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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
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comment on long-awaited plans to dredge Wellfleet Harbor, in what local officials are hoping is a good sign for the project. The harbor has been choked with sand due to a lack of dredging, now making it impossible for boats to come in and out of… Read More
Honeywell says its five-year cleanup of contamination in the bottom of Onondaga Lake is done. “Honeywell’s historic cleanup of Onondaga Lake is complete,” project manager John McAuliffe said in statement. “Today, the water quality in Onondaga Lake is the best it’s been in more than 100 years.” The cleanup isn’t final until the state and… Read More
In an attempt to fix a two-year problem at Round Hill Creek, Gladstone Regional Council has reached out to the Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning for advice to dredge the river mouth. For two years, sand build-up has caused serious safety and access problems for tourism operators and recreational anglers. It also… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, has officially started work on Smith Island. Two major improvement projects are going on, one includes constructing two jetties at the Rhodes Point section of the island— while the other involves dredging of two main federal channels. Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Somerset County are teaming… Read More