will not. Delays with county dredge plans have frustrated the work in Pocasset. Natural Resources Director Chris Southwood… Read More
Following the Midtown Beach renourishment in May, Phipps Ocean Park is next in line to receive new sand to replace losses from Hurricanes Matthew and Irma. The project, which was presented at the Shore Protection Board meeting last week by Coastal Program Manager Rob Weber, will dredge approximately 400,000 cubic yards of offshore sand and… Read More
Sand from dredge will be used to replenish downcoast beaches; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be staged at Oxnard harbor area through February 2021. OXNARD—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be at Channel Islands Harbor to dredge the harbor’s main channel, with the hydraulic dredge H.R. Morris scheduled to arrive early this month…. Read More
This graphic, produced in October 2020, shows current depths in the Seagirt Loop channel, based on data shared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, and the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration are launching a study to determine ways to address marine navigation at the… Read More
US Senator Mazie K. Hirono announced that Hawai?i County will receive $1,494,360 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of a grant agreement based on losses at Isaac Hale Beach Park due to the 2018 K?lauea eruption. The funding will utilized for park related infrastructure to assist with Puna’s recovery. “We have come to… Read More
2019-01084-39 Published Oct. 5, 2020 | Expiration date: 11/4/2020 The applicant, PSEG Nuclear LLC, proposes to construct a port facility by installing docking structures and performing dredging. The proposed port would cater to proposed offshore wind turbine projects that would be located off the east coast of the United States. The applicant’s stated purpose is create… Read More
GALVESTON, Texas — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District awarded an $8,913,362.61 Architect-Engineer (AE) Task Order Sept. 30, to AECOM HDR Galveston JV, for design efforts of the Sabine to Galveston Freeport and Vicinity Coastal Storm Risk Management Project. The AE will provide a 35% design package for all contract areas of… Read More
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The Union County freeholder board announced on Friday, Sept. 25, that it will be receiving $250,000 in state funds that will be used to dredge the Clark Reservoir, which sits off Lake Avenue in the township. The announcement comes as the county is currently studying recreational usage, environmental impacts and dredging… Read More
Dredging plans have been approved for three areas of Rainbow Lake, which has long had problems with the growth of weeds and algae. Suction dredging at three locations in 42-acre Rainbow Lake has been approved by the town Inland Wetlands Board. The Ridgefield Lakes Association won approval for plans to remove muck and leaves from… Read More
Corps awards $8.9M contract to AECOM HDR for design the Sabine to Galveston Freeport and Vicinity Project GALVESTON, Texas – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District awarded an $8,913,362.61 Architect-Engineer (AE) Task Order Sept. 30, to AECOM HDR Galveston JV, for design efforts of the Sabine to Galveston Freeport and Vicinity Coastal… Read More
Mike Hooks, LLC, a leading dredging contractor along the Gulf Coast, announces they were awarded the contract to perform maintenance dredging in the Calcasieu River and Pass– a nearly $13 million contract. The Company submitted their bid through the competitive contract opportunity from the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide dredging services in Calcasieu… Read More
The Wisconsin Domestic Maritime Coalition reports that Luedtke Engineering Company has returned to Green Bay Harbor for the fourth time in the last five years to complete maintenance dredging of the federal navigational channel. Each year clean dredge material is beneficially reused by being pumped into island cells of the Cat Island Chain restoration project…. Read More
BUFFALO, NY — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District awarded a $3.86 million contract to Michigan-based Great Lakes Dock & Materials, L.L.C, on August 21 for repairs to the east breakwater in the Great Sodus Harbor, located in Sodus Bay, Village of Sodus Point, Wayne County, NY. Construction is scheduled to start later… Read More