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Important dredging work at Hafan Pwllheli marina in North Wales has been scheduled for 2018. The plan to dredge the harbour entrance and the main channel to maintain its design depth has already been agreed. Work on clearing the entrance of silt using land-based machinery will start on 9th April. This is expected to take… Read More
With decades of research, planning and negotiation ahead, Del Mar has begun formulating its strategies for counteracting sea-level rise by spreading sand on the city’s beaches. The city’s Sea-Level Rise Stakeholder-Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) took its first tentative steps last week in setting Del Mar on a course that will focus on expanded dredging of… Read More
Think of it as Ocean City’s little brother – a 133-acre island sitting in the middle of the back bay, just across a narrow channel. Shooting Island, as it is known, is an uninhabited flat land mass under threat from erosion. Among other places, it is visible from Ocean City by peering out over the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed the construction of a 97-million-gallon drinking water reservoir Savannah will need as a result of harbor deepening. The $43.5 million structure that sits between I-95 and Ga. 21 near Port Wentworth’s Rice Hope neighborhood is now being tested. “We’re filling it and dropping it, filling and dropping,”… Read More
The new head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, R.D. James, got a firsthand look at the damage sustained to the coastline following a series of nor’easters this month as he toured Delaware beaches on Tuesday, March 27, with U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.). James, whose official title is Assistant Secretary of the Army… Read More
Tests into the sediment and mud set to be dumped from Hinkley Point is safe, officials have said. As previously reported, the energy giant behind the Hinkley Point C development in Bridgwater obtained a marine licence to dump up to 300,000 cubic metres of dredged material in the Bristol Channel – just a mile off… Read More
Though only two years away from a state-imposed deadline to stop open-lake disposal of dredged material, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proceeding as usual this summer with plans to put just as much silt as it normally digs out of the Toledo shipping channel into the open water of western Lake Erie’s North… Read More
A geotechnical study is expected to further Fenwick Island’s efforts to secure a dredging project in the Little Assawoman Bay. Last Friday, the Fenwick Island Town Council unanimously approved a request from the town’s Dredging Committee to fund a geotechnical study of the Little Assawoman Bay. Councilman Bernie Merritt, chair of the committee, told the… Read More
A dredging project in Grand Traverse Bay Harbor in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has received final approvals from government regulatory agencies. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says dredging is expected to start in May and is part of efforts to save Buffalo Reef off Gay, northwest of Marquette. The state says stamp sands created in… Read More
The go-ahead has been given for a €20m extension to the pier at Dinish Island in Castletownbere, which will deliver many more jobs to the area. Local Cllr Patrick Gerard Murphy (FF) and fishing industry chief, John Nolan, said the project, which will double the size of the pier, will bring prosperity to the region…. Read More
On March 15, Gov. Greg Abbott announced authorization of about $5 million in initial funding for flood control projects to support the Kingwood area. Abbott announced that $3 million in funding has been preapproved to cover engineering and permitting costs of dredging the San Jacinto River basin, according to a press release. The state also… Read More
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey has put before the chiefs and people of Tema Traditional Area four developmental projects, which he believes, will transform the area. Among them is the dredging of the Sakumono Lagoon, which will help preserve the Lagoon and improve fish production in the Lagoon. Mr. Ashitey said this when… Read More
The sights and sounds of the dredging barge at Lake Decatur will soon be gone. “We’re ahead of schedule, should be finished by this summer.” It was an ambitious, $90-million project to increase the capacity of the lake. City leaders and those who live along the waterfront say it was long overdue. People we talked… Read More
Ferry runs between Hatteras and Ocracoke Island are being adjusted to help with an emergency dredging effort. A news release from the N.C. Department of Transportation says there are concerns about shoaling at the northern end of Ocracoke Island. The adjusted schedules take effect Friday and will continue until dredging is complete. Ferries will leave… Read More
The battle to reclaim St. John’s Marsh from invasive species is set to continue this spring with a new project aimed at improving water flow to a nearly 300-acre section of the marsh. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has requested approval to construct a temporary road through St. John’s Marsh to improve access to… Read More