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Crews have nearly completed a $28 million project to restore more than 600 acres of marsh and nourish another 310 acres on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority reported. The work, south of Slidell, is about 90 percent complete, CPRA said. Lake dredging, which supplied sediment to re-establish… Read More
As the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor shifts into full gear in its annual fight to keep the entrance channel open, a new challenge has sprung up this year. Santa Cruz County’s ongoing $4.7 million beach improvement and seawall project is “dead center” in the harbor’s dredged-up sand disposal site, at the adjacent Twin Lakes… Read More
A team of Belgian and Dutch dredging contractors hired to deepen the channel of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to 15 metres from 14 metres has put in a request to India’s biggest state-owned container port to be allowed to complete the ?1,966-crore contract a year earlier. The dredging work — which started on September… Read More
With a state-funded dredging project to maintain and ensure the safe navigation of the Forked River channels complete, the next phase, focusing on shallow navigational water courses near Barnegat Inlet, has already begun. The dredge project in the Forked River channels, which included Forked River, Forked River Middle Branch and Spur, the South Spur and… Read More
Lagos has begun the dredging and channelisation of four commercial ferry routes in a bid to upscale water transportation in a state bedeviled by road congestion. The routes being dredged are out of the 30 identified to drive water transportation and boost the tourism potential of the state. Adebowale Akinsanya, the commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure… Read More
Forget bus, train and flight, you can now take a more scenic route from Mumbai to Goa. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced on Tuesday that the Goa-Mumbai ferry service will restart from next month, December. This ferry service will be initiated under the Sagar Mala project – government’s initiative to modernize India’s ports. The Mumbai-Goa… Read More
The decision of the Centre for strategic sale of Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) may put a question mark over the proposed dredging harbour and training institute project at Antarvedi in East Godavari district. Though the State government in principle agreed to allot 200 acres for the project after DCI, which has its head office… Read More
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently completed an emergency dredging project in Keweenaw County to restore the Grand Traverse Harbor channel for commercial and recreational boating. The $246,230 dredging project, undertaken by Marine Tech, LLC of Duluth, Minnesota, through the DNR’s Parks and Recreation Division, pumped 9,000 cubic yards of sand to a beach… Read More
ONE Nation claims Labor’s dredge plan for Trinity Inlet is condemning Cairns to a future as Townsville’s poor cousin. The party’s candidate for Cairns, Ian Hodge, has slammed the Cairns Shipping Development Project to remove one million cubic tonnes of dredge spoil, arguing it should be just the first stage of a much larger project…. Read More
Dredging works were set to commence this week at Dingle Fishery Harbour Centre and are expected to be ongoing until the end of February 2018. The works will involve the dredging of the north/south section of the main navigation channel and an area between the breakwaters off the main quay head. The vessel Grete Fighter… Read More
The final Fountain Lake dredging permit request came back from the Department of Natural Resources with a smaller-scale project approved than the Shell Rock River Watershed District requested. The dredge the district requested would move about 600,000 cubic yards of sediment in the first phase of the project, while the DNR has approved approximately 400,000… Read More
Plagued by storms passing offshore, the Buxton Beach nourishment project is two months behind schedule and will not be finished until at least mid-February. Weeks Marine will ask for a contract extension to avoid liability for damages to Dare County, commissioners were told Monday. Haiqing Liu Kaczkowski of Coastal Science and Engineering, which is leading… Read More
Cleanup work to remove hazardous substances from Victoria Harbour is scheduled to begin this month. Transport Canada has awarded a $5.3-million contract to Milestone Environmental Contracting Inc. to remove hazardous materials from the seabed around Laurel Point Park. The cleanup is part of a remediation project to help restore the bay and foreshore areas, said… Read More
Volunteer Marine Rescue (VMR) is urging the Queensland Government to fund dredging at Round Hill Creek as a sand bar impedes search and rescue efforts of 1,200 square nautical miles of ocean. The depth of the channel at Round Hill Creek means some boats are unable to get in and out when they need to…. Read More
Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) will acquire new dredging vessels to conduct offshore dredging in the riverine channels of Haldia under the Kolkata Port Trust despite the fact that dredging revenue from KoPT is on a decline because of lower maintenance dredging. Almost 55% of DCI’s revenue derived from KoPT’s dredging, which started declining after… Read More