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It’s been revealed the cost for emergency dredging at the Ettalong Channel has more than doubled. Lands Minister, Paul Toole has signed off on the $660,000 contract. That’s a whopping $410,000 extra on what was pledged earlier this month. Around 20,000 cubic metres of sand will be removed in the operation, hoped to allow safe… Read More
For the first time since the 1970’s, the city of Norfolk is considering dredging The Hague inlet. Crews are collecting soil samples from The Hague waterway for a potential dredging project. Public Works Assistant Director, Trista Fayton said it’s the preliminary stage to possibly remove 15,000 cubic yards of sediment in the waterway. “It’s very… Read More
The state has issued Sarasota a permit to conduct a renourishment project of critically eroded Lido Beach over the objections of Siesta Key residents. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection on Monday granted the city a permit it needs to dredge up to 1.3 million cubic yards of sand from Big Pass to rebuild parts… Read More
Maintenance dredging at Fremantle’s Success and Parmelia channels is due to commence later this month. According to a statement from the Port of Fremantle, the campaign is to remove about 80,000 cubic metres of sediment from five areas in the channels. This dredging project is part of the Port’s long-term maintenance dredging strategy, approved by… Read More
The Department of Transport and City of Mandurah will this week start earthworks to dredge sand from Mandurah Ocean Entrance and widen Town Beach. The project will operate at a cost of $1.25 million and is undertaken to improve access during summer months. As such, work will be undertaken from Monday to Friday during daylight… Read More
More than 150 area residents, most of whom suffered major flood damage as a result of Hurricane Harvey, crowded into the large public room of the Kingwood Community Center Monday, June 11, for an update and description of the dredging project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project is about to get underway… Read More
Virginia’s U.S. senators say nearly $56 million in new federal funding has been allocated for water infrastructure improvements in Hampton Roads, Richmond and on the Eastern Shore. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced the $55.99 million in funding Wednesday. The money is provided by Congress to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for ongoing… Read More
Property owners on Pawleys Island will be asked to decide this month how much sand they want on the beach from a nourishment project that could start as early as November. The town received bids from three firms to pump between 700,000 and 1.1 million cubic yards of offshore sand onto 2.6 miles of beach… Read More
Tourists and workers travelling to popular tourist destination Plantation Island, Fiji, are set to benefit from safer access when marine channel dredging is completed at the end of June 2018. The works — which are being undertaken by Australian dredging and civil construction company Hall Pacific — began in early June and are expected to… Read More
Just over $136 million was recently awarded to the Army Corps of Engineers’ New Orleans District to pay for operation and maintenance work along the Calcasieu Ship Channel. Of the total, $103 million was part of this year’s Bipartisan Budget Act, with the remaining $33 million coming from the federal budget process, said Channing Hayden,… Read More
The stalled mechanical dredging of the Azhikkal Port channel here has resumed nearly a year after the much-awaited dredging work formally got under way in August last year when Ports Minister Kadannappally Ramachandran flagged off the operation of the cutter-suction dredger, CSD Chandragiri. The operation of the dredger was to have begun after its formal… Read More
Residents are invited to comment through July 12 on Truro’s request for a federal permit for maintenance dredging of the Pamet River boat channel, according to a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As part of the project, dredged sand would be used for beach nourishment north of the mouth of the channel,… Read More
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will begin dredging Buckeye Lake to the joy of many nearby residents. Buckeye Lake has long been in need of dredging, said ODNR spokesman Matt Eiselstein, but no part of the lake more than its east end. The shallow water hinders boat traffic and other water activities. Moreover, the… Read More
The South Carolina Ports Authority said it has received $49 million in federal funding for the Charleston Harbor Deepening Project. Allocated under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fiscal Year 18 Work Plan, the funds are “critical” to keeping the project to dredge the Port of Charleston to 52 feet on track and on schedule,… Read More
A meeting has been called to urgently look at dredging options for Tenby, following concerns raised by the Harbour Users Association over ‘broken promises’ from Pembrokeshire County Council, despite claims that a plan had been agreed by the authority. Correspondence recently came before members of Tenby Town Council, from county councillor for Tenby’s north ward,… Read More