Issued colorful gloves and told to yank out the invasive species, I joined 100 volunteers to comb the Bolsa Chica mesa in a cleanup that will be repeated twice this month. The Bolsa Chica Conservancy hosts many educational activities in what it likes to call its “Earth Month.” “Don’t pull out the ones with the… Read More
LIVE export is set to resume from the Karumba Port with a six and a half year channel dredging commitment providing certainty for graziers in the Gulf. The $6.8 million will begin in coming months to create a channel depth of 3.2 metres after a deal was negotiated between the State Government, Port’s North, and… Read More
Ald. Dan Prozanski unloaded on administration and the majority of his fellow City Council members Monday for sinking another $400,000 into dredging Lincoln Park lagoon. Prozanski was joined by Alds. Scott Gordon and Keith Rosenberg in casting dissenting votes in the 16-3 decision to approve administration’s recommendation to pay a contractor’s bill for dredging and… Read More
Coring samples taken from Lake Mitchell in February revealed the volume of sediment laden with algae-producing phosphorus may be up to eight times what was earlier estimated, throwing a $7.2 million estimate for a lake cleanup project into question. Mitchell City Council members said they were unwilling to proceed on a plan to spend $385,000… Read More
Dump trucks loaded with sand have started to roll into Pompton Lakes for the final phase of a controversial cleanup of a contaminated lake that serves as a backup drinking water supply for North Jersey. The three-year, $50 million project was designed to remove sediment from Pompton Lake that had been contaminated with mercury and… Read More
Dredging work at Quay 34 of the Grandi Molini, in the port of Livorno, is underway. The project aims to be concluded by May, and will allow the mooring of vessels with a draft of up to nine meters. The upgrade is part of a package of works that involves different parts of the Livorno… Read More
Important dredging work at Hafan Pwllheli marina in North Wales has been scheduled for 2018. The plan to dredge the harbour entrance and the main channel to maintain its design depth has already been agreed. Work on clearing the entrance of silt using land-based machinery will start on 9th April. This is expected to take… Read More
With decades of research, planning and negotiation ahead, Del Mar has begun formulating its strategies for counteracting sea-level rise by spreading sand on the city’s beaches. The city’s Sea-Level Rise Stakeholder-Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) took its first tentative steps last week in setting Del Mar on a course that will focus on expanded dredging of… Read More
Think of it as Ocean City’s little brother – a 133-acre island sitting in the middle of the back bay, just across a narrow channel. Shooting Island, as it is known, is an uninhabited flat land mass under threat from erosion. Among other places, it is visible from Ocean City by peering out over the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed the construction of a 97-million-gallon drinking water reservoir Savannah will need as a result of harbor deepening. The $43.5 million structure that sits between I-95 and Ga. 21 near Port Wentworth’s Rice Hope neighborhood is now being tested. “We’re filling it and dropping it, filling and dropping,”… Read More
The new head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, R.D. James, got a firsthand look at the damage sustained to the coastline following a series of nor’easters this month as he toured Delaware beaches on Tuesday, March 27, with U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.). James, whose official title is Assistant Secretary of the Army… Read More
Tests into the sediment and mud set to be dumped from Hinkley Point is safe, officials have said. As previously reported, the energy giant behind the Hinkley Point C development in Bridgwater obtained a marine licence to dump up to 300,000 cubic metres of dredged material in the Bristol Channel – just a mile off… Read More
Though only two years away from a state-imposed deadline to stop open-lake disposal of dredged material, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proceeding as usual this summer with plans to put just as much silt as it normally digs out of the Toledo shipping channel into the open water of western Lake Erie’s North… Read More
A geotechnical study is expected to further Fenwick Island’s efforts to secure a dredging project in the Little Assawoman Bay. Last Friday, the Fenwick Island Town Council unanimously approved a request from the town’s Dredging Committee to fund a geotechnical study of the Little Assawoman Bay. Councilman Bernie Merritt, chair of the committee, told the… Read More
A dredging project in Grand Traverse Bay Harbor in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has received final approvals from government regulatory agencies. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says dredging is expected to start in May and is part of efforts to save Buffalo Reef off Gay, northwest of Marquette. The state says stamp sands created in… Read More