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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District has announced the award of a more than $12.9-million contract for the installation of two new dam lift gates and a new control system at Montgomery Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Monaca, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Pittsburgh District reports that it… Read More
MMT US Inc. has awarded Vento Maritime with a contract for MetOcean forecasts and weather support at Equinor’s Beacon Wind project offshore Massachusetts. Earlier this year, Equinor Wind US contracted MMT for geophysical survey services at the offshore wind lease area in New England. The project covers high resolution geophysical, benthic surveys and shallow subsurface… Read More
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Aug. 4, 2020) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District awarded a $7,015,443 contract July 28, 2020, to Kiewit Infrastructure South Co. of Omaha, Neb., for the Ponce De Leon Inlet North Jetty Rehabilitation and Aid to Navigation Replacement Project at Ponce de Leon Inlet in Volusia County, Fla. The Ponce… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District pumps sand onto Brant Beach, NJ in June 2013. The work is part of an effort to restore the Coastal Storm Risk Management project from damages associated with Hurricane Sandy. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) Dredging and beachfill operations are slated for Absecon Island in Atlantic County,… Read More
SALEM — The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 on Thursday, which would allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to spend $34 billion for harbor dredging over the next decade and possibly put a project in Newburyport Harbor closer on the horizon. Congressman Seth Moulton wrote a letter… Read More
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District awarded a contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of Oak Brook, Illinois for $23.8 million to complete periodic nourishment of the Absecon Island Coastal Storm Risk Management project in Atlantic County, N.J. The contract calls for placing approximately two million cubic yards of… Read More
Creosote, coal tar have polluted land, Lake Washington sediments The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its final plan for the cleanup of Quendall Terminals in Renton, a former creosote manufacturing plant and oil storage facility along Lake Washington, where for decades creosote, coal tar, and other hazardous chemicals accumulated on the land, in groundwater,… Read More
Investment Boom Continues; Callan Marine Announces Next State-of-the-Art Cutter Suction Dredge Washington, D.C.–July 31, 2020. Yesterday, Callan Marine of Galveston, Texas announced that a fifth cutter suction dredge (CSD), the General Bradley, will be added to the company’s fleet next year. The new dredge is a 28”, 341-foot long, diesel electric powered CSD with three… Read More
On July 31st, Gov. John Bel Edwards and other top Louisiana officials signed a formal agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin construction on the deepening of the Lower Mississippi River to 50 feet from 45 feet. This project will provide deep draft access to the ports at Baton Rouge, New Orleans,… Read More
Bipartisan measure includes projectsto improve three river systems in state The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Water Resources Development Act Wednesday, authorizing 34 U.S. Corps of Engineers projects across the country. It also contained provisions addressing three waterways that pass through Arkansas: the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System; the Ouachita and Black Rivers Navigation… Read More
Dyersburg, Tenn.,headquartered Inland Dredging Co. LLC, has been awarded a $24,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for rental of 24-inch cutterhead pipeline for dredging navigation projects in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District announces the award of a more than $12.9-million contract for the installation of two new dam lift gates and a new control system at Montgomery Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Monaca, Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District announces the… Read More
Sayreville and Old Bridge marina owners’ tireless efforts to have Cheesquake Creek dredged are finally paying off. U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-6th) announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for the dredging, which is expected to begin as early as August and take one month to complete. Burnham Dredging Co. of… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Carteret County will have to wait until Monday, Aug. 10 to open bids and perhaps award a contract for the next Bogue Banks beach nourishment project. In an email late Thursday afternoon, Greg Rudolph, manager of the County Shore Protection Office, said only two bids were received from contractors by the deadline… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — The planting of vegetation to help stabilize new dunes created in the Bogue Banks beach nourishment project completed this spring is finished. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said Tuesday workers from Coastal Transplants of Bolivia, working as a subcontractor under total nourishment project contractor Great Lakes… Read More