The plans to proceed with a proposed project for Lake Redstone have been put on hold for now. Upon further review of the bids for a proposed project to dredge sentiment from 26 bays at Lake Redstone, the board unanimously decided to reject the bids. The board will also consult with legal counsel and adviser… Read More
Anaklia Port is set to enter a new important stage of its construction. In August 2018, Georgia will witness an unprecedented scale of marine engineering works in the country’s history, as the marine works for dredging and reclamation at Phase 1 Anaklia Deep Sea Port project will begin. After a long and tough selection process,… Read More
In anticipation of heavy rainfall that could trigger flash floods in the low-lying villages of Solsona, Ilocos Norte, the local government unit (LGU) has initiated dredging of silted rivers and creeks. On Friday, some LGU personnel who know how to operate a backhoe, worked with Mayor Alexander Calucag’s supervision to strengthen the flood control dike… Read More
The Little Blue Natural Resources District would collect $8 million in property tax revenue to support a $4.7 million budget of spending and saving for the new fiscal year under a budget proposal presented here Tuesday. Meeting in Davenport for their monthly meeting, LBNRD directors voted 16-0 to advance the proposed budget for fiscal 2018-19… Read More
It’s about a million dollars for every 100,000 cubic yards? Lake Contrary has seen better days — much better days. Now you hardly find where the beach ends and the middle of the lake begins. It was more like an amusement park than a lake in its prime. It was the place to go during… Read More
Missouri American Water uses Shoal Creek as it’s water source, treating what it pulls from the creek to remove dirt, which ends up in lagoons. Right now crews are cleaning out thirty thousand cubic yards of it. It’s a massive operation and the water waste is actually being put to work. South Joplin residents have… Read More
Town leaders have revived the lake dredging project for Carolina Beach lake hoping to take dredged material across Snows Cut. It comes as the project has sat stagnant for nine months. The council unanimously approved to continue the lake dredging. The town wants to begin as soon as possible, but they still have to get… Read More
Officials say the unsightly material found along the shoreline on an Ocean County beach Thursday is harmless. As part of a 14-mile beach fill and dune construction project along the northern Ocean County coast, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dredging and pumping sand in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River on Thursday…. Read More
An escalation in the legal battle over sand. The group ‘Save Our Siesta Sand’ is not giving up its fight against dredging Siesta Key’s Big Pass to help re-nourish Lido Beach. Now, they’re taking the fight to the federal level. “Once you dredge a channel, you’re in for trouble,” Said Peter van Roekens, who is… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reconstructing a sand dune in Willapa Bay near the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation in order to restore flood protection. The $19.9 million federally-funded dune repair project is designed to provide coastal storm damage protection and is intended to protect the Shoalwater Bay Tribal community. Crews from the Manson… Read More
Town Council decides to finish project to deepen lake CAROLINA BEACH — The town may resume its stalled project to dredge the bottom of Carolina Beach Lake after the town council decided Tuesday night to finish the job. “I personally want to see the full dredge,” Mayor Pro Tem Leann Pierce said before the council… Read More
For months, the city had been looking for a solution, hiring FYRA Engineering to help with the growing algae. “You’re never going to get rid of it completely, virtual impossibility, but we can make it better,” Mitchell resident Carl Koch said. Koch has lived on Lake Mitchell for more than 15 years. He said the… Read More
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has recently granted a permit to dredge Big Pass – continuing the four-year battle over sand. The dredging is part of a Lido Key shoreline re-nourishment project, which aims to replenish 1.6 miles of the Lido Key with sand from Big Pass. Although the project is backed by the… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) says it received a $69.8M contract award to restore a two-mile stretch of the San Jacinto River, in the first major Houston-area flood control project after Hurricane Harvey. GLDD says its Rivers and Lakes division will work with the Galveston District to dredge 1.8M cubic yards of material and… Read More
Anglers at Kingwood’s River Grove Park couldn’t see the opposite bank of the San Jacinto River as they cast their lines into its murky water one recent morning. The view was obscured by a wall of sand pushed into the Texas channel some 10 months earlier by Hurricane Harvey. The Houston Chronicle reports aerial photographs… Read More