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For Doug Gibson, the executive director of the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve, a Nov. 29 event was more than two decades in the making. Gibson and a throng of state, regional and local officials — including Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear and State Sen. Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) — gathered at the lagoon’s nature center… Read More
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council estimates work to address the erosion at Lake Cathie will occur in Autumn, 2018. Development and Environment acting director Dan Croft said council has lodged a Crown licence application to allow for dredging of Lake Cathie in the area on the eastern side of Ocean Drive. “The intent is that dredged material… Read More
Maintenance requires patience in Newport Harbor. Nearly five years after its last major dredging project, the city of Newport Beach is planning its next big sediment removal. Ideally, the comprehensive dredge would begin within the next couple of years, said Harbor Resources Manager Chris Miller. The City Council gave the go-ahead this week to start… Read More
With the dredging of the “Duck Pond” wrapping up this month, City Council has signed off on improvements to the Horseshoe and Lower Shaker Lake dams. The estimated $4.1 million project will again be handled through the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, but this time through its Stormwater Management Program, with no local match. In… Read More
This beach town whose citizens suffered through a summer of disruption and pop-up beach lakes due to beach replenishment the town did not want could be in for a second round. A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday that a permanent solution to drainage issues exacerbated last summer by the government’s… Read More
“Keeping the boat basin dredged is critical for the safety of all mariners and can make the difference to our many small business’s ability to be successful,” said Michael Saindon, Manager, Port of Garibaldi. “With the help of the Port of Coos Bay and the State-owned dredge, we can keep the port dredged at a… Read More
Halting the stalled Carolina Beach Lake dredging project seemed to be the favored option among members of the town council at a workshop meeting Tuesday morning. “It sounds like a lot of dollar signs and too many complications for me,” Mayor Pro Tem Leann Pierce said. The idea behind the project is to dredge the… Read More
Nearly two years after locals, visitors and town officials began voicing their frustrations about an increasingly shallow basin, a welcome sight appeared in town: a dredge boat. A crew from Jade Creek Construction LLC, of Manassas, Va., began work Monday morning to deepen the Chesapeake City basin, also known as Back Creek basin due to… Read More
City officials in Decatur say progress is moving along on the Lake Decatur dredging effort and the project could be done ahead of schedule. Interim Decatur Public Works director Matt Newell says about 76 percent of the work has been done and there’s a possibility work will be finished by the end of next year…. Read More
A flurry of activity is underway to prepare for the long-awaited restoration of the San Elijo Lagoon, a nearly $120 million project planned for decades that starts in December. Biologists are surveying birds, fish, water quality and other details of wildlife in the lagoon to collect baseline data before the dredging begins, said Doug Gibson,… Read More
It’s a project years in the making that’s set to open late next year. “It’s terrific, it’s long overdue,” Joshua Ekau, a Nanakuli resident said. The Department of Land and Natural resources is proposing to dredge the entire length of the Ala Wai Canal from the Kapahulu Library to the Ala Moana Boulevard Overpass. “I… Read More
A month after the government’s ministerial panel okayed Indo-Sino companies to dredge Wular Lake, the multi-crore project has hit a roadblock as “a few members” of the panel have expressed reservations over the panel’s recommendations, official sources told Kashmir Reader. Now the contract to be signed between the government and the private companies has been… Read More
SEVEN years on from Cyclone Yasi and Mick and Linda Edwards are still battling. They lost their Port of Call Boating and Fishing Supplies business in the cyclone. It wasn’t so much the damage to the shop, it was the damage to Cardwell. The yachts, the big boats that used to call in to anchor… Read More
Efforts to dredge Lockwood Folly Inlet could be under way by next spring, but right now, county leaders can’t say who will get the sand if the project proceeds. The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement Monday night that will allow APTIM, an environmental engineering and consulting firm, to assess feasibility and provide… Read More
A DECISION by the Department for Infrastructure to continue to allow sand dredging at Lough Neagh has been branded a “disgrace” by environmental campaigners. Five companies are to be permitted to continue dredging sand from the lough, which is used to supply the construction industry, but with conditions attached. The work does not currently have… Read More