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RECENT storm surges waves that powered into the fragile Zululand coastline again did considerable damage to the vulnerable dune barrier north of Alkantstrand. Beaches are once more strewn with debris, including huge chunks of cliff face, casuarinas and palm trees. The combination of high swells and tides together with differing wave directions contributed to the… Read More
It’s being called an innovative type of dredging in Carolina Beach and the first of its kind in North Carolina. The Army Corps of Engineers dug and sifted through water, sand and silt in the Carolina Beach Inlet Friday on the vessel Murden. They then dropped the sand in a 25 foot hole within the… Read More
Relief is on the way for Eureka’s docks and marinas. Dredging permits have been approved. An estimated 95,000 cubic yards of sediment have built up since the last dredging cycle ten years ago. That’s left vessels in the small boat basin buckling under their own weight at low tide. Now that permits are in place… Read More
A Coastal Process Assessment refuted the link between the port’s dredging activity and coastal erosion in Montrose. Montrose Golf Links – battling to save the 455-year-old course from a watery grave – has pointed the finger at the port for “wasting” the dredged material by dumping it at Lunan Bay. Links director Chris Curnin claimed… Read More
A canal-maintenance plan for Duck Key took a step closer to approval Wednesday. Monroe County Planning Commission members voted unanimously to endorse a change in the county’s land-use plan language that would allow Duck Key property owners to dredge canals, more than a half-century old, that have become silted in and now support some marine-bottom… Read More
The Port of Longview plans to dredge its harbor area and dump dredge spoils in the Columbia River near Dibblee Point. The Port has applied for a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers to dump up to 50,000 cu. yards of dredge material in a 26-acre area on the north side of Lord Island… Read More
Nearly £25 million will be spent on a radical flood defence plan to safeguard hundreds of homes and businesses in rural Perthshire. Councillors are poised to give the go-ahead to the long-awaited Comrie Flood Protection Scheme. It follows severe flooding in 2012 which left homes under water and sparked a major rescue effort. A study… Read More
Dredging equipment for work on the $44 million Breakwater Wharf Extension project is expected to arrive in the Port of Eden early next week. The dredge – known as ‘Machiavelli’ – is scheduled to leave Melbourne tomorrow, Friday, September 1, and could arrive in Eden as early as Monday, weather permitting. ‘Machiavelli’ will move up… Read More
Last winter’s fierce rainstorms have undone much of the recent work to clean up the Napa River’s shipping channel, and the city is taking a first step toward re-dredging the waterway – while awaiting a hand from federal disaster relief. A project to remove storm-driven sediment from the River Park Marina gained City Council on… Read More
The town was awarded a $500,000 state grant Tuesday, the remaining third of the $1.5 million total needed to complete the Manchester Harbor dredging project. The project will remove 24,676 cubic yards of sediment to restore the depth of the harbor areas to a minimum of 8 feet wide at low tide. It supports a… Read More
The West Indian Company (WICO) dock can now accommodate three megaships simultaneously, WICO announced Tuesday. The news was revealed during WICO’s latest board meeting, which took place on August 22. The accommodation of larger ships was among a myriad of announcements made by Clifford Graham, WICO’s newest CEO, along with his executive staff, during the… Read More
Dave Parilla has been trying for years to fix a problem for Fort Myers Beach: the slow and steady shallowing of the island’s canals. The canals on Estero Island, constructed in the 50s and 60s, have never been dredged, and with no maintenance program in place, they’re naturally filling themselves in and could be getting… Read More
Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) will carry out operational dredging of the Bug-Dnieper-Lyman Canal (BDLC) and Kherson Sea Canal (KSC) to support their technical characteristics and operating conditions. Expected cost of works is UAH 111.99 million. The volume of dredging is 1.026 million cubic meters. Dredging is planned to be carried out within four months… Read More
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Rep. Bob Brady, D-Pa., joined with local officials at the Port of Philadelphia’s Packer Avenue Marine Terminal on Friday, Aug. 25 to announce that funding has been secured to complete the Delaware River Deepening Project. The project, which has been in the works for 25 years, is deepening the… Read More
New York State is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for dumping dredged materials in Long Island Sound. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday that the State of New York would be taking legal action against the EPA after it said in 2016 it would dump dredged materials into the eastern Sound…. Read More