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The Buxton beach nourishment project was completed on Tuesday with 2.6 million cubic yards of sand deposited on the 2.9 miles of beach from The Haulover to the old lighthouse site. The completion of the project was roughly a week or two ahead of schedule and was announced at a Wednesday morning meeting in Buxton…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will again seek bids to remove about a million cubic yards of beach-quality sand from parts of the Wilmington Harbor shipping channel. The corps is scheduled to formally seek bids on Friday. After 30 days, proposals will be opened and analyzed. Originally scheduled to occur in the winter of… Read More
Joe Kroon has owned property on Lido Key for nearly 20 years, but he says he’s never seen the shoreline on the barrier island in such dire shape. Kroon was concerned enough to send an email to city commissioners Feb. 16, urging them to take action to protect the buildings that sit just behind the… Read More
In September 2017, the Canyon Lake POA Board of Directors elected to form an ad-hoc committee to study the issue of dredging the lake. The primary responsibility of the Dredge Committee is to advise and assist the board with developing and administering an on-going program to remove accumulated sediment from the lake. The committee will… Read More
Two simultaneous projects are moving a lot of sand around the St. Lucie Inlet to help beach bathers and boaters. In one, sand is being dredged out of a shoal along the north side of the inlet and the boat channel along the west side of Sailfish Point and piped to renourish ocean beaches from… Read More
Results are back from validation testing on the first dredged section of the Kopeopeo Canal and they are showing sediment quality is now below the remediation target. Project Manager Brendon Love said that dredging is continuing and it was reassuring to get the results back from the first section. “Those first validation results are important… Read More
The current plan for beach restoration in Harvey Cedars, Surf City and a section of Brant Beach involves contractor Weeks Marine sending dredges to Harvey Cedars and Brant Beach to begin work in March. According to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Public Affairs Officer Steve Rochette, the R.S. Weeks pipeline dredge would be stationed in… Read More
A dredging ship on the Savannah River emptied another load of sand and mud capable of filling roughly 170 dump trucks Wednesday as officials overseeing the $973 million deepening of the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah declared the project had nearly reached its halfway point. Almost 2 ½ years have passed since dredging… Read More
A 4 kilometre stretch of Christchurch’s Heathcote River will be dredged for the first time in more than 30 years to reduce flooding. Christchurch City Council decided on Thursday to fast-track a $16.5 million dredging programme that would remove about 60,000 cubic metres of material from the river by 2020. That was enough mud and… Read More
Delays in a long-awaited beach replenishment project will push the start date in Fenwick Island to July. Last year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District awarded a $19.2 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company to dredge 1.2 million cubic yards of sand that will be used to fortify the beaches… Read More
Long overdue dredging has taken place in the approaches to the German Baltic port of Ueckermünde-Berndshof close to the border with Poland to enable the small facility to maintain its commercial handling viability, reports Tom Todd. Viola Hackenbeck at the German federal waterways and shipping office (WSA) in nearby Stralsund told Maritime Journal 100,000 m3… Read More
Dredging of the Savannah Harbor is now halfway complete according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps says about 20 miles of “outer” harbor (from Fort Pulaski to the ocean have now been dredged.) The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) is seen as vital for the economy in terms of the Port of… Read More
Dredging of Trinity Inlet is expected to start in early 2019 after the State Co-Ordinator General today approved the $120 million project. Economic modelling suggests the $120 million project will generate an estimated $850 million benefit to the local tourism sector over the next two decades with increased passenger expenditure, port charges and associated supplies… Read More
Green Oak Township officials are looking into a resident-initiated project that is somewhat unprecedented. A canal on the north side of Whitmore Lake has shrunk and filled in over time, causing sediment runoff and yard encroaching. Property owners along the stretch want to dredge the canal and install seawalls so it can be safely accessed… Read More
Just a day before the Army Corps of Engineers’ hopper dredge Currituck made it to Holden Beach on Feb. 21 to begin the Lockwood Folly Dredging Project, the Holden Beach Board of Commissioners approved reimbursing Brunswick County for the project. During their regular meeting Feb. 20, Christy Ferguson, the town’s shoreline protection and recreation manager,… Read More