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It’s a project years in the making that’s set to open late next year. “It’s terrific, it’s long overdue,” Joshua Ekau, a Nanakuli resident said. The Department of Land and Natural resources is proposing to dredge the entire length of the Ala Wai Canal from the Kapahulu Library to the Ala Moana Boulevard Overpass. “I… Read More
A month after the government’s ministerial panel okayed Indo-Sino companies to dredge Wular Lake, the multi-crore project has hit a roadblock as “a few members” of the panel have expressed reservations over the panel’s recommendations, official sources told Kashmir Reader. Now the contract to be signed between the government and the private companies has been… Read More
SEVEN years on from Cyclone Yasi and Mick and Linda Edwards are still battling. They lost their Port of Call Boating and Fishing Supplies business in the cyclone. It wasn’t so much the damage to the shop, it was the damage to Cardwell. The yachts, the big boats that used to call in to anchor… Read More
Efforts to dredge Lockwood Folly Inlet could be under way by next spring, but right now, county leaders can’t say who will get the sand if the project proceeds. The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement Monday night that will allow APTIM, an environmental engineering and consulting firm, to assess feasibility and provide… Read More
A DECISION by the Department for Infrastructure to continue to allow sand dredging at Lough Neagh has been branded a “disgrace” by environmental campaigners. Five companies are to be permitted to continue dredging sand from the lough, which is used to supply the construction industry, but with conditions attached. The work does not currently have… Read More
IT’S been more than 20 years in the making but dredging at the Boyne River mouth is due to be finished in time for the Boyne Tannum HookUp. The annual event, Australia’s biggest family fishing competition, is set for May 4-6. Gladstone Ports Corporation chief executive officer Peter O’Sullivan said tenderers for the dredging project… Read More
Vietnamese authorities will dredge Hoan Kiem Lake, one of Hanoi’s main tourist attractions, in a bid to clean up severe pollution threatening wildlife. The dredging will clean 57,400 cubic metres of mud from the lake by the year’s end, the online newspaper Vietnam Plus reported on Thursday. The lake was home to Cu Rua, or… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering using sand dredged from the Duluth-Superior Harbor to resupply rapidly eroding Lake Superior beaches along Minnesota Point. The erosion problem, spurred by near-record-high lake levels and made worse during the big lake’s epic storms, has eaten away hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand — reaching… Read More
The excavator is still and a mound of mud sits untouched on the shore of Carolina Beach lake. A section of walkway remains closed more than a month after the town had to stop what has become a seemingly never-ending project to dredge the lake. The town’s contractor has packed up and left, leaving the… Read More
Cockle Cove Beach has seen its share of erosion in the past decade, but last month, for the first time, storm-driven waves claimed a section of the town beach’s parking lot. The storm also breached a dune and sent water from Nantucket Sound into the marsh behind the beach. Cockle Cove is “probably the foremost… Read More
Oceanside is working to ensure a shoreline study to protect city beaches is completed. A study was launched in 2016 to estimate the impacts of erosion to Oceanside’s shoreline after the construction of Camp Pendleton Harbor in 1942, and to explore solutions to mitigate erosion of city beaches. The three-year study is overseen by the… Read More
Every time it rains Sheena Sherratt and her family look nervously to the sky. She has lived along the banks of Christchurch’s Heathcote River for 15 years and water has reached above the floor of her home three times since the 2011 earthquakes. Sherratt and other residents living near the river told the Christchurch City… Read More
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito left SouthCoast last week with the notion that the region has the ability to become a juggernaut within the “blue economy.” The city’s port recently ranked as the most valuable in the country for the 17th consecutive year. But there’s more room to grow. “Dredging really activates the rest of the… Read More
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday launched dredging operations for the Barak river during the inauguration of the three-day Namami Barak festival The Barak river, designated as National Waterways-16, saw the commencement of the cleaning-up activity at Bhanga point in Karimganj district. The Barak river will link up the Barak Valley region of Assam… Read More
The surf lapped at the bottom of the dune line, erasing tire tracks left only a few hours earlier on the narrow strip of sand. Blame the shrunken strand on Hurricane Matthew, which last year consumed a third of the Nags Head beach. The most damage came at the south end of town. “There’s one… Read More