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The news about Port Mansfield’s ship channel getting dredged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just gotten better, Willacy County Navigation District’s Executive Director Ron Mills reports. Mills initially thought the much-needed dredging from the harbor to the sea buoy would be to a depth of 14-feet. However, he has now learned it… Read More
After weeks of absence, dredge boats will be returning to Seaside Park to continue beachfill and dune-building operations, officials said Tuesday. An accident in which a dredge pipe burst Sept. 3 and other maintenance issues, as well as the diversion of dredge boats to projects in New York, have hampered the schedule of the project… Read More
Few things are worse for boaters than hearing the sickening thump and scrape after unexpectedly hitting bottom, and many boaters have reported damage to their boats in areas when shoaling has occurred. That won’t be a problem for much longer in township channels, because for the first time in decades, the NJ Department of Maritime… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers has approved a $5.4 million dredging project that will make the paper mill and Panama City’s new port more accessible to bigger ships than ever before. U.S. Rep. Neal Dunn said the Corps approved the project as part of its 2019 fiscal year spending on Tuesday. Making port access easier… Read More
Funding to complete the second phase of JAXPORT’s harbor dredging project has been committed, according to Jacksonville Congressman John Rutherford. Rutherford says the US Army Corps of Engineers has slated $46 million for the project in its FY 2019 Work Plan, which will cover the final funding needed for the five-mile stretch. The USACE recently… Read More
The much needed dredging for the Depoe Bay Harbor will likely soon become a reality. Depoe Bay has been allocated nearly $900,000 for the project. The US Army Corps of Engineers has released its FY19 work plan and officials said Oregon did very well, gaining “significant plus-ups” for the work in the Columbia River and… Read More
The beach, from the Dusit Thani Hotel through the Pattaya Police Station, is now impressively wide, even during high tide. Tourists spread out across the sandy expanse, relaxing on mats, sunbathing in chairs and enjoying family activities. From Soi 9 to Soi 12, heavy machinery and sweaty workers are expanding the beach from its paltry… Read More
The World Igbo Environment Foundation (WIEF) has called for the dredging of River Niger and de-silting of water bodies to solve the perennial problem of flooding in Nigeria. The foundation’s Executive Director, Dr Odili Ojukwu, made the suggestion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Awka. Ojukwu said that… Read More
The Beloe More recently joined its sister vessel Severnaya Dvina in the Port of Sabetta, northern Russia. The 2,000 m3 hopper dredger was delivered from stock to FSUE ROSMORPORT. The customised hopper dredger will perform maintenance duties and execute capital dredging in the newly created harbour. The Beloe More – meaning ‘White Sea’ in Russian… Read More
Oil and gas produced from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico and on federal land in Louisiana in fiscal year 2018 will add $91 million to the budgets of the state and coastal parishes, the Interior Department announced recently, with much of the money dedicated to state coastal protection and restoration. The biggest chunk,… Read More
THE dredging of the Warri Port in Delta State, to seven metres draught, will be completed soon, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Managing Director, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman, has said. The low draught of the port, importers and clearing agents said, has made the Warri and Calabar ports unattractive for business. Ms Bala Usman assured… Read More
An Army Corps of Engineers study of plans to deepen the area around JaxPort’sBlount Island terminal finds the project would have no significant impact on the St. Johns River or nearby habitat. But the St. Johns Riverkeeper calls the Corps’ study incomplete, saying the project will have a substantial effect on wildlife and the environment…. Read More
Over several decades General Electric (GE) dumped an estimated 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the Hudson River between 1947 and 1977. GE completed a $1.7 billion PCB dredging project in 2014 and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the midst of a five-year review to determine whether or not GE’s cleanup… Read More
A century’s worth of bad environmental practices by local industries is slated for dredging out of the “Old Channel” around Zug Island, in a more than $50-million federal project to improve long-standing pollution problems on the Rouge River. Arising from the murk with potentially health-harming, ecology-wrecking pollution will be eight or so cars, mysteriously sunk… Read More
As far as the Ganga is concerned, the Modi government has not been short on symbolism, funds, infrastructure, promises and periodic announcements. But does ‘Namami Gange’ suggest a positive intent to achieve nirmal (clean) Ganga, if not aviral (incessantly flowing) Ganga? The government is, in fact, doing a lot that adversely affects the river. These… Read More