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VICKSBURG, Miss. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District has announced fall and winter schedules for campgrounds and recreation areas across its Arkansas lakes, Lake Ouachita, DeGray Lake and Lake Greeson. The following campgrounds at Lake Ouachita will be partially closed beginning 4 p.m. on Oct. 31 until March 1, 2021: Brady… Read More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Longview Lake announces maintenance and repair work to the embankment slopes (front and back) of Longview Dam in Kansas City, Mo. For the safety of lake visitors and workers, traffic lights are installed on the dam for the duration of the project while construction… Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WHAT: Groundbreaking ceremony for construction of multiple seepage remediation projects to include Below Senath, Missouri; Big Island, Arkansas; and Below Piggott/Below Hwy 90, Arkansas. WHO: Partners to include the St. Francis Drainage District of Clay and Greene Counties, Arkansas and officials, the Mississippi River Commission and the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District signed a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) with the City of Clinton, Mississippi, Friday, August 21 as part of the Mississippi Environmental Infrastructure Program (Section 592). The PPA will rehabilitate Clinton’s water system, including the refurbishment of a one million gallon elevated water storage… Read More
The North Carolina Ferry Division announced in July that it was temporarily reducing service on Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter and Ocracoke because of critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel. Cedar Island is in eastern Carteret County. The Army Corps of Engineers’ most recent survey at the time showed depths in the… Read More
In July, the North Carolina Ferry System announced that they were temporarily reducing service on the Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter, and Ocracoke due to critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel just outside of Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. The latest survey at that time, by the Army Corps of Engineers, showed water… Read More
The Twin Lakes Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District commissioners approved a bid to dredge the channel between Lakes Mary and Elizabeth at a lake district meeting Monday. Commissioners, who are the same individuals as the Village Board, approved a bid from EcoWaterway Services for $30,640 for the work. In approving the work, commissioners were concerned… Read More
The Township Committee is moving forward with a project to dredge Dealaman Pond off Mount Horeb Road. The committee voted unanimously to award a $337,500 bid for the project to Tricon Enterprise of Keyport at a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 13. Tricon was the lowest bidder of eight companies who responded to a request for… Read More
MUSCATINE, Iowa – A pair of cranes that had recently been in Cedar Rapids helping in storm cleanup efforts were in the old boat launch area of Riverside Park Friday (Aug. 21), lifting the City of Muscatine dredge into the Mississippi River. The dredge will spend the next two or more weeks removing Mississippi River… Read More
Boaters and paddlers only have a few short weeks left before the Petaluma River undergoes a makeover 17 years overdue, as dredging crews prepare for a weeks-long process to extract the silt that has suffocated the tidal waterway and Petaluma’s once-thriving river culture. With the promise of a renewed river just months away, city leaders,… Read More
OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States announced today the receipt of several major dredging awards totaling $117.8 million. The awarded work includes: Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico, Head of Passes Hopper Dredge… Read More
SACRAMENTO, California — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District awarded a services contract August 7 to Adanta Inc., of Napa, California to restore a self-sustaining tidal marsh at the site of the future VA clinic on Alameda Point, California. The VA Northern California Health Care System will administer the new clinic. The four-year… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has awarded a $2.1 million contract to Ryba Marine and Construction to conduct dredging of the federal navigation channel in Maumee Bay, located along Lake Erie in Toledo Harbor, in the city of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. The contract calls for dredged material to be placed in… Read More
Cape Carteret Commissioners voted 4-1 last week to authorize Manager Zach Steffey to establish a process to address potential local financial participation in a county plan to dredge creeks and canals in town. Carteret County is planning to dredge the Old Ferry Channel in Bogue Sound between Cape Carteret and Emerald Isle and is also… Read More
A $7 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project next year will strengthen the rocky north jetty at Ponce Inlet, which should help eliminate dangerous cross currents and the shoaling that can make the inlet treacherous for boaters. In the meantime, boaters will need to continue to carefully navigate the inlet. The Volusia County Council… Read More