Richard Payerchin – The Morning Journal The city of Lorain will seek another round of bids for a project that will transform mounds of piled slag to a green belt along the Black River. Meanwhile, the city also is seeking a consultant to help design and operate a facility that will reuse sediment dredged from… Read More
DESTIN — Okaloosa County appears to be only a step or two away from an agreement for the much-needed dredging of Destin’s East Pass. County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to go along with a plan under which 105,000 cubic yards of sand will be spread along the coastline east of the Pass at Holiday Isle… Read More
The Elizabeth II in Roanoke Island Festival Park. Photo: Outer Banks Sentinel DARE COUNTY — With its approval this week of a capital project ordinance for the Shallowbag Bay Dredging Project in Manteo, the Dare County Commissioners moved a step closer to freeing the Elizabeth II, the iconic wooden vessel stranded by shoaling and unable… Read More
(U.S. Army photo by Andria Allmond) CHESAPEAKE, Va. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to begin Dismal Swamp Canal dredging early next week. This is roughly a year ahead of schedule due to lingering impacts from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Norfolk District will manage the maintenance project as an effort to eliminate shoaling… Read More
Mexico Beach is far from recovered after Hurricane Michael walloped the shore last fall. Now lawmakers are hoping to help speed that recovery along. Rep. Jay Trumbull (R-Panama City) says a big part of the recovery is beach restoration. He’s asking the state to foot the bill to the tune of $25-million. “To essentially reestablish… Read More
OAK ISLAND, NC (WECT) – Construction is underway on a dredging project and a new Publix in the Town of Oak Island. Residents can expect to see crews unloading heavy equipment onto the beach in preparation for a small dredging project in the Intracoastal Waterway. The town is asking the public to give crews space… Read More
In early January, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) and Ohio EPA received approval to begin funding almost $10 million in dredging projects, as part of the state’s Healthy Lake Erie Fund. Three projects, with the Port of Toledo, the City of Lorain and the City of Conneaut, will use the funds to support… Read More
Image via Youtube North Carolina Wildlife Commission coming to county’s April 1 meeting COLUMBUS—It sounds like the dredging of Lake Adger could be in the near future as the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is scheduled to unveil its plans at the county’s April 1 meeting. Commissioners met Monday and heard from county manager Marche… Read More
WHITEWATER — The Whitewater Common Council on Tuesday moved forward three major city projects for this year, including the dredging of Cravath and Trippe lakes. Meeting in regular session, the council gave formal approval to complete the water drawdown of Cravath and Trippe lakes starting in September. It also approved a separate, but related, issued… Read More
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Crews will soon start dredging the Thimble Shoals Channel in the Chesapeake Bay. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a news release it awarded a maintenance dredging contract to Manson Construction Co. on March 1. Manson Construction will maintain 11 miles of the Chesapeake Bay Thimble Shoal Channel… Read More
Photo Courtesy of the Department of Land and Natural Resources WAIMEA — The state is planning to dredge the mouth of the Waimea River in mid-March, and on Wednesday there’s a meeting set to bring the public up to speed on the project. The goal is to remove 15,000 cubic yards of sand from the… Read More
Augusta — The Maine Department of Transportation’s three-year transportation infrastructure work plan for calendar years 2019, 2020 and 2021 is now available to the public. Among 2,193 projects that involve mostly roads and bridges across the state, the plan calls for dredging Searsport’s commercial channel, which serves Mack Point, at an estimated cost of $5.5… Read More
IDUKE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS — Vancouver-based Milestone Environmental Contracting was recently awarded the Y Jetty and Lang Cove Remediation Project located at the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt naval harbour. ESQUIMALT HARBOUR, B.C. — Vancouver-based Milestone Environmental Contracting has been awarded the Y Jetty and Lang Cove Remediation Project located at the Department of National Defense’s (DND) Canadian… Read More
On Monday, the Minnesota House approved HF80, a bill to convert bonding projects previously financed by Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) bonds to traditional general obligation bonds.Included in the projects wasfunding for the Lake Orono dredging project in Elk River. “This project has been in the works for a number of years and I… Read More
The village is tapping a state grant to draft a revitalization and management plan for Hunter Lake. Photographer: Stock images Village committee set to meet March 11 Hunter Lake, also known as “the Northville Little Lake”, will be the focus of a $72,000 Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan grant from New York state. “We are very… Read More