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A federal agency says a current Santa Rosa County proposal to dredge channels in Santa Rosa Sound to give nearby residents better boat access fails to meet environmental standards. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued its opinion in an eight-page letter sent to the county earlier this month. It marks the latest chapter in… Read More
Temporary dredging around Tenby harbour area has been agreed following concerns raised by local councillors over the high level of sandbanks that have formed. Local councillors also heard this week how a general spruce-up of the harbour area is also in the pipeline, with a ‘comprehensive clean-up’ planned and procedures put in place to ensure… Read More
The town advisory board approved two actions related to the lagoon project in a special meeting May. The board approved recommending public works and other required departments negotiate with Technology Construction, Inc., for the additive bid of the total project for the Laughlin Lagoon Special Improvement District, which needs to be completed by Dec. 31…. Read More
The City of Saco and a number of coastal residents will need to sign off on a beach management agreement to protect piping plovers and other threatened and endangered birds before the city can receive sand from an upcoming Saco River dredging project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to start work in… Read More
Dredging was at the top of the list of community concerns at Kingston District Council’s forum last week. Kingston District Council CEO Andrew MacDonald explained what the requirements will be during the dredging process and what the council plan will entail. “There is a requirement for the dredging activity to basically mirror what Mother Nature… Read More
People who live along a shallow channel voted down a plan to dredge that waterway. Twenty out of 29, or about 69 percent, of voters said no to a tax referendum, according to unofficial results from Georgetown County. The county’s election board says the results will be certified at 10 a.m. on Thursday. The tax… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $100 million agreement with National Grid for cleanup of the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York. The milestone settlement will support cleanup work near the head of the Gowanus Canal, including the cleanup and restoration of Thomas Greene Park, as well as the Douglass and… Read More
Funding to develop designs for a new coastal defence scheme which could protect homes from flooding and erosion in Langstone has been secured. The Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership (ESCP), on behalf of Havant Borough Council (HBC), has secured £376,000 made up from a Defra Grant in Aid and the HBC Community Infrastructure Levy. The outline… Read More
It reads like the recipe for a lethal toxic soup: 400,000 pounds per day of suspended solids, 70,000 pounds per day of oil and grease, 9,000 pounds per day of ammonia-nitrogen, 500 pounds a day of cyanide, 600 pounds a day of phenols (carbon acids), and 800 pounds per day of zinc. Even more harrowing… Read More
Capital dredging of the River Karnaphuli is yet to start to restore the river’s depth up to four meters to facilitate vessel movement through those points where navigability fell drastically. On May 5, Chittagong Port Authority and Bangladesh Navy signed a contract for the dredging after more than five years of suspension of the work…. Read More
This January, Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito stood together to call on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) to expedite a permit to allow the town to dredge Sea Dog Creek to unclog access to the South Bay area and place the dredged material… Read More
The South Australian Government has today approved a plan to widen the Port Adelaide shipping channel and dump the dredged waste in Gulf St Vincent. The controversial Flinders Ports plan involves removing 1.5 million cubic metres of material from the Outer Harbor shipping channel before being disposed 30 kilometres offshore. Planning Minister Stephan Knoll said… Read More
The Town of Manteo, Dare County Board of Commissioners, Dare County Waterway Commission and Friends of the Elizabeth II have launched an effort to gain state funding for dredging the main boat channel into Shallowbag Bay. In a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper, Manteo Mayor Bobby Owens writes that keeping the channel to Manteo open… Read More
Work to boost environmentally important Bolinas Lagoon and surrounding roads has received an influx of cash from a state agency. The state’s Coastal Conservancy awarded $285,000 last week to the Marin County Open Space District to prepare construction plans, permit applications and environmental documents for the Bolinas Lagoon Wye Project. “We are excited that after… Read More
A consortium of western companies and Russia’s Gazprom that is due to build the controversial subsea Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany said on Tuesday it was starting preparatory work in the Greifswald bay off Germany’s Baltic coast. “Five dredgers are now working on the trench for the two pipeline strings,” the consortium, based… Read More