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A project to dredge of the Housatonic River and move the material to Hammonasset State Park in Madison was completed two months ahead of schedule and under budget. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday that work that was scheduled to end March 31 was finished by the end of December. “The project was… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA) announced an update to the permitting timeline for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. The updates will advance the target date for completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and issuance of required decisions and permits from 2022 to 2020, shaving 22 months off… Read More
A draft of the new master plan for renovating the Town Docks will be presented to the Recreation Advisory Commission. The report includes three options: minor expansion of the existing layout, adding a dock north of the Brazilian Dock, and multiple larger slips. The marina renovation would include dredging the mooring basin, building a new… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a contractor recently finished a maintenance dredging and a portion, but not all, of a related beach nourishment project straddling the Florida/Georgia state line north of Jacksonville. Crews finished dredging the entrance channel and portions of the inner channel at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in southern Camden… Read More
Ever since Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Irma, the East coast has suffered from beach erosion. Since February, the Army Corps of engineers has been working to dredge the sand in an effort to restore the beaches. The News Station’s s looked into how the project is coming along now that the deadline has passed. No… Read More
DREDGING is scheduled to start this week in The Entrance channel. “The project will involve the removal of around 60,000 cubic metres of sand from The Entrance channel, which will then be used to nourish The Entrance North Beach,” Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald, said. The Entrance channel is the only opening… Read More
Issued colorful gloves and told to yank out the invasive species, I joined 100 volunteers to comb the Bolsa Chica mesa in a cleanup that will be repeated twice this month. The Bolsa Chica Conservancy hosts many educational activities in what it likes to call its “Earth Month.” “Don’t pull out the ones with the… Read More
LIVE export is set to resume from the Karumba Port with a six and a half year channel dredging commitment providing certainty for graziers in the Gulf. The $6.8 million will begin in coming months to create a channel depth of 3.2 metres after a deal was negotiated between the State Government, Port’s North, and… Read More
Ald. Dan Prozanski unloaded on administration and the majority of his fellow City Council members Monday for sinking another $400,000 into dredging Lincoln Park lagoon. Prozanski was joined by Alds. Scott Gordon and Keith Rosenberg in casting dissenting votes in the 16-3 decision to approve administration’s recommendation to pay a contractor’s bill for dredging and… Read More
Coring samples taken from Lake Mitchell in February revealed the volume of sediment laden with algae-producing phosphorus may be up to eight times what was earlier estimated, throwing a $7.2 million estimate for a lake cleanup project into question. Mitchell City Council members said they were unwilling to proceed on a plan to spend $385,000… Read More
Dump trucks loaded with sand have started to roll into Pompton Lakes for the final phase of a controversial cleanup of a contaminated lake that serves as a backup drinking water supply for North Jersey. The three-year, $50 million project was designed to remove sediment from Pompton Lake that had been contaminated with mercury and… Read More
Dredging work at Quay 34 of the Grandi Molini, in the port of Livorno, is underway. The project aims to be concluded by May, and will allow the mooring of vessels with a draft of up to nine meters. The upgrade is part of a package of works that involves different parts of the Livorno… Read More
Important dredging work at Hafan Pwllheli marina in North Wales has been scheduled for 2018. The plan to dredge the harbour entrance and the main channel to maintain its design depth has already been agreed. Work on clearing the entrance of silt using land-based machinery will start on 9th April. This is expected to take… Read More
With decades of research, planning and negotiation ahead, Del Mar has begun formulating its strategies for counteracting sea-level rise by spreading sand on the city’s beaches. The city’s Sea-Level Rise Stakeholder-Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) took its first tentative steps last week in setting Del Mar on a course that will focus on expanded dredging of… Read More
Think of it as Ocean City’s little brother – a 133-acre island sitting in the middle of the back bay, just across a narrow channel. Shooting Island, as it is known, is an uninhabited flat land mass under threat from erosion. Among other places, it is visible from Ocean City by peering out over the… Read More