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One of the first flood mitigation projects to break ground post-Hurricane Harvey, the Army Corps of Engineers began a nearly $70 million project to dredge a portion of the West Fork of the San Jacinto River in September. However, according to city and county officials, the project only scratches the surface of the additional efforts… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 6th. The construction company reported $0.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.03 by $0.15, MarketWatch Earnings reports. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock had a negative net margin of 1.07% and a negative return on… 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
Montrose Port Authority has warned it must be able to continue dumping dredged material around Lunan Bay “if the port is to remain operational”. Marine Scotland decided not to renew its licence in September, prompting concerns over the potential closure of deep water berths to freight and decommissioning traffic at the facility. The regulatory body… Read More
Dredging in Neabsco Creek is now underway. There is an estimated 17,000 cubic yards of silt clogging the channel in Neabsco Creek. To put that in perspective, one cubic yard of saturated silt can typically weigh up to 3,000 pounds. Fifty-one million pounds of soil or 25,500 tons of silt needs to be removed in… Read More
The Hudson River is in the beginning stages of another multi-year, multi-million-dollar cleanup project. Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. is investing $40 million into decontaminating the river near its City of Poughkeepsie property and creating a barrier that would prevent further pollution. The hope, by the time the project is complete in 2020, is… Read More
Fisheries Minister Vinod Palyekar has stated that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should follow the procedures keeping in mind the health and well being of the locals consuming fish. “The inspection of fish for formalin is being conducted out by the FDA and there should be no objection to the same,” Palyekar said after… Read More
Work could begin on the $3.9 million dredging of New Pass this weekend, Sarasota city officials said on Wednesday. Around 185,000 cubic yards of sand will be removed from New Pass and used for emergency renourishment of nearby Lido Key. In May, the city declared a local state of emergency for Lido Beach because of… Read More
Well, it is probably time to discuss the elephant in the town, Lake Mitchell. During my door to door campaign for office, not one comment was negative about “fixing” Lake Mitchell, when an opinion was voiced. Though admittedly some people with opinions against reparation may have chosen to remain silent. It appeared those willing to… Read More
The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (IDNL) has closed access to the beach at the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk due to continued erosion, as reported by the Northwest Indiana Times. “Recent storm waves eroded away a portion of a sand dune and the only designated trail to the beach at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Portage Lakefront… Read More
Two local fishermen’s associations are suing the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District for the district’s failure to maintenance dredge commercial fishing facilities, the disappearance of three quarters of a million dollars of marina tenant’s payments for dredging and numerous coastal permit violations by the district. On Oct. 19, the Times-Standard reported on the… Read More
City Council last night approved the first reading of an ordinance that repeals the funding for the city’s proposed purchase of the Klause Enterprises property next to the Ocean City Community Center. My position on this issue has been the same from the beginning: I don’t want to see the property developed with more housing…. Read More
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