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The IEmotions ran high at a public meeting in West Bay on Tuesday, when district residents met with the owner of Calico Jack’s beach bar and begged him to pull his application to dredge an area in Barkers that would remove more than four acres of turtle grass. Many of the people who attended told… Read More
Residents of Queens Creek will finally get some relief from the shoaling that has plagued boaters on the creek for years. Queens Creek residents Chris and Bill Burry said in an e-mail that the dredge Grace II, which is owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor Southern Maryland Dredging Company, anchored inside Cow Point… Read More
WARRENPOINT Port says will no longer pursue proposals to change how it deals with dredged material. Authorities had been considering the feasibility of a new placement site in the mouth of Carlingford Lough between Cranfield Point and Greencastle, but the plans will not now proceed following the initial findings of site surveys. Port chief executive… Read More
More than 1.3 million cubic yards of sand will be moved onto beaches in Cape Canaveral from Jetty Park to the Cocoa Beach Pier over the next five months. The work pumping sand from the shoreline began this week, kicking off the 3.5-mile sand bypass project– the largest in the Port Canaveral area history. The… Read More
Five years after the 2013 floods devastated the Loveland area, crews are still dealing with indirect effects of the floodwaters. One of those effects is particularly abrasive — the amounts of sand and detritus that have ended up in Lake Loveland. Crews from local company Coulson Excavating are working on the lake bed this month… Read More
SMD-Invest has started dredging works at the Kherson maritime merchandise port as a winner of the tender of the Kherson branch of state-owned enterprise (SOE) Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. “The last time the operational dredging in the port of Kherson was carried out seven years ago – in 2005-2011: then the total volume was less… Read More
The Governor administration has ordered dredging of the flood spill channel that spans a vast area from Padshahibagh to far ends of the city in north Kashmir. The devastating floods in 2014 and the subsequent expert warnings about poor preparedness against future calamities had not prompt any action from the authorities for past four years…. Read More
After removing 2.65 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the Upper Hudson River, General Electric insists its work is over. But an analysis of samples collected after the cleanup may bring the company back to the river. Since 2009, GE has been forced to spend billions of dollars to remove the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)… Read More
Frequent cold fronts are pushing back a badly needed beach re-nourishment project on Lido Key. The beach is critically eroded, and in some areas, buildings are in the water. “We’re not pumping today. The pipe on the beach is secured from the weather,” says Curtis Huggins, Coastal Dredging Company, Inc. Another cold front moved in… Read More
The renourishment of Egmont Key’s critically-eroded beaches is at a standstill because the project resulted in the deaths of six sea turtles, the maximum allowed. The $10 million project, which began last month and was suspended on Dec. 2, is expected to resume in late spring or early summer, before hurricane season, said Susan Jackson,… Read More
The last time the South Benson Marina Channel was dredged was in 2013, a year after Superstorm Sandy hit. But that was an isolated section at the pinch point across from St. Mary’s in Bridgeport, according to Public Works Director Joe Michelangelo, and for some boat owners, it’s time for the channel to be dredged… Read More
In one week, Petaluma saw three separate newsworthy events, each offering a different set of implications for city residents on long running issues. First, there was the revelation that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not budget the Petaluma River dredging project into its 2019 work plan. Then, on Dec. 1, an environmental group… Read More
The Port of Baltimore is on a roll. In its 2018 financial year the port came very close to handling 1M TEU in a year for the first time, processing 998,516 TEU. Baltimore has been steadily on the way to the 1M TEU mark for some time, with annual growth averaging almost 5% from 2003… Read More
Mayor Cantrell celebrates the funding of the New Orleans Landbridge Shoreline Stabilization and Marsh Creation project intended to help create marshland and stabilize the area around the New Orleans East Landbridge. The coastal restoration project has been granted funding through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA). This federal program provides funds for… Read More
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is providing Port St. Joe commissioners no real choice. The city will move ahead with biological dredging of the wastewater lagoon after the first of the year, aiming to avoid fines for violating a Consent Order with the FDEP. The city must start the work by Feb. 24 under… Read More