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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Feasibility Study, a report examining the possibility of constructing a coastal barrier of floodwalls along Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula to protect Texas’ coast, including the Bay Area. The 442-page study is a draft report on the feasibility and… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers has completed another season of dredging in the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, though a decision on where to store the most toxic sediments remains in limbo. Contractors working for the Army Corps finished dredging about 250,000 cubic yards of sediment from the federal and nonfederal channel Sept. 21, spokeswoman Vanessa… Read More
Plans are moving forward to construct a massive seawall and other coastal barriers to protect the Houston Ship Canal, Galveston Bay and port facilities that support that nation’s largest petrochemical hub from hurricane-driven storm surge. On Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Texas General Land Office announced the release of the Coastal Texas… Read More
The final round of Superfund dredging below the tide line in New Bedford Harbor is scheduled to be completed next year. Beginning in early 2019, dredging crews will make their final pass in the area from Riverside Park north to the Riverbank Lofts. Work will start between January and March, pending a final decision about… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told GreaterBabylon it has secured $26,222,000 for a restoration project that will add approximately 1.8 million cubic yards of sand from the Fire Island Inlet to Gilgo Beach. The additional sand will serve as coastal protection from storms. “The project will also benefit navigation within the Fire Island… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of engineers says roughly $66 million has been invested into dune and beach replenishment projects in Delaware since Hurricane Sandy. The corps says of that $66 million, Lewes received $3 million, Rehoboth and Dewey received $24 million, Bethany/South Bethany received $27 million and Fenwick Island received $12 million. The act of… Read More
Making the Grand River accessible to power boaters looking to travel from Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan would boost tourism in the region and generate an estimated annual economic impact of $5.7 million, according to a new study. The study, by East Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group, was conducted on behalf of Grand River Waterway, a… Read More
The sand dunes that used to line the western shoreline of Deal Island are almost all gone. So are the trees that stood behind them on this low-lying patch of land jutting into Tangier Sound on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. All that remains now are stumps poking up out of the waves, which wash over a… Read More
In a first step toward a new plan, the city and port authority of Wabasha sent a new dredge material management plan for Lower Pool 4 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The plan, said Wabasha City Administrator Chad Springer, includes the cost of moving 260,000 cubic feet of sand annually from temporary storage… Read More
A multi-million dollar project to dredge the St. Lawrence River at the Port of Ogdensburg and expand the terminal’s cargo capacity is inching forward, with fresh conversations involving city of Ogdensburg officials over how construction and other maritime disruptions will impact residents and nearby municipal properties. Ogdensburg City Council was given an update on the… Read More
The big container ships and tankers will move in and out of Unalaska easier if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasts and scoops 16 feet from the bottom near the Dutch Harbor Spit in a proposed $29 million project that’s at least four years away. And bigger ships will be coming, even though that’s… Read More
In the third year of dredging Lake Neatahwanta, Fulton Mayor Ronald Woodward Sr. said that the process will move along “much faster” now as new equipment and training has been secured. The city of Fulton purchased a dredge from Groh Dredging, the contractor that had been performing the dredging in the first years of the… Read More
The Newport Beach City Council agreed Tuesday to spend up to about $1.5 million to dredge the northerly stretch of the narrow waterway that separates Balboa Island’s main and “little” sides — plus the small channel around the Harbor Island bridge to Balboa Island’s northwest. Associated Pacific Constructors Inc. of Morro Bay will get the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has begun dredging a sand bar at the entrance to the Oceanside Harbor in San Diego. The project was delayed nearly six months after it was scheduled to begin due to a lack of permit. According to the San Diego Union Tribune, the goal of the annual spring… Read More
A massive construction and expansion project completed at the Fairview Container Terminal in Prince Rupert, B.C., is in the spotlight and three companies that worked on the ambitious venture have won silver Vancouver Regional Construction Association (VRCA) 2018 Awards of Excellence. Maksim Mihic, general manager of DP World (Canada) Inc. which operates the terminal, said… Read More