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A boatie who tried to launch in Whanganui ended up grounded and waiting for high tide. Bruce Edwards said he tried launching 90 minutes after low tide on August 23. His 5m boat got stuck, and he had to wait for high tide. Others with larger boats couldn’t launch at all for about three hours,… Read More
International Paper is evaluating pipelines under the Savannah River that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants removed and replaced to keep them out of the way of dredging as the harbor is deepened. Pipelines built in 1972 and 1989 connect the mill facility on Lathrop Avenue to its treatment facility on Hutchinson Island. The… Read More
Controvesial plans to dredge the Goodwin Sands have been scaled back. The Port of Dover, which has faced fierce opposition in its attempts to dig the sandbanks, will now take some of the aggregate from another site. It says it is still applying to dredge the sands, 7.5 miles away off Deal, but has found… Read More
Work is under way to remove 10,000 tonnes of silt from a Gloucestershire dock to improve navigation. The Canal & River Trust says the work at Sharpness Dock will keep the route from the River Severn into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal clear. It is using a mud pump to suck the silt from the… Read More
Joel Scussel stood on a wooden dock along the Dismal Swamp Canal on a clear and somewhat cool summer morning. The dock at Arbuckle Landing sits by the end of the feeder ditch where water flows east from Lake Drummond, which is in the middle of the Great Dismal Swamp. The calm waterway Thursday was… Read More
CAIRNS Regional Council’s call for the State Government to take responsibility for the dumping of Trinity Inlet dredge spoils has received backing from the Local Government Association of Queensland. Groups across the Far North are finalising their recommendations ahead of the closure of submissions to the project’s environmental impact statement at 5pm today. The council… Read More
‘Vasco da Gama’, a huge trailing suction hopper dredger owned by Belgium group Jan De Nul N V, will reach the shores of Mumbai on August 29 to start work on a €250-million contract to deepen and widen the channel of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India’s busiest container port, to help dock bigger ships. But,… Read More
The Port of Coos Bay is taking steps to move forward with a proposed channel modification project. The Army Corps of Engineers is opening a public scoping phase in preparation of an environmental impact statement. The project will expand the existing channel from 37 to 45 feet deep, and from 300 to 450 feet wide…. Read More
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced his plans for a $12 million project to remove the algae-making phosphorous to clean area lakes has begun. His Clean Lakes Community Forum Tour kicked off Monday at the Monona City Council meeting. Work on the first phase of Dane County’s four-year effort to remove phosphorus-laden sediment from streams… Read More
Montrose Golf Links, whose 450-year-old medal course is under threat from the erosion, has pointed the finger at the port for ‘wasting’ the dredged material by dumping it at Lunan Bay. Links director Chris Curnin claimed if the material was put onto Montrose beach in the correct position it would have a “significant impact and… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers thinks if it deposits sediment on the west side of the Matagorda Ship Channel instead of the east side, it won’t have to dredge as often. The deadline to comment on this proposed change is Sunday. Then, the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston’s division will… Read More
Backers of a proposal to allow maintenance dredging in Duck Key’s canals scaled back a draft ordinance going to Monroe County planners next Wednesday. A revised Aug. 11 application from Duck Key Benefit Inc., a residents’ organization, drops language that could have allowed dredging in an access channel beyond Duck Key’s internal canal system, and… Read More
A FIGHT is brewing between Cairns Regional Council and the State Government over who should bear the cost if something goes wrong with the dumping of dredge spoils from Trinity Inlet. In the revised draft environmental impact statement for the Cairns Shipping Development Project the council would be responsible for about 5km of pipelines delivering… Read More
Two years after the Greymouth port purchased a second-hand dredge from Tasmania, it is finally working. The Greymouth Star was given a demonstration yesterday and witnessed how a mechanical cutter head is lowered 3-4m to the silted bottom of the Blaketown lagoon. The head disturbs the bottom, creating a slurry of silt, which is then… Read More
The Saquatucket Harbor waterside dredging and reconstruction project will be moving forward this fall, but no decision has been made at this point on whether the town will proceed with the landside project based on the bids opened last week. Selectmen on Monday night voted to award the waterside reconstruction project to BTT Marine Construction… Read More