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The fabric tent at Sheltered Cove Marina will have green slats in the fence to mitigate its visual impact to the residents. Photo by: Pat Johnson Tuckerton is looking for another dredge materials site in Tuckerton Beach for when the lagoons are dredged, said Tuckerton Councilman John Schwartz. The town is looking at the Noller… Read More
A dredging project in Lake Linganore estimated to cost about $18 million is scheduled to begin in March or April. The Maryland Environmental Service (MES) announced earlier this month that a notice of intent for a $12.7 million contract was awarded to Mobile Dredging & Video Pipe Inc. to complete the project. That company has… Read More
Jefferson Parish is receiving $32 million in state funding for coastal restoration projects in Jean Lafitte and Grand Isle. Over $22 million in flood protection measures will be dedicated to building levees in the Rosethorne basin area of Jean Lafitte. Nearly $12 million will go toward Goose Bayou’s Penn Levee, and over $10 million will… Read More
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority expects to have 23 levee and coastal restoration projects under construction in Southeastern Louisiana during fiscal year 2020 and another 20 projects will undergo engineering and design work, the authority’s new executive director said during a public hearing in New Orleans Wednesday evening (Jan. 30). The projects are included… Read More
South Jinks Creek connects Tubbs Inlet with the Intracoastal Waterway, providing ocean access to property owners who live on the eastern end of Sunset Beach. SUNSET BEACH – The town is resubmitting its request for a permit to dredge a portion of Jinks Creek after state officials deemed the initial application incomplete. The North Carolina… Read More
File Photo: Darren Kinsella FURTHER preparatory works for a dredging project in Howth are expected to continue under the 2019 Capital Programme, which is due to be announced in the coming weeks, according to Senator Catherine Noone (FG). “Moreover, an announcement is also due to be made by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the… Read More
Earlier this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $92 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company to deepen and widen a 7.6-mile reach of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island, just above the Port Aransas Ferry Landing. Under the contract, which is part… Read More
Manson Construction Company began work on the Duval County Shore Protection Project to restore critically eroded beaches and dunes. Under a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, the contractor is pumping approximately 850,000 cubic yards of sand on 8 miles of eroded beaches, including Jacksonville, Neptune and Atlantic beaches. Construction began… Read More
Jan De Nul expects a better 2019 following a tough 2018 for the company’s operations in Latin America. In December, the company signed a 25-year maintenance dredging contract awarded in mid-September covering a 95-kilometer (59-mile) access channel area for the Ecuadorian Port of Guayaquil. Company executives said the project is the company’s latest in a… Read More
French grain terminal operator Senalia considers a creation of a port complex in Ukraine and plans to complete creation of a joint logistics company in Algeria in 2019. Senalia is the largest grain operator in the northern French port Rouen, the main export hub of the leading grain producing country of the European Union, reports… Read More
AVALON – Avalon Borough Council authorized a bid process Jan. 23 for a back bay dredging project in the public channel west of 21st Street in Pennsylvania Harbor. The channel was last dredged in 2015. Estimates are that it has filled with as much as 1,750 cubic yards of a silt-like material. Borough Engineer Thomas… Read More
WSA Koblenz (WasserSchiffahrtsAmbt ) has awarded Damen Shipyards Group a contract to build a new diving bell ship. The ship will succeed an existing vessel – the Carl Straat, which has been in operation since 1963. The new vessel, like her predecessor, will operate in the River Rhine and its tributaries. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Heinrich Witte,… Read More
Visakhapatnam: The Visakhapatnam Industrial Water Supply Company (VIWSCO), a subsidiary of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), is planning to procure an amphibian vehicle for desilting and dredging of the Yeleru canal. The canal from Yeleru reservoir to the city, spanning over 153 kilometres, is the major drinking water source for the city. The silt… Read More
GEORGETOWN, SC (WCSC) – Georgetown leaders announced Sunday that they are in the beginning stages of getting funding to have the Port of Georgetown dredged. Leaders say they are forming a committee to have the port dredged, something Georgetown Mayor Brendon Barber says has not been done since 2006. Barber believes their waters could bring… Read More
A project to dredge part of the Grantham Canal is taking place which, once finished, will bring boats back to this stretch for the first time in 90 years. The works are taking place in partnership between the Canal & River Trust and Grantham Canal Society with funding made possible thanks to players of the… Read More