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Good news for a major project in the Town of Nanton. The cost of dredging out the water reservoir, with 40 years of sediment in it, has come in at under $700,000 down from the 1.25 million dollars council approved in a borrowing bylaw. The reservoir is filled with 60 percent sludge from Mosquito Creek,… Read More
NORTH WILDWOOD – As in past years, beginning the week of April 22, 2019, North Wildwood will begin their annual shore protection and replenishment project of moving sand from Wildwood to North Wildwood. According to a release, during that time, North Wildwood beaches will intermittently be closed at various sections from Second to 26th avenues… Read More
Town meeting also backs purchase of tidal flats. WELLFLEET — Town meeting voters quickly approved the Select Board’s request for $7.5 million Monday night for dredging state- and town-owned areas of the harbor and around the town pier, as recommended by the Finance Committee and a local task force. “Everything is on the table,” Town… Read More
(Omaha) — Repairs are set for a levee breach near Hamburg. Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Omaha District Friday awarded a $12 million contract for a second initial breach repair to Levee L-575 along the Missouri River. The contract was awarded to Newt Marine Services of Dubuque. Corps officials say the repair… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced the availability of $900 million in discretionary grant funding through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants program. The grants are for investments in surface transportation infrastructure and will be awarded on a competitive basis to projects that will have a significant local or… Read More
In late January, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Norfolk District Water Resources Division team completed a site-management project supporting a dredging project at Fort Eustis Third Port of Embarkation. An overgrowth of phragmites had to be removed at the dredged material placement site at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. The support team devegetated about… Read More
District awarded a $92 million construction contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC, to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel (CCSC) from the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island, as part of the Channel Improvement Project (CIP). This contract will increase the depth from -47 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW)… Read More
An agreement between New York City and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to use dredged sand to re-nourish and restore Rockaway beach between Beach 92nd Street and Beach 103rd Street was announced in March. Depending on the severity of spring storms and the dredging schedule, the project should allow for the reopening of this… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Omaha says it has awarded a $12 million contract to repair a Missouri River levee near Hamburg, Iowa, that broke during catastrophic flooding last month. The Corps says the breach repair should provide temporary flood protection of critical infrastructure. The contract was awarded to Newt Marine Services of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District awarded Ryba Marine Construction Company from Cheboygan, Michigan, a $736,000 contract for maintenance dredging in the River Rouge in southwest Detroit, Michigan. Ryba Marine will remove approximately 66,500 cubic yards of shoal material from Dix Road to the I-75 Highway. Material from the dredging project will be… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District awarded Peterson Companies Inc. a contract to dredge stamp sands in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula between Gay, Michigan and the Grand Traverse Harbor. The EPA provided the Corps with an additional $946,000 in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) funding. The award of these options… Read More
The city of South Haven was able to get some federal dollars to have the Army Corps of Engineers do some dredging in the harbor this year. Assistant City Manager and Harbormaster Kate Hosier told WSJM News what’s happening. “Beginning this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allowed King Company to come into… Read More
The city of Sanibel anticipates having the design plans in the next week or so for a project aimed at addressing beach erosion on the northern end of the island, adjacent to Sanibel-Captiva Road. Earlier this year, the city hired the coastal engineering firm Humiston & Moore Engineers, out of Naples, to examine the area… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District announced maintenance dredging of the Intracoastal Waterway (IWW) channel for Palm Beach and Broward counties is underway. The locations are approximately 16 miles apart. Dredging in Palm Beach County is limited to a small shoal and will bring the channel down to a depth of 9 feet,… Read More
BEAUMONT — Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick updated commissioners’ court Monday on the ongoing coastal reconstruction project. “We got $80 million from the BP Oil Spill,” Branick said. “There was some money that we fought real hard for from the Department of the Interior. We got an additional $14 million from them and (Hurricane) Harvey… Read More