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A special suction hopper dredger will be stationed off Northport, at Marsden Pt, from today to dredge the seabed for the first time in 17 years. Maintenance dredging is due to start at Northport today. The work to remove sediment build-up in the ship turning basin near Snake Bank, along Northport’s linear berth and at… Read More
The project to dredge the Suriname River has been in the works for years, but for some reason it was always shelved. It concerns deepening the fairway of Suriname’s main river over a span of 66 kilometres, from its estuary at the Atlantic Ocean past the capital of Paramaribo up to the village of Domburg… Read More
A federal judge is allowing the St. Johns Riverkeeper to argue why a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flooding analysis in Charleston, S.C., should be admitted as evidence in its lawsuit seeking to block the federal agency from deepening Jacksonville’s shipping channel. The issue is to some degree a technical one, but the Charleston study… Read More
Preliminary work has begun on a project to dredge about 150,000 cubic yards of sand out of the Sebastian Inlet and spread most of it on Indian River County beaches. Ferreira Construction of Stuart, which won the bid for the Sebastian Inlet District’s $2.9 million project, will put an 18-foot dredge on the west end… Read More
Jaxport’s project to deepen 11 miles of the St. Johns River to 47 feet got underway in February 2018 when Dutra Group began dredging the first three miles of the shipping channel. Dutra Group is expected to finish its segment of the deepening project by August. In November, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company began… Read More
Rusty Braun said he appreciated being recognized by the City Council for volunteer work to improve Veterans Cove. However, the attention left him “a little bit on the embarrassed side.” Braun operates the Riviera Marina, which is downriver from the cove. “It was a huge volunteer job you did for us,” City Manager Toby Cotter… Read More
But because of the permit challenges made by the Condo Alliance officers, county officials said the Corps of Engineers would not participate in the project nor contribute $1.5 million toward the entire project cost of up to $3.5 million. County officials then reverted to what they deemed “plan B.” It called for Okaloosa to pay… Read More
Burghead harbour is owned by the local authority who are tasked with overall maintenance of the site, including keeping the entrance free and clear for boats to come in and out. They use their own £2.4 million dredger, the Selkie, to do this – but it has emerged it has been tied up in Buckie… Read More
The latest news about PCB contamination in the Hudson River has dismayed both those who opposed dredging and those who championed it as the way to clean the river. After a year of testing fish, the Department of Environmental Conservation announced just before Christmas that contamination levels in fish were “essentially the same” as they… Read More
The completion of a $36 million project to restore and nourish wetlands on the northern edges of Lost Lake in Terrebonne Parish was announced Friday (Jan. 4) by Gov. John Bel Edwards. Weeks Marine Inc., based in New Jersey, but with several locations in Louisiana, was in charge of the dredging operation, which used sediment… Read More
Building a river and the entire ecosystem around it would seem to be a task reserved for Mother Nature or deities of some high pantheon. But the people of Summit County government and the town of Breckenridge have been doing just that, attempting to repair damage from the area’s dredge mining past with the Swan… Read More
The Harpersfield Dam construction is again underway after temporary cofferdams, used to divert water, gave way last Friday. Project Manager Gabriel Schmidbauer said the Harpersfield Dam Project was paused when the cofferdams were knocked down because of heavy rains Dec. 20. The sudden release of water caused some sediment to move downstream. “We won’t know… Read More
Work began on Thursday to extend a small British port that could serve as a back-up if the UK leaves the European Union with no trade deal, providing the government some respite after days of criticism. Less than three months before Britain leaves the EU on March 29, the transport minister has been forced to… Read More
The Minister of Inner-city and Zongo Development, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has defended his earlier statement during President Nana Akufo-Addo’s encounter with the press, at which he indicated that the Aboabo Pelele drains in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region has been dredged by his ministry. Dr Abdul-Hamid emphasised that his comment was the… Read More
The gridlock around Lagos ports that brought the economy to a near standstill underscores the importance of developing other ports in the country, Anna Okon writes Lagos ports In 2018 the government intensified efforts to rehabilitate the access roads leading to Lagos ports. The deplorable roads leading to the Lagos Port Complex and the Tin… Read More