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Marine construction crews began work over the last several days on one of several dredging projects that will keep several channels in northern Barnegat Bay open to boat traffic. Most visible is the large barge that anchored up just off Bayside Park, along Route 35 south in Brick Township’s Normandy Beach neighborhood over the past… Read More
A $1.09 million dredging project near the mouth of the Vinton Navigation Channel was completed last month, Port of Vinton officials said. The Mandeville-based contractor, Magnolia Dredging, removed more than 21,400 cubic yards of spoils over more than a five-month period. The work brought the depth of the channel where it enters into the Gulf… Read More
Funding of approximately €9 million has been provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW) for measures to alleviate the risk of flooding on the River Shannon. The funding was announced yesterday (Monday, November 6) by the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran. Minister Moran was… Read More
State Senator Patty Ritchie was greeted by Fulton Mayor Ron Woodward Sr on Monday to address the team of operators overseeing the development of a $200,000 dredge along C.C. Barrett Drive to clean Lake Neatahwanta and make it usable to the public. Woodward used the brief Nov. 5 press conference to personally thank Ritchie for… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will work next year with a private contractor to dredge sand and silt from Cape Porpoise Harbor, improving marine navigation off the eastern shore of Kennebunkport. The $2.5 million project is expected to take between one and three months and to be conducted between Nov. 1, 2019 and March… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is supplying the weapons in the only battle Fort Dade has ever seen – the one against erosion. Historic Egmont Key is slated to receive sand to shore up what’s left of the 1899 fort when the Tampa Bay shipping channel is dredged for maintenance beginning this month. The… Read More
By a margin of 2,726 to 1,048, voters Tuesday approved borrowing $1.1 million for an early stage of the Nauset Beach Retreat Master Plan, with the remaining $100,000 to come from the town’s free cash. The emphatic endorsement means that the town will enhance the dune protecting its buildings and parking lot from the Atlantic… Read More
Napier Port, located in New Zealand, has announced that an application to expand its container terminal and carry out further dredging has been approved By building a new wharf, Napier Port expects more ships to visit, larger ships to berth, and the congestion caused by increasing cargo volumes to be alleviated. In addition to this,… Read More
Buyout firm Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) and privately held LLOG Exploration Company are working with an investment bank to sell their Gulf of Mexico oil exploration joint venture for more than $2 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The attempted divestment is the latest to emerge from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico,… Read More
Maintenance dredging of the Cape Porpoise Harbor federal navigation project in Kennebunkport will be performed during 2019 and 2020. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, a private contractor will employ a mechanical dredge and scows to remove material and then take it to either the Cape Arundel Disposal Site or… Read More
The biggest groundbreaking in town history splashed through several feet of water before hitting pay dirt Wednesday as the long-awaited dredging of Plymouth Harbor began. Working off the end of the jetty, a crew from Burnham Associates hauled the first of what will be thousands of buckets of sand, silt and mud from the harbor’s… Read More
The beach along the center of Marco Island is due to be reshaped. Over a mile of Gulf of Mexico frontage will be part of a massive regrading project being undertaken by Collier County government. Over 170,000 cubic yards of sand will be shifted, after being dredged from the inter-tidal zone just offshore from the… 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
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
Marine construction crews began work over the last several days on one of several dredging projects that will keep Brick’s waterways open to boat traffic. Most visible is the large barge that anchored up just off Bayside Park in the township’s Normandy Beach neighborhood over the past several days. There, the contractor for the state… Read More