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Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) is undertaking shipping channel restoration works at the Port of Bundaberg, following significant rainfall in the area in October/ November last year. The build-up of sediment in the port’s main shipping berth and the inner reach of the shipping channel has severely hindered the berthing and movement of commercial ships in… Read More
A $4 billion-plus Capital Budget was approved by the Legislature on Thursday night and signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday afternoon, and with it comes millions of dollars in projects that will benefit Grays Harbor and Pacific counties, with everything from park upgrades to future city development plans. “I’m glad we were able to… Read More
The long-awaited dredging work on the Titas River in Ashuganj, Brahmanbaria, was inaugurated on Saturday morning. RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury, MP of Brahmanbaria-3 constituency, spoke at the inauguration as the chief guest. “The dredging work is expected to revive the once mighty river and its navigability” Obaidul told reporters. Local farmers and fishermen have expressed… Read More
The county closed a public beach this week so repairs could be made to dunes at the private Disney’s Vero Beach Resort At the same time, repairs to John’s Island private dunes will keep another public beach closed for almost a month. Beaches at Disney’s Vero Beach Resort and at John’s Island suffered erosion and… Read More
State officials say they’ve reached a milestone in the effort to clean up the St. Mary’s River near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The state Office of the Great Lakes announced Wednesday that it’s lifting dredging restrictions for the river. For decades, regulators have had special rules for handling material dredged from the river bottom. American… Read More
Dredging works across the Manning and Great Lakes is imminent following a funding announcement on Friday, January 19. Almost $1 million will be used to conduct dredging projects for the Tuncurry Channel at Wallis Lake, Farquhar Inlet and the Harrington Backchannel. About 10,000 cubic metres of material will be dredged at Wallis Lake as well… Read More
Dredging of PCBs from the floor of New Bedford Harbor south of Interstate 195 should be finished around March of this year, heralding a new day for the harbor, according to David Lederer of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Workers will still bring waste from farther north to the underground disposal cell beneath that portion… Read More
Ocean City is getting emergency federal attention, but you wouldn’t know it unless you do business on the water. Rising sand bars have already caused one ship carrying 11,000 pounds of fish to run aground, and the fear is many others could suffer a similar fate. That’s why Congressman Andy Harris called in the U.S…. Read More
More than 1 million cubic yards of sand is being dredged and pumped ashore at Isle of Palms to put back what Mother Nature stole from the beach during stormy weather in the fall. The same sort of thing will happen starting in March at Folly Beach, but the sand will come from the Folly… Read More
An application for further dredging off the Port of Hay Point is before the State Government. North Queensland Bulk Port submitted the application to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority for a permit to conduct maintenance dredging works to remove about 350,000m³ of sediment. A company spokesperson said it would “restore berth pockets and… Read More
On the eve of the holiday season, on December 30, NIBULON started the second stage of dredging operations specified by the project on the navigable path of the Southern Buh River. The company says it started the operations from the largest sandbar of the Southern Buh River – Kostiantynivka sandbar. This stage provides for dredging… Read More
Crews Thursday will begin dredging Mission Bay to help make it easier and safer for boats to navigate. It has been nearly five decades since the last major dredging of the bay. The operation is necessary because years of boating, storms and water currents have rendered the floor of the bay uneven. The dredging will… Read More
More than two dozen barges have broken away from their moorings in the high waters throughout the Pittsburgh area, the Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District reported Saturday. Jeff Hawk, spokesman for district, said that 27 barges were believed to be adrift, including at least 15 that were stuck against the Emsworth Lock and Dam,… Read More
Gladstone Ports Corporation has awarded the tender for works at the Boyne River, to restore a safe passage and navigable channel for boaties. Local company East Coast Maritime has been appointed to undertake the works, with activity at the river mouth to commence by mid-February. Material will be removed from the 15 metre wide channel,… Read More
A Great Lakes shipping campaign worth celebrating shuts down Monday with the annual closing of the Soo Locks for about 10 weeks of intense upkeep and refurbishing. Unless something last-minute is still moving, the locks figure to close sometime around midnight. As the last boats point ice-masked bows toward their respective ports of layup this… Read More