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One of the world’s largest dredges has arrived in Lyttelton to start deepening, widening and lengthening the port’s shipping channel as it prepares to welcome ever-larger ships. The 230m long dredge, Fairway, travelled from Mumbai, India, with a stop in Singapore for cleaning and anti-fouling. Lyttelton Port Company was granted resource consent in March to… Read More
Harris County voters appear to have accepted the $2.5 billion flood control bond, based on unofficial election results from Saturday. About 85 percent of vote tallied Saturday night showed the bond passing. Only 8 percent of the precincts were reporting, but the numbers were overwhelming. Out of 98,6729 votes, 84,282 (85 percent) voted in favor… Read More
Barnstable Town Council is scheduled to vote Sept. 6 on a $1 million appropriation to dredge the Cotuit Bay entrance channel. Cotuit Bay requires a three-phase dredging plan to keep it safe for boat navigation, Barnstable Town Manager Mark Ells told councilors at their Aug. 16 meeting. “The county dredge is ready to go as… Read More
Selectmen have given the go-ahead for dredging in Pleasant Bay adjacent to the south side of the 2007 inlet to make the channel safer for commercial fishermen and recreational boaters despite concerns from some nearby property owners about the possibility of increased erosion. Before the county dredge can begin deepening a portion of a channel… Read More
Seeking to accommodate the berthing of newer, Oasis-size ships at its dock, the West Indian Company (W.I.C.O.) on Tuesday announced that it has partnered with the Virgin Islands Port Authority for the submission of joint applications to the Department of Planning and Natural Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to dredge along W.I.C.O.’s… Read More
Permanent relief from the perennial erosion of Town Neck Beach is almost in sight. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers is seeking feedback about a sizeable dredging project proposed by the town of Sandwich that would use sand from a borrow site off Scusset Beach to replenish Town Neck Beach, according to a public notice… Read More
A new privately owned dredge is expected to keep the treacherous Oregon Inlet as deep as ever, clearing the way for larger boats to pass and adding about 2,000 jobs and $200 million to the local economy. Wanchese and Manteo could see a new influx of boating traffic and marine commerce. Rudee Inlet could get… Read More
The entrance of the Oceanside harbor, which missed its annual spring cleaning this year, will get a special dredging in October to keep the channel safe for navigation, federal officials announced Friday. Ocean waves and currents constantly push sand into the harbor, which requires periodic maintenance to stay open. A recent city survey showed the… Read More
The state Board of Public Works has approved grants to design shoreline restoration projects in Anne Arundel. Six Coastal Resiliency Program grants totaling $380,000 were awarded Wednesday, three of them in the county. All were for design work for the projects. Maryland’s coastline, including 520 miles of shoreline in Anne Arundel, experiences flooding and erosion,… Read More
An area along the coast is disappearing and is in desperate need of sand to be rebuilt. While another area is filling up with sand and potentially blocking boats from passing through the harbor. A project that would potentially fix the problem has been proposed but, keeps getting postponed. As the East Pass fills with… Read More
By removing the boards that hold together the dam at Lower Lake in Yaphank, the Town of Brookhaven officially began the process of draining and dredging the lake. Drainage is expected to continue through early winter. The removed boards allows for increased water flow from the lake into the Carmans River, which empties into the… Read More
The Ashland Water and Sewer District recently completed a project that rid its three wastewater treatment lagoons of 55 years of sludge. In February, district superintendent Frank Martin reported that the utility would do its first-ever full sludge removal, a process recommended every 20 years but which the town hadn’t done since the lagoons were… Read More
Like buses, good news comes along in twos for the port of Hamburg. It has finally received the go-ahead to begin dredging the River Elbe. The news came just 24 hours after it reported more dismal results, further volumes being lost to competitors Antwerp and Rotterdam. Chief executive Axel Mattern described the legal ruling as… Read More
The city of Port St. Joe and Florida Department of Environmental Protection have entered into a consent order outlining a plan to address issues with the city’s wastewater lagoon. The city will be fined $500 for regulatory violations over the years and provided a three-year period to attempt to address the problems through “biological dredging.”… Read More
The city’s new six-part plan to restore Sunset Beach Park on Oahu’s North Shore, following last winter’s severe erosion, is the first to take climate change into account, according to Jim Howe, director of the city’s Emergency Service Department. The Sunset Beach plan may serve as a model approach for other eroding shorelines on Oahu,… Read More