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The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District is beginning dredging work on two stormwater ponds that clean polluted stormwater that runs off city streets in Minneapolis and Edina. The Southwest Bde Maka Ska Pond in Minneapolis filters runoff before it enters Bde Maka Ska – formerly known as Lake Calhoun – while the Pamela Park Pond Cell… Read More
More than a year after General Electric Co. requested the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a certificate of completion on its cleanup of the Hudson River, an answer could be coming soon. That’s according to Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who believes the agency will issue the certificate, ending GE’s responsibility for the health of the… Read More
When the Port of Hueneme was built in the late 1930s, it disrupted the flow of sand to beaches to the south. That means every two years and often less, depending on recent weather events, the coastline shrinks. “You get some severe erosion and we lose a good portion of our beach, especially at the… Read More
Estimated costs for a plan described as not quite the Chevy of dam removal projects could still cost the city millions of dollars. Now the city is floating the idea of paying for removing the old Pucker Street dam on the Dowagiac River north of town with several million dollars in bonds. City Council approved… Read More
For the first time since the construction of the breachway in 1904, the Quonochontaugsalt pond, which straddles Charlestown and Westerly, is being dredged. The equipment was delivered on Dec. 7 and the work, which is being done by J.F. Brennan Inc. of Lacrosse, Wisconsin, began Dec. 10 and is continuing 24 hours a day, six… Read More
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