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The Ministry of Transport and Communications has begun dredging works in Doha Port as efforts continue to develop all ports countrywide and preserve their infrastructure. The Ministry aims to boost Doha Port’s capacity to be able to accommodate the largest cruise ships in the future, helping to position Doha among world’s top cruise ship tourism… Read More
Over the next five months, portions of the beach in the Port Canaveral area will be closed. The largest sand bypass project in two decades is now underway. Beach renourishment project underway in Port Canaveral Project to replenish 3.5 miles of beach south of Port Canaveral Goal to preserve wildlife habitat, keep shoreline away from… Read More
Despite recent rainfall, the lowering of Lake Balboa is still on track for dredging to begin by Jan. 1. Lakes ecology and fisheries manager Brad Meredith shared that information at the Dec. 5, Hot Springs Village Property Owners’ Association lakes meeting, adding that water is being let out of the lake at a rate of… Read More
The IEmotions ran high at a public meeting in West Bay on Tuesday, when district residents met with the owner of Calico Jack’s beach bar and begged him to pull his application to dredge an area in Barkers that would remove more than four acres of turtle grass. Many of the people who attended told… Read More
Residents of Queens Creek will finally get some relief from the shoaling that has plagued boaters on the creek for years. Queens Creek residents Chris and Bill Burry said in an e-mail that the dredge Grace II, which is owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor Southern Maryland Dredging Company, anchored inside Cow Point… Read More
WARRENPOINT Port says will no longer pursue proposals to change how it deals with dredged material. Authorities had been considering the feasibility of a new placement site in the mouth of Carlingford Lough between Cranfield Point and Greencastle, but the plans will not now proceed following the initial findings of site surveys. Port chief executive… Read More
More than 1.3 million cubic yards of sand will be moved onto beaches in Cape Canaveral from Jetty Park to the Cocoa Beach Pier over the next five months. The work pumping sand from the shoreline began this week, kicking off the 3.5-mile sand bypass project– the largest in the Port Canaveral area history. The… Read More
Five years after the 2013 floods devastated the Loveland area, crews are still dealing with indirect effects of the floodwaters. One of those effects is particularly abrasive — the amounts of sand and detritus that have ended up in Lake Loveland. Crews from local company Coulson Excavating are working on the lake bed this month… Read More
SMD-Invest has started dredging works at the Kherson maritime merchandise port as a winner of the tender of the Kherson branch of state-owned enterprise (SOE) Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. “The last time the operational dredging in the port of Kherson was carried out seven years ago – in 2005-2011: then the total volume was less… Read More
The Governor administration has ordered dredging of the flood spill channel that spans a vast area from Padshahibagh to far ends of the city in north Kashmir. The devastating floods in 2014 and the subsequent expert warnings about poor preparedness against future calamities had not prompt any action from the authorities for past four years…. Read More
After removing 2.65 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the Upper Hudson River, General Electric insists its work is over. But an analysis of samples collected after the cleanup may bring the company back to the river. Since 2009, GE has been forced to spend billions of dollars to remove the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)… Read More
Frequent cold fronts are pushing back a badly needed beach re-nourishment project on Lido Key. The beach is critically eroded, and in some areas, buildings are in the water. “We’re not pumping today. The pipe on the beach is secured from the weather,” says Curtis Huggins, Coastal Dredging Company, Inc. Another cold front moved in… Read More
The renourishment of Egmont Key’s critically-eroded beaches is at a standstill because the project resulted in the deaths of six sea turtles, the maximum allowed. The $10 million project, which began last month and was suspended on Dec. 2, is expected to resume in late spring or early summer, before hurricane season, said Susan Jackson,… Read More
The last time the South Benson Marina Channel was dredged was in 2013, a year after Superstorm Sandy hit. But that was an isolated section at the pinch point across from St. Mary’s in Bridgeport, according to Public Works Director Joe Michelangelo, and for some boat owners, it’s time for the channel to be dredged… Read More
In one week, Petaluma saw three separate newsworthy events, each offering a different set of implications for city residents on long running issues. First, there was the revelation that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not budget the Petaluma River dredging project into its 2019 work plan. Then, on Dec. 1, an environmental group… Read More