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The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that, in the “interest of the nation”, it will explore alternate routes for Sethusamudram Ship Channel project so that Ram Setu, the 50-km-long the chain of limestone shoals between India and Sri Lanka which holds religious significance for Hindus, is not touched. In an affidavit filed as… Read More
The state’s annual hearing about summer dredging will be at 6 p.m. March 29 in Toledo City Council Chambers. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to dredge 800,000 cubic yards of silt from Toledo’s shipping channel to keep it open for commerce this year. Toledo is the shallowest part of the Great Lakes navigational… Read More
An extensive beach nourishment project wrapped up this week as crews finished enlarging the beach near the Holiday Inn, Town Manager Tim Owens said. “They’ll be wrapping it up by Friday,” Owens said of the $9.4 million project, which added 750,000 cubic yards of sand to the town’s beach. Owens said federal funds paid for… Read More
The Broads Authority issued a notice saying that “rake/agitation dredging work” would be carried out by a contractor on behalf of the authority in the Lower Bure until March 29. “The work will be carried out at variable times, on the ebb tides between high slack water and low slack water during daylight hours,” the… Read More
The Harris County Flood Control District is planning to remove silt that has built up in four waterways that flow into the Addicks Reservoir so the channels can hold more stormwater. The $13.3 million project will remove approximately half a million cubic yards of sediment from the channels, which include Bear Creek, Horsepen Creek, Langham… Read More
The wheels are slowly grinding at the Mill Pond as the Lake Mills City Council voted to take no action on a dredging study grant during its March 6, meeting. City Manager Steve Wilke said a lot has changed at the Mill Pond since he arrived in Lake Mills. He said the city is going… Read More
The progress is, oh, so slow. One is speaking, of course, of Wahkiakum County’s effort to set up a program to nourish eroding beaches on Puget Island and Cape Horn. In response to queries from Island residents, Commissioner Dan Cothren on Tuesday reported a bit of progress on one of two fronts. First, the county’s… Read More
Dredging that raised fears 10,000 tonnes of silt and mud would be dumped on Teignmouth beach has been suspended until June after evidence was presented that dumped material was ending up on beaches. Back in August 2017, the Marine Maritime Organisation granted a marine licence to Exmouth Marina for maintenance dredging and disposal of 10,000… Read More
The town of Frisco is planning an overhaul of the Frisco Bay Marina, including a massive dredging project that would excavate tens of thousands of cubic yards of soil to expand the marina’s capacity, make way for bigger boats and extend the town’s boating season by at least a month. The project, coined the “Big… Read More
Construction is nearing completion of the restoration of Whiskey Island, which helps protect Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes from storm surge. “We waited a long time for this,” Terrebonne Parish President Gordy Dove said today. “We still have a lot of islands to do, though this will be here for a long time.” The barrier island,… Read More
Every five or six years, sand that has washed into the Kent Narrows channel over time becomes too high and needs to be dredged. The Queen Anne’s County commissioners recently voted unanimously in favor of entering an agreement for engineering services for Kent Narrows dredging with BayLand Consultants and Designers Inc. for $39,500. The engineering… Read More
Liberal and Labor councillors are claiming the moral high ground after a motion to take steps to purchase a “super dredge” was defeated at a council meeting on February 26. Liberal Cr Jilly Pilon has called on the Central Coast Council to take ownership, responsibility and action to fix Brisbane Water channel by buying the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed all its groins and jetties on the Long Beach shoreline, with plans for a quiet summer until work resumes in the fall. Workers finished the first eight jetties in September. The remaining seven jetties were finished in the past six months, spanning from Point Lookout to Long… Read More
Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB) has completed annual dredging, de-silting work of Nullahs and excavators were used to properly clear the Nullahs said Additional Cantonment Executive Officer (ACEO) Naveed Nawaz. Talking to APP he informed that the cleanup work of Nullahs, started last month has been completed. All available resources were utilized to save precious human… Read More
Every five or six years, sand that has washed into the Kent Narrows channel over time becomes too high and needs to be dredged. The Queen Anne’s County commissioners recently voted unanimously in favor of entering an agreement for engineering services for Kent Narrows dredging with BayLand Consultants and Designers Inc. for $39,500. The engineering… Read More