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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
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this month released a 45-page plan detailing a potential fix to the decades-old health hazard prevalent in fish at the Donna Lake. A 1,600-foot-long siphon built in 1926, which facilitates the movement of water underneath the Arroyo Colorado, may contain cancer-causing chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls which have been found in… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and International Paper have resolved an issue about pipelines under the Savannah River that the corps previously believed would have to be relocated ahead of harbor deepening. IP had already removed some of its piping and the company demonstrated that the remaining pipeline was buried deep enough that it… Read More
The Government of Saint Lucia through the Water and Sewage Company (WASCO), on May 21, held the ground breaking ceremony to signal commencement of works on the first phase of the John Compton Dam Rehabilitation Project. The desilting project will see the removal of approximately 1.5 million cubic meters of sediment from the reservoir. The… Read More
Coastal erosion is chewing away at one of the Northwest’s most popular recreation areas. It’s threatening the main campground and other amenities at Cape Disappointment State Park, which has the second most camper visits in the Washington State Park system. Darrel and Connie Newton of Vancouver, Washington, had advance warning of the shoreline erosion at… Read More
Gravel, sand and silt dredged from the bottom of the Buffalo River was once so toxic it had to be hauled off to a special site. But now, after a $75 million cleanup, sediment coming out of the river is healthy enough to be used to build a new habitat for fish, shorebirds, turtles and… Read More
On the day that tenders closed for the construction of a second cruise ship berth in Sydney, the lead engineer on the project provided an update on the $20-million project to the Port Days conference in Sydney. Richard Morykot of CBCL Ltd. said geotechnical work on the project has been completed, including marine and land… Read More