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Dredging the mouth of the Thames River has again become an issue for local municipalities. Chatham-Kent Mayor Randy Hope and Lakeshore Mayor Tom Bain are pressuring the federal and provincial governments to do something to clean out the river’s mouth at Lighthouse Cove. Hope said flood damage at Thamesville and Chatham could have been more… Read More
The dredge comes, and the dredge goes. A month after a contractor began scooping the bottom of the St. Johns River for a deepening project that was years in the making, the dredging barge is nowhere to be seen. The contractor has moved the equipment to a job elsewhere, temporarily halting the deepening in Jacksonville…. Read More
The South Carolina congressional delegation has written a letter to the U.S. Army Corps Commanding General to ask for more funding for the Charleston Harbor deepening project. The state funded $300 million of the project, which leaves the project $229 million short of the anticipated amount needed to fund the entire project. Lawmakers ask for… Read More
The severely eroded public beach on Glades and Surfside roads could soon get an infusion of sand, gravel and cobble brought from New Hampshire and Maine if Scituate is awarded a massive federal grant. The nourishment project would give the Minot section of town a beach at high tide for the first time in decades…. Read More
The town on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Supervisor Mike Woods and a contractor in relation to an illegally dredged navigable stream and reported karst feature on farmland Woods rents — an action for which the town is now paying. The town is requesting a jury trial and seeking compensatory and punitive damages, restitution, costs,… Read More
People who live along a channel in Murrells Inlet and Garden City Beach will have to decide if they want to pay to deepen their waterway. While low tide is the toughest time for most boats to pass through the channel, residents and business owners say it’s almost always too shallow and they think it… Read More
Jupiter Beach Park is getting wider, and the Jupiter Inlet is getting deeper. Dredging in the Jupiter Inlet is expected to start later this week to scoop about 60,000 cubic yards of sand — about 3,300 dump-truck loads — from the man-made lane for boaters in the inlet, called the sand trap. The lane at… Read More
The Governor and Executive Council on Wednesday are expected to approve $18.5 million in federal funds to replace a barge wharf that was removed to make room for the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge. The federal funds are proposed to pass through the state, to the Pease Development Authority’s Division of Ports and Harbors, for… Read More
Niagara, Orleans and two other Lake Ontario counties have decided to take charge of dredging of small-boat harbors along the lakeshore. The task is now in private or municipal hands, but the counties think they can do it more efficiently. The regional plan calls for retaining a contractor to make sure the harbors are deep… Read More
Three rivers in Labasa in the Northern Division will be looked into immediately for more dredging works which could start in the coming weeks. Clarifying questions raised by the Member of Parliament Alvick Maharaj, the Minister for Water-ways Mahendra Reddy said dredg¬ing had been undertaken for Qawa River, Labasa River and Wailevu River because they… Read More
The Okaloosa County Commission on Tuesday is expected to consider whether to approve an interlocal agreement with the city of Destin for the planned Holiday Isle beach restoration project. The agreement calls for the county to provide an estimated $2 million in bed-tax money to pay for the project, which would place about 100,000 to… Read More
The city plans to dredge about 10,000 cubic yards of material from the area around the Whihala Beach boat launch this spring if the Indiana Department of Environmental Management approves it. “Through the wave action, it fills up with sand and gravel over the years, and every few years we do a dredge there to… Read More
The new dredge which has arrived to work in Timaru’s port will be twice as fast as its predecessor. It is the first dredge to arrive in port since the decommissioning of the Pelican last year. Known as the Albatross, it has been working at Tauranga Port, and will be stationed in Timaru over the… Read More
A 2,000-foot-long terminal groin would reduce erosion eating away the north end of Topsail Island and cut back the frequency of dredging in the New River Inlet, according to engineers hired to put together an inlet management plan. A preliminary preferred alternative presented by Applied Technology and Management Inc., or ATM, to North Topsail Beach… Read More
The water quality in Hanoi’s lakes, including 86 in the inner city and 44 on the outskirts, earmarked for renovation has improved markedly after months of dredging and cleaning, experts have announced. Lakes such as Ngoc Khanh, Kim Lien, Ba Mau and Thien Quang were once severely contaminated and needed urgent cleaning to protect their… Read More