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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
1. Project Proponent. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, 180 Fifth Street East, Suite 700, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1678. 2. Project Authority. The proposed actions were authorized under the authority of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1930 (Public Law 71-520) originally authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps, USACE) to establish… Read More
SAULT STE. MARIE — Soo Lock construction is set to shift into the next phase, Phase 2, of construction in September. This construction, according to a press release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, is to facilitate the construction of a new Poe-sized lock in place of the existing Davis and Sabin… Read More
LSU is announcing today that work will begin in September on the project to rehabilitate and enhance the six-lake system surrounding the LSU campus known as the University Lakes. Despite widespread economic uncertainty due to the pandemic, the University Lakes project, which could ultimately cost as much as $50 million over several years, is able… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, released its draft Upper Mississippi River master plan and environmental assessment today, Aug. 14, and is seeking public comments. The master plan encompasses the Upper Mississippi River from the Twin Cities to Lock and Dam 10 in Guttenberg, Iowa. The current plan is… Read More
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) – Attractions making Lake Wichita a more appealing place to spend time have been making progress this year. The lakes boardwalk has been completed recently and a future project there would make the lake deeper. The Lakes Revitalization Committee wants to dredge the lake through selling the soil from the bottom… Read More
DETROIT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, awarded a contract for Ontonagon Harbor maintenance dredging about 140 miles east of Duluth, Minnesota, on the south shore of Lake Superior. USACE awarded a maintenance dredging contract for Ontonagon Harbor in August to MCM Marine Inc., out of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The contract… Read More