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In the 28 years the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation has hosted the Beach Sweep cleanup, it has pulled just about everything out of the water — even the proverbial kitchen sink. “But a lot of what we pick up is plastic,” said Anne Barrett, the LPBF education coordinator, “plastic water bottles, caps, straws and cups.”… Read More
Two items in the proposed 2019 budget drew protests from residents at the Nov. 5 common council meeting: $500,000 to repave, widen and add a 5-foot walking path on a portion of Milwaukee Street; and $500,000 to dredge Lake Nagawicka at the mouth of the Bark River. Milwaukee Street The Milwaukee Street project would be… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has awarded a contract for $736,000 to dredge River Rouge in Detroit with the goal of removing 66,500 cubic yards of shoal material. Cheboygan-based Ryba Marine Construction Company will remove the shoal material and place it at the Pointe Mouilee Confined Disposal Factory at the mouth of… Read More
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the State of New Hampshire was awarded a total of $27,147,000 in Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF) grants to finance community-based water infrastructure projects, such as upgrades to municipal sewage plants and public drinking water systems. “Communities across New Hampshire will enjoy… Read More
Local environmental groups are taking the Army Corps of Engineers to federal court to challenge a September permit and its supporting documents that allow for groin construction and beach renourishment on the Sea Island spit, efforts the Sea Island Company intend to bear fruit with future resort development. The lawsuit by the Altamaha Riverkeeper and… Read More
The super ships are coming and PortMiami, set in an aquatic preserve at the north tip of Biscayne Bay, says it needs to get bigger. While the scope of the work remains uncertain, enlarging the busy port just three years after the completion of the previous $205 million “Deep Dredge” is sure to set off… Read More
Deadlock between residents living in vicinity of Hokersar wetland and authorities has brought work on flood spill channel to halt, resulting in loss of precious months for dredging. From September, water level in Jhelum River comes down to lowest and the next three to four months are considered to be ideal for dredging and de-siltation… Read More
The Miners Association of Nigeria (MAN) has advised the Federal Government to call some state governors to order, over excessive fees leveled on miners. Alhaji Sani Shehu, the President of the association, gave the advice on Sunday in Abuja. Shehu said that some state governments had formed the habit of tasking miners to pay royalty,… Read More
A prviate company filling Preah Sihanouk province’s Praek Treng beach with soil is reluctant to dredge it despite a direct order from Prime Minister Hun Sen. On September 18, the prime minister ordered Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea Sophara to personally inspect claims of landfilling at Praek Treng beach. Following public… Read More
Marine construction crews began work over the last several days on one of several dredging projects that will keep several channels in northern Barnegat Bay open to boat traffic. Most visible is the large barge that anchored up just off Bayside Park, along Route 35 south in Brick Township’s Normandy Beach neighborhood over the past… Read More
A $1.09 million dredging project near the mouth of the Vinton Navigation Channel was completed last month, Port of Vinton officials said. The Mandeville-based contractor, Magnolia Dredging, removed more than 21,400 cubic yards of spoils over more than a five-month period. The work brought the depth of the channel where it enters into the Gulf… Read More
Funding of approximately €9 million has been provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW) for measures to alleviate the risk of flooding on the River Shannon. The funding was announced yesterday (Monday, November 6) by the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran. Minister Moran was… Read More
State Senator Patty Ritchie was greeted by Fulton Mayor Ron Woodward Sr on Monday to address the team of operators overseeing the development of a $200,000 dredge along C.C. Barrett Drive to clean Lake Neatahwanta and make it usable to the public. Woodward used the brief Nov. 5 press conference to personally thank Ritchie for… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will work next year with a private contractor to dredge sand and silt from Cape Porpoise Harbor, improving marine navigation off the eastern shore of Kennebunkport. The $2.5 million project is expected to take between one and three months and to be conducted between Nov. 1, 2019 and March… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is supplying the weapons in the only battle Fort Dade has ever seen – the one against erosion. Historic Egmont Key is slated to receive sand to shore up what’s left of the 1899 fort when the Tampa Bay shipping channel is dredged for maintenance beginning this month. The… Read More