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Twenty sites along the Lake Ontario shoreline and the St. Lawrence River have been selected for dredging in order to prevent future flooding. Governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement during a stop on Wednesday at Sandy Pond in Oswego County. The first round of dredging is already complete – in Port Bay, Wayne County. Other… Read More
ENGLEWOOD — Beginning next week, Manasota Key could see fresh sand along its Gulf shoreline. Workers should begin pumping sand onto the shoreline starting Thursday, Feb. 20, barring any inclement weather or other unforeseen delay. Crews for the dredging contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, spent this week laying pipeline from offshore sand sources… Read More
SEASIDE — For 77 years, Fort Ord near Monterey was a sprawling Army base thick with artillery pieces, wooden barracks and infantrymen taking target practice with rifles and machine guns. More than 2 million men and women served there between 1917 and 1994, including soldiers who battled in World War I, stormed the beaches in… Read More
RYE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved $4 million to complete dredging work — the removal of earth and debris from the bottom of a body of water — at Rye Harbor. The Army Corps of Engineers approved of the work in its Fiscal Year 2020 Work Plan for Operation and Maintenance,… Read More
After years of neglect and lack of funding, the shallowing San Rafael Canal is closer to being fully dredged for the first time in more than 17 years. This week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allocated $1.3 million in its latest work plan this month to design the dredging of the San Rafael Creek…. Read More
Port Everglades has received a construction “New Start” designation in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) FY 2020 Work Plan, released today, according to a statement, The New Start designation funds $29.1 million to build a new facility for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Station Fort Lauderdale further east so the Intracoastal Waterway can… Read More
On Monday, February 10, 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its FY2020 Work Plan. The Work Plan is based on the FY2020 Energy and Water Development appropriations bills signed into law by President Trump in December 2019. “We welcome the FY 2020 Work Plan released by the Army Corps,” said William P. Doyle,… Read More
Project could produce more sand on city beaches OCEANSIDE — This year’s spring cleaning of the Oceanside harbor’s entrance could be deeper than in recent years, an effort to make navigation safer and produce more sand for the city’s beaches. The annual dredging removes sand that builds up in the harbor entrance during winter storms… Read More
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – The Norfolk District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $23.7 million contract to a Miami-based business for beach renourishment at the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the project includes the construction of breakwaters and placing 1.3 million… Read More
GALVESTON, Texas – Jacobs-Stantec has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to design and build a 26.7-mile-long levee and floodwall system along the coastline along the Southeast Texas coastline, according to a news release from the company. According to the USACE, the project is estimated to be an eight-year, $1.9 billion construction… Read More
New Project Announcement: P-834 SEAWOLF Class Service Pier Manson is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a contract with NAVFAC Northwest, to build the P-834 SEAWOLF Class Service Pier Extension project! This $89.3 million project will involve constructing a 520-ft. by 68-ft. submarine berthing pier extension to the existing service pier and two… Read More
Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the “Company”) a leading specialty construction company, today announced a contract award totaling approximately $47 million. The Company’s Industrial unit has been awarded a contract from the Port of New Orleans for the Nashville Terminal container conversion project in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project calls for the demolition of… Read More
Dredging could impact public use of Rogers Park starting next spring. WEEKI WACHEE — As a project to deepen and widen the Weeki Wachee River channel appears to be getting closer, Hernando County commissioners approved a license agreement last month to give the dredging contractor access to various county sites. The Southwest Florida Water Management… Read More
A shrinking beach is about to get bigger. Work is set this month to replace the sand along Manasota Key’s shoreline. For years, storms and erosion have taken their toll. Now, equipment is being shipped from Georgia and is expected to arrive in the next day or two for use in a beach renourishment project…. Read More
ENGLEWOOD — Damian Ochab is happy Sarasota County is joining Charlotte County in its effort to nourish the eroded shoreline along Manasota Key. “That makes it a regional project,” said Ochab who is president of the Manasota/Sandpiper Key Association. As a regional effort, he said, the project has a better chance to qualify for state… Read More