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The restoration of an illegally dredged and rerouted stream will cost more than $250,000, pushing the cumulative toll of the fiasco beyond $500,000. Radtke Contractors Inc. of Winneconne submitted a low bid of $258,576 for the restoration work. The Town Board is expected to award the contract Monday. The schedule calls for the restoration of… Read More
Efforts to dredge PCBs and other industrial chemicals from the Hudson River near a former Rensselaer dye factory under a $41 million cleanup project are expected to start this month. Expected to take three years, work at the former BASF facility on Riverside Avenue calls for removal of about 38,700 cubic yards of river bottom… Read More
In one of the more controversial votes members have cast over the past several years, the Wyandotte City Council has opted to put the brakes on a planned transient marina. During its June 4 meeting, Leo Stevenson, a member of the city’s Marina Committee, made what many on the council said was a convincing argument… Read More
Georgia state representative and St. Simons Island resident Jeff Jones says he is opposed to the Sea Island Co.’s plans to install a third rock groin as part of a plan to renourish Sea Island’s beach with 1.3 million cubic yards of sand. It started with a planned development of eight oceanfront homes on what… Read More
With slightly more than a week of work done, the dredging and beach-grooming crews are in the vicinity of the 600 block of Caswell Beach Road with fresh sand dredged from the shipping channel. Eric Price, spokesman for Weeks Marine Inc., said last week Tuesday a mechanical problem on the dredge stalled operations for about… Read More
Provincial Energy Ventures Ltd. is finally taking a step forward in its plans to expand its bulk material transshipment facility on Sydney harbour. A request for proposals has been issued by the company for dredging services with a deadline to submit proposals by June 28. It was in 2012 that Provincial Energy Ventures president Ernie… Read More
There is progress on a pilot beach replenishment project slated for Surfer’s Beach, but don’t expect to see any movement of sand until summer of 2019. Pillar Point Harbor has been plagued with erosion issues since the east breakwater was completed in 1961. The barrier disrupted the natural flow of sand, which piled up on… Read More
Disagreements between the federal and state governments could slow the planning and approval of a reservoir project expected to reduce releases to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers. Called the Everglades Agriculture Area, or EAA, reservoir, the $1.9 billion project is expected to store about 240,000 acre-feet of water that would typically be discharged from… Read More
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has approved the monitoring plan for the disposal of dredged material from the Hinkley Point C power station development site in the Bristol Channel into Welsh waters. NRW?said that this was the final condition within the marine licence that the licence holder had to meet before approval was given by NRW… Read More
Dane County launched its waterway cleanup effort Tuesday that will remove phosphorus-laden sludge from the bottom of creeks and streams to combat the toxic algae blooms fouling up the county’s lakes. The $12 million “Suck the Muck” project, overseen by the Land and Water Resources Department, will over the next four years dredge the bottom… Read More
Where will the dredged sand from the Mississippi River go? Seems like it would be a dredged materials placement facility or facilities in Wabasha, but that’s pending the outcome of a City Council meeting last Tuesday. The design or construction facility hasn’t happened yet. A city council meeting is scheduled for at City Hall as… Read More
Georgetown County voters on May 29 rejected an attempt to create a special tax district to dredge the main canal that runs from Marlin Quay Marina in Murrells Inlet to the causeway at Atlantic Avenue in Garden City. Only nine of the 29 ballots cast favored the establishment of the tax district. About 50 people… Read More
Contractors have submitted letters to Adnoc Sour Gas expressing their interest in three packages that form part of the UAE’s project to develop the Hail and Ghasha sour gas fields. Letters were submitted ahead of the deadline on 20 May, according to industry sources, as Adnoc prepares to tender three engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)… Read More
Livingston Parish officials have sued Ascension Parish to stop work on a levee project proposed by their neighboring parish until it can be determined how seriously the project would worsen flooding in their parish. In a new lawsuit, officials with Livingston Parish government and a southern Livingston drainage district contend the proposed extension of the… Read More
Complaining about government rules and regulations probably ranks near the top of many Americans’ favorite pastimes. Many of our friends and neighbors argue that it would be a lot easier to run a business or own a home if there was less government red tape. For years, Randolph residents have made that argument about flood-related… Read More