The Shell Rock River Watershed District is waiting on two permits from the Department of Natural Resources before they can continue moving forward to dredge the lake. Shell Rock River Watershed District director of operations Andy Henschel estimated the confined disposal facility site, built to siphon off and settle the water and sediment mixture dredged… Read More
The contractor leading work on the Haines harbor expansion is under investigation by the Alaska Department of Labor. That’s just one of the unexpected challenges that have come up for the multimillion dollar project, which is in its first phase of construction. The contractor is also requesting $1 million in additional funding because it says… Read More
East Ascension drainage officials agreed Monday to dredge nearly three miles of a major waterway through the heart of Gonzales and to remove two longstanding weirs thought to inhibit drainage, but held off backing another nearly $94 million in other drainage projects across the parish for at least a month. An on-and-off topic through the… Read More
Repairs and rehabilitation options go before the City Council on Tuesday. Council members have three options for Suisun Marina dredging and Pierce Island levee rehabilitation: Reject the current bid, award the bid or continue the item to a December meeting. The project in the past few weeks has been rescoped and the cost dropped from… Read More
A dredging project aimed at improving water quality and encouraging rare aquatic plants to thrive on the Grantham Canal between Harby and Redmile is under way. The Canal & River Trust is using a special amphibious digger to clear the canal of reeds and ensure a healthy flow of water for other aquatic plants to… Read More
The arrival of a barge bearing heavy equipment on Monday, October 2 marked the beginning of a long-awaited dredging of the entrance channel to the Point Roberts marina. According to Wayne Knowles, vice president of development for the marina, it has taken two years to receive permission from six different agencies: Washington state departments of… Read More
The damaged dredging vessel, which suffered an explosion two nautical miles South of Dodman Point, Cornwall on October 4, is being towed into harbor according to the UK Coast Guard. Following the incident in which two people were injured, Fowey All Weather Lifeboat established a tow with the dredging ship. The coast guard added that… Read More
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have caused some delays in the long-awaited beach replenishment project in northern Ocean County. Work to shore up battered beaches from the Manasquan to Barnegat inlets is now underway in Mantoloking, according to Mayor George Nebel. It was originally set to begin in the summer. “It’s taken five years to… Read More
Members of the Goshen Dam Pond Dredging Advisory Board Friday approved an amended $1.1 million contract with Grand Rapids, Michigan-based dredging company Grow America to begin work on Phase II of the long-awaited Goshen Dam Pond dredging project. Earlier this week, the Goshen Board of Public Works and Safety gave its nod of approval to… Read More
The city’s three downtown ponds have silted up to the point where geese and ducks can seemingly walk on water. “The last time they were dredged was over four decades ago, and it’s gotten so bad that the silt is finding its way into the harbor,” Milford Public Works Director Chris Saley said. “So we… Read More
The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection dealt a major blow to the plans by Little Egg Harbor Township and Tuckerton borough to use dredge material for a planned thin layer deposition on 50 acres on the Great Bay Boulevard Refuge Management Area owned by the state and the federal Edwin B. Forsythe National Refuge. This… Read More
Dredging is underway in Boston Harbor, day and night, as part of a federally and state-funded $350 million, 3 1/2 year project aimed to bring bigger container and industrial ships through the harbor shipping channels. The first phase is to make space for new sediment near Charlestown (shown above) and then deepen the Main and… Read More
A major dredging project will take nearly 300,000 cubic yards of clean, fine sand from the Housatonic’s shallow navigation channel and move it to Connecticut’s premier beachfront park. The sand is headed to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, as the dredging is expected to begin this week, officials said. The dredging will take the… Read More
Over $17 million will go towards beach replenishment projects in Bethany, South Bethany and Fenwick Island. The project will involve dredging 1.2 million cubic yards of sand from approved offshore borrow areas. The sand is pumped through a series of pipes onto the beaches of Bethany, South Bethany and Fenwick Island and then graded into… Read More
The first step toward a $41 million project to dredge PCBs and other toxins from the Hudson River near a former Rensselaer dye factory is expected to start this fall. BASF Corp. will begin by installing more than 500 feet of new steel bulkhead to toughen a seawall along the Hudson on Riverside Avenue, according… Read More