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As city officials continue moving forward with the Adrian’s Island riverfront project, several items — like permits — still need to be nailed down before construction. The Jefferson City Housing Authority, which owns Adrian’s Island, approved Jefferson City’s license request last Tuesday, allowing the city to send workers to the island to remove brush and… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to conduct Grays Harbor maintenance dredging in the Outer Harbor beginning April 19 with two Corps hopper dredge vessels, Essayons and Yaquina. The Yaquina will begin April 19 and will dredge through approximately April 22. Dredging will occur in shoaled areas of Pt. Chehalis reach. The goal is… Read More
A main supply used in Ocean City’s beach replenishment project is running out. Now, officials say they’re weighing their options and looking into *outside resources* to preserve this important program, that’s prevented more than $900 million in storm damage. “We’ve used those areas so until they build up again they’re looking for additional areas,” said… Read More
Some people living in Garden City and Murrells Inlet will soon vote on a project to dig up a channel. A Georgetown County spokesperson says voters along that channel will decide on a tax referendum on Tuesday, May 29. When News13 reported on this story last month, residents and businesses said the channel is usually… Read More
Funding to dredge Hampton Harbor could come in 2019, a top Army Corps of Engineers official told U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in an appropriations hearing Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, chief of engineers and commanding general of the corps, said approximately $275,000 for designs for the harbor’s dredging could be secured this year. Approximately $4… Read More
A scheduled dredging of the Oceanside Harbor to remove built-up sand and help provide safer boating has been delayed. The city expected dredging to begin in mid-April, a process overseen by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Two weeks ago, the city was notified that operations could be pushed back another month, with a… Read More
Through out the years, the Destin pass has shrunk causing safety concerns for boaters. “When the pass itself, or the bar I should say, is compromised by being shallow and not having enough depth, any sea out of the south quadrant and wind out of the south creates a dangerous situation,” District 5 Okaloosa County… Read More
The dredging of The Entrance Channel is underway, according to Central Coast Council’s Director of Assets and Infrastructure, Mr Mike Dowling. Mr Dowling said the dredging program is carried out to maintain tidal exchange between the ocean and the estuary. “Council must balance the delicate environment of The Entrance Channel while enhancing navigation of the… Read More
Dredging of a 15-mile stretch of the Indian River Lagoon from Sebastian to Palm Bay is on the horizon. If a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is issued, the Florida Inland Navigation District could begin construction on a dredge material storage area in about a year. It would take another year to… Read More
Santa Barbara County Flood Control continues its emergency response to the January debris flows with hydraulic dredging of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve. The dredging is an effort to relieve 20,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Salt Marsh deposited either naturally via the Franklin and Santa Monica Creeks during the heavy rains, or by… Read More
A proposed $425 million San Francisco bond measure to kick-start vital repairs to the city’s fragile Embarcadero seawall cleared an important hurdle Monday, pushing it closer to a spot on the November ballot. Citing an urgent need to make the crumbling seawall more resilient to earthquakes and the effects of sea-level rise, the city’s Capital… Read More
Refining NZ wants to deepen the channel into Whangarei Harbour so larger oil tankers can visit the refinery fully loaded. The application by Refining NZ for a resource consent to deepen the channel has attracted more submissions opposed to the plan than those in support. Refining NZ wants to dredge the channel so larger oil… Read More
Relief is coming for Moriches Inlet. On Tuesday morning, U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin announced that his request for emergency dredging of the inlet had been approved, though an exact date for the work has not yet been nailed down. In a release sent out on Tuesday, he noted that Colonel Thomas Asbery, the New York… Read More
Dredging works at the Sigatoka and Penang rivers will start as soon as tenders are awarded. Also on the Ministry of Waterways priority list is the Navua River bank protection works for Vunibau Village. The two Government-owned dredgers are out of service. Both are 40 years old. $3 million has been allocated to purchase new… Read More
Four years. That’s the Port of Corpus Christi’s ambitious goal for dredging 36 miles of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, starting from the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico all the way up to the Viola Channel near Flint Hills Resources. The dredging is part of the port’s nearly three-decade long effort to deepen and… Read More