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Remember last year, when beach replenishment efforts took place during the summer, closing portions of the beach at a time? That’s going to happen again. The State Department of Environmental Protection and the Army Corps of Engineering have given local towns a schedule for when the beach replenishment is going to take place. However, they… Read More
Northland hapu Patuharakeke is trying to stop Refining NZ from securing consent to dredge 3.7 million cubic metres of sediment from the entrance of Whangarei Harbour. The company wants to ensure fully-laden oil tankers can berth at Poupouwhenua -Marsden Point. Lawyer Kelly Dixon says the Pataharekeke Trust Board is concerned about its ability to exercise… Read More
The long-awaited dredging of Big Fishweir Creek has inched forward with the approval by the City of Jacksonville Waterways Commission of an ordinance to authorize a partnership between the City and the Army Corps of Engineers. Under the partnership, the city would fund 35 percent of the $6.5 million project that would be undertaken by… Read More
Houston and Harris County officials are pursuing the removal of sediment from the San Jacinto River as a “top priority,” citing an urgent need to protect communities near Lake Houston from a repeat of the calamitous flooding they endured during Hurricane Harvey. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said he has spoken to state officials about… Read More
As the U.S. is increasingly turning to public-private partnerships (P3s) to advance infrastructure projects, Skanska is emerging as an important player in this arena. P3s allow private companies to work with local governments and complete projects in a quicker and less expensive way, according to the Trump administration. Michael Brown, executive vice president & general… Read More
By Jo Ann Sablad THE chairman of the committee on social services has proposed the creation of a technical working group (TWG) in relation to the planned dredging operation of the Cagayan River. On Monday’s Cagayan de Oro City Council session, Councilor Reuben Daba said the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has given… Read More
Dredging the mouth of the Thames River has again become an issue for local municipalities. Chatham-Kent Mayor Randy Hope and Lakeshore Mayor Tom Bain are pressuring the federal and provincial governments to do something to clean out the river’s mouth at Lighthouse Cove. Hope said flood damage at Thamesville and Chatham could have been more… Read More
The dredge comes, and the dredge goes. A month after a contractor began scooping the bottom of the St. Johns River for a deepening project that was years in the making, the dredging barge is nowhere to be seen. The contractor has moved the equipment to a job elsewhere, temporarily halting the deepening in Jacksonville…. Read More
The South Carolina congressional delegation has written a letter to the U.S. Army Corps Commanding General to ask for more funding for the Charleston Harbor deepening project. The state funded $300 million of the project, which leaves the project $229 million short of the anticipated amount needed to fund the entire project. Lawmakers ask for… Read More
The severely eroded public beach on Glades and Surfside roads could soon get an infusion of sand, gravel and cobble brought from New Hampshire and Maine if Scituate is awarded a massive federal grant. The nourishment project would give the Minot section of town a beach at high tide for the first time in decades…. Read More
The town on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Supervisor Mike Woods and a contractor in relation to an illegally dredged navigable stream and reported karst feature on farmland Woods rents — an action for which the town is now paying. The town is requesting a jury trial and seeking compensatory and punitive damages, restitution, costs,… Read More
People who live along a channel in Murrells Inlet and Garden City Beach will have to decide if they want to pay to deepen their waterway. While low tide is the toughest time for most boats to pass through the channel, residents and business owners say it’s almost always too shallow and they think it… Read More
Jupiter Beach Park is getting wider, and the Jupiter Inlet is getting deeper. Dredging in the Jupiter Inlet is expected to start later this week to scoop about 60,000 cubic yards of sand — about 3,300 dump-truck loads — from the man-made lane for boaters in the inlet, called the sand trap. The lane at… Read More
The Governor and Executive Council on Wednesday are expected to approve $18.5 million in federal funds to replace a barge wharf that was removed to make room for the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge. The federal funds are proposed to pass through the state, to the Pease Development Authority’s Division of Ports and Harbors, for… Read More
Niagara, Orleans and two other Lake Ontario counties have decided to take charge of dredging of small-boat harbors along the lakeshore. The task is now in private or municipal hands, but the counties think they can do it more efficiently. The regional plan calls for retaining a contractor to make sure the harbors are deep… Read More