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If you’ve driven by Lake Zumbro recently, you have probably noticed something a little off. The water level is six feet below normal, but it’s an intentional move by Olmsted County. They’re doing this to see which parts of the river need to be dredged, as sediment has been building up for years. “This is… Read More
For Doug Gibson, the executive director of the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve, a Nov. 29 event was more than two decades in the making. Gibson and a throng of state, regional and local officials — including Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear and State Sen. Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) — gathered at the lagoon’s nature center… Read More
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council estimates work to address the erosion at Lake Cathie will occur in Autumn, 2018. Development and Environment acting director Dan Croft said council has lodged a Crown licence application to allow for dredging of Lake Cathie in the area on the eastern side of Ocean Drive. “The intent is that dredged material… Read More
Maintenance requires patience in Newport Harbor. Nearly five years after its last major dredging project, the city of Newport Beach is planning its next big sediment removal. Ideally, the comprehensive dredge would begin within the next couple of years, said Harbor Resources Manager Chris Miller. The City Council gave the go-ahead this week to start… Read More
With the dredging of the “Duck Pond” wrapping up this month, City Council has signed off on improvements to the Horseshoe and Lower Shaker Lake dams. The estimated $4.1 million project will again be handled through the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, but this time through its Stormwater Management Program, with no local match. In… Read More
This beach town whose citizens suffered through a summer of disruption and pop-up beach lakes due to beach replenishment the town did not want could be in for a second round. A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday that a permanent solution to drainage issues exacerbated last summer by the government’s… Read More
When Willard Drysdale opened his mail one day in mid-May, he didn’t think about being in the center of the year’s biggest story in Wabasha County, or in the southeastern Minnesota region. He simply thought about his farm. Drysdale Farms, a stone’s throw from U.S. Highway 61 just north of Kellogg, along with the neighborhood… Read More
The developers of Tradepoint Atlantic want to deepen the channels approaching their property in Sparrows Point to make it more attractive for waterborne shipping and able to handle larger ships. The company is seeking approval from federal and state officials to modify its existing permit to maintain a 36-foot depth in the property’s channels from… Read More
Completion of the dredging of the Shark River channels situated off the Belmar Marina will bring the start of another dredging project at the entrance of the Shark River Inlet. Since early September, the N.J. Department of Transportation (DOT) has been removing 102,000 cubic yards of sediment to open up the western portions of the… Read More
Mentor officials now have in place what they hope will permanently fix a gap at Garfield Park pond. Garfield pond dredging contractor C. Crump Excavating on Dec. 21 installed about 400 cubic yards of clay material in an open ditch that had been created to drain the 3 1/2-acre basin. The ditch was filled in… Read More
The state Irrigation department is carrying out a massive dredging work in Muriganga ahead of Gangasagar Mela on Sagar Island to ensure round the clock operation of vessels to ferry pilgrims from mainland to island and vice versa. Lakhs of people from different parts of the country visit Sagar Island to take a holy dip… Read More
Silting up of Peel marina is worse then ever – and boat owners say enough is enough. Captain Eddie Kaighin of the Isle of Man Harbour Users’ Association has written to Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer calling for members to be exempted from paying berthing fees until the problem is solved. He wrote: ’One of the… Read More
When the wind whipped up the shallow water on Storm Lake a couple decades ago, it created an interesting scene. The wave action lifted sediment off the shallow lake’s bottom, leading to cloudy, brown water conditions and strange-looking waves. “We didn’t have whitecaps, we had kind of like chocolate caps,” said Gary Lalone, chairman of… Read More
Oak Island received some verbal, though not formally written, support from county commissioners Monday for its request to become party to an existing federal permit for dredging and sand placement from the Lockwood Folly Inlet. Commissioners would like to hear from Holden Beach, which already is party to that permit, before firing off a letter… Read More
The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation, Harbors Division, recently celebrated the blessing of Hilo Harbor’s newly completed Pier 4 cargo wharf project, the Pier 1 cargo yard and passenger terminal improvements. The projects are designed to increase operational space and increase cargo handling efficiencies. The improvements to the passenger terminal will create a more pleasant and… Read More