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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and representatives from Pinellas County will host a public meeting on an upcoming beach nourishment project Wednesday, March 28, 6-7:30 p.m., at the Indian Shores Municipal Center, 19305 Gulf Blvd.. The meeting will provide an overview of the upcoming Sand Key and Treasure Island beach renourishment project scheduled to… Read More
Crews began dredging Knapps Narrows near Tilghman Island this past weekend as part of maintenance dredging being overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District to ensure continued safe navigation along the federal channel. The Knapps Narrows Federal Navigation Channel is important to the local economy and is used heavily by watermen and… Read More
State Sen. Dan Laughlin loves Presque Isle State Park, but don’t get him started on the “rock piles.” Laughlin, of Millcreek Township, R-49th Dist., knows the system of 55 breakwaters — many mistakenly refer to them as break walls — on the Lake Erie side of the peninsula has helped reduce beach sand erosion by… Read More
In 2017, Avalon had its largest beach replenishment, over 1 million cubic yards of sand. March 2018 with its seemingly back-to-back nor’easters has once again left the borough with a need to move sand from more southern beaches to its troubled north end. It is a process everyone knows will be needed on a continuing… Read More
A complaint with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection regarding Crystal Lake has been dealt with, according to city officials. But another, separate issue regarding the dredging project is ongoing. “All I can tell you is there is an ongoing enforcement matter regarding the disposal of the sediment from the dredging project at a landfill,”… Read More
The saga of the Carolina Beach Lake continues. After months and months of dredging, followed by returning dredged dirt to the lake, is it even going to happen at all? Carolina Beach Mayor Joe Benson says the town will explore the issue again at its April 24 Town Workshop. He says the public wants the… Read More
After months of lobbying state legislators and Cabinet members, the city of Tarpon Springs has received $676,046 to help fund the dredging of the Anclote River. Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Friday, March 16, to provide funding for the Anclote River Dredge Project, which Tarpon Springs officials argue is necessary for the survival of… Read More
Andrei Tarasenko, Acting Governor of the Primorsky Territory, and Jorge Delgado, Vice President of Business Development, Global Government and Community Relations, Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD. have met today, 20 March 2018, to discuss the forthcoming calls of the cruise company’s ships to the port of Vladivostok, says press center of the regional government. According to… Read More
One of the initial issues the December 2015 flood caused for the George W. Andrews lock near Columbia has been addressed, but other problems still remain. According to Tim Oberle, a deputy public affairs officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mobile office, the flood deposited large amounts of sediment into the lock chamber,… Read More
The private multi-port operator, Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Ltd (AVPPL), tasked to build the superstructure and operate the country’s first international multi-purpose deepwater seaport project at Vizhinjam has approached Vizhinjam International Seaport Ltd. (VISL) for seeking more time for commissioning the Phase I. Citing the damage to the two heavy duty dredgers, access road-cum-shore protection… Read More
Nags Head will have to wait a year to add more sand to the town’s 10 miles of shoreline, but the job can be done next summer by tweaking the numbers to stick to a $34 million budget. The town opened bids on Thursday from four companies, each with proposals for this year and next…. Read More
Beach lovers are in for a pleasant surprise with significant improvement in the shoreline near the INS Kursura Submarine Museum. Thanks to the annual beach nourishment project taken by the Visakhapatnam Port Trust, the Dredging Corporation of India deployed its dredger near the museum to pump sand from the ‘Sand Trap’ built near the Dolphin’s… Read More
The head of the Central Coast’s peak environment body has slammed calls for dredging of Ettalong channel as ill-considered amateurism with no scientific or engineering basis. Community Environment Network chairman John Asquith said there was a real danger that some of the schemes to dredge the channel and combat ongoing erosion of Ocean Beach would… Read More
Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) was joined by local elected officials, small business owners, boaters, fishermen, and other stakeholders at the Moriches Yacht Club in Center Moriches, calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to undertake an immediate emergency dredging of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway, Moriches Bay and Moriches Inlet in light of several… Read More
France’s Port of Dunkirk will receive a new gantry crane in May 2018 as part of its Flanders Terminal expansion project. Shortly after receiving the crane the facility will begin dredging to a depth of 16.5 m, with the deepening expected to be finished by the end of autumn. A total of 4m m3 of… Read More