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Holmes Beach commissioners want to remediate the highly toxic Spring Lake. But whether the water body between 68th and 70th streets should return to fresh water origins or a subsequently transformed saltwater ecosystem will be studied next. At an Oct. 9 work session, city engineer Lynn Burnett called the ammonia levels “highly toxic” and agreed… Read More
A judge has tossed out a lawsuit by a Siesta Key group seeking to block the city’s planned dredging of Big Pass to rebuild parts of critically eroded Lido Beach. Circuit Court Judge Andrea McHugh on Friday granted the city of Sarasota’s request to dismiss a suit brought by the Siesta Key Association in March… Read More
Commissioners aren’t sure about what to do for the future of Spring Lake, and they’re hoping the lake’s residents will step up to help them make a decision. City Engineer Lynn Burnett presented commissioners with a water quality report and lake assessment for Spring Lake during an Oct. 9 meeting. Burnett said she agreed with… Read More
Performance Proppants of Shreveport, La., remains on schedule to open a Red River sand mining operation by March 1 near Doddridge, Ark. “We are very close to completing all dirt work. Two of the silos have been built and steel structure for the screen house is nearing completion,” said Ryan K. McMaster, director of sales… Read More
The Hot Springs Village lakes committee met on Oct. 10, at which they received current information on a host of lake related matters from lakes ecology and fisheries manager Brad Meredith. He told the committeemen in attendance that the new lake work barge is a huge improvement, saying it’s much larger than the previous work… Read More
An environmental cleanup project for the Rouge River took another step forward after a Muskegon-based firm was awarded a multimillion-dollar federal contract. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency awarded about $16 million to Great Lakes Dock and Materials to dredge and cap portions of the Lower Rouge River Old Channel… Read More
The Town of South Bruce Peninsula said on its website the Colpoy’s Bay pier was reopened for public use as of Sept. 28. “The only thing they have to do is just add some bumpers and put the ladder back on it, that’s it,” Mayor Janice Jackson said in an interview after a council meeting… Read More
Warrenpoint Port has held a public consultation over controversial proposals to dispose of dredging material close to protected parts of Carlingford Lough. A large cross-border crowd attended the event at the Town Hall on Monday evening. Currently all dredged material is dumped 16 miles off the coast. But the port wants to relocate some waste… Read More
The first phase of the dumping of mud off the coast of Cardiff as part of work to build a new nuclear power station in Somerset has been completed. EDF, the firm building Hinkley Point C, said contractors have completed the work. Campaigners had demanded more tests on the sediment, taken from a site in… Read More
Two companies owned by a former Port of Corpus Christi commissioner are asking a local judge to allow him access to information about a site in Ingleside owned by the port that it has reportedly been using to dump dredging material. The companies listed on the Sept. 27 petition are The Port of Corpus Christi… Read More
Goodwin Sands SOS has launched a crowdfunding appeal for a Judicial Review against the Marine Management Organisation’s decision to grant Dover Harbour Board a licence to dredge 3 million tonnes of aggregate from the historic Goodwin Sands. Goodwin Sands SOS has instructed environmental and public lawyers, Richard Buxton Ltd, to represent them. Their claim for… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers is considering expanding the area where “beach quality” material is disposed from its dredging activities in Mobile Bay, but some Dauphin Island residents are concerned the change still won’t fix their problems with erosion. As Lagniappe has reported, the Corps recently ended the public comment period for the draft version… Read More
Dredging work at Oamaru Harbour is set to start today or tomorrow, the Waitaki District Council has confirmed. A 40-tonne excavator with a 16m reach was delivered to a site near the Oamaru Breakwater in preparation for the work, which will also involve the use of a second 30-tonne excavator and a 35-tonne dump truck…. Read More
Dredging is set to begin next week in the Swinomish Channel. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Wednesday that J.E. McAmis, Inc., of California will remove about 154,000 cubic yards of material from the channel between Oct. 17 and Nov. 30. Removing the sediment that has built up in the 11-mile channel is necessary… Read More
Opponents of plans to dredge Big Pass are prepared to take the matter to federal court. The group Save Our Siesta Sand 2, which formed in opposition to the proposal, announced Friday it had begun the procedures necessary to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps is working with… Read More