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The Ascension Parish President was one of three to send a letter to the Pontchartrain Levee District (PLD) requesting action on Bayou Manchac Dredging to enhance drainage in the area. Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa, East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, and Iberville Parish President Mitchell Ourso sent the letter to PLD President Ricky… Read More
A project to improve navigation at Rhodes Point on Smith Island and to rebuild part of the shoreline is expected to get underway in November. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a $6.88 million contract to a Virginia company to begin the project. Coastal Design & Construction Inc. of Gloucester, Virginia, was awarded… Read More
Former City of Fayetteville manager George Shuff, of Minden, said that a refusal by federal, state and county agencies to dredge Arbuckle Creek has led to floodwaters carrying PCBs onto residents’ properties from a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site. EPA crews began a cleanup effort, evacuating about 200 yards of contaminated soil… Read More
The 10th Street Boat Ramp in Sarasota will be temporarily closed due to dredging. All six boat ramps will be closed from Oct. 9-12 and reopen on Oct. 13. The contractor dredging the 10th Street Boat Basin is advancing toward the boat ramps. Boaters are asked to use the next closest ramp at in the… Read More
The construction work has started this month of September at the Port of Naantali to extend an existing quay from 178m to 228m. The extension will create additional vessel handling infrastructure, something that will support especially Finnlines plans of expanding its traffic with larger vessels between Finland, Åland and Sweden. Source: SHIPPAX
Since last spring, the hopper dredge Terrapin Island has been making passes along the mouth of the Columbia River, vacuuming up the slough from a shipping channel that handles about 46 million tons of cargo annually. An estimated 10 million cubic yards of sediment is removed from the shipping channel each year and placed in… Read More
Muskogee City-County Port Authority directors authorized the execution of an agreement that would allow the future use of port property as a disposal site for dredge material. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the site for such use years ago and has “from time to time and on numerous occasions” been used by the… Read More
A fix for a Naches River levee that was damaged during spring flooding may be coming soon. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is requesting public comments on four options for a possible fix: no action; move all nearby buildings, utilities and other amenities protected by the levee; remove and replace the levee; or restore… Read More
Workers with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are set to start scooping toxic sludge from the bottom of the Gowanus Canal the first week of December and will begin prepping for the excavation next week, officials said. Starting on Oct. 5, barges will cruise into the heavily polluted canal’s Fourth Street Basin, where dredging will… Read More
A bid to dredge Suisun City’s waterways that was much higher than expected has the city’s Public Works Department trying to find ways to cut costs. The single bid, which came in at $5 million earlier this month, was well in excess of the $2.9 million that the city estimated it would cost. The city… Read More
Erosion from Hurricanes Irma and Maria scraped about 1.4 million cubic yards of sand from Palm Beach County beaches that will cost about $40 million to replace, county officials say. That’s more damage than Hurricane Matthew caused last year. Jupiter resident Bill Taylor, who was surfing Wednesday afternoon at Jupiter Civic Center on the north… Read More
With just hours before the deadline, Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy has agreed to fund a study to dredge the harbor and potentially unlock millions in revenue for the city. “This feasibility study will help provide the properties along the South Harbor portion of the Lynnway with the potential to accommodate deep water vessels for marinas,… Read More
A flurry of dump trucks carting sand from the San Luis Rey River is expected to begin soon. A detour has been put in place along the river bike trail and a submittal by the contractor is in the process of being finalized by the Army Corps of Engineers. “We expect to begin work either… Read More
Dane County is cleaning up a century worth of phosphorus-polluting sediment that causes algae blooms to pollute waters, shut down beaches and kill wildlife. Dane County’s “Suck the Muck” $12 million, four-year plan will clean up 870,000 pounds of phosphorus in the legacy sludge from 33 miles of streams in the Yahara watershed. Experts say… Read More
A massive dredge moved into place in Menemsha Monday, and is ready to finish a long-awaited project to clear the channel. Last month, the Army Corps of Engineers announced a new contractor, New York–based H & L Dredging, would take over for Ohio-based contractor J-Way Southern, which left the project unfinished for the second year… Read More