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IT’S been more than 20 years in the making but dredging at the Boyne River mouth is due to be finished in time for the Boyne Tannum HookUp. The annual event, Australia’s biggest family fishing competition, is set for May 4-6. Gladstone Ports Corporation chief executive officer Peter O’Sullivan said tenderers for the dredging project… Read More
Vietnamese authorities will dredge Hoan Kiem Lake, one of Hanoi’s main tourist attractions, in a bid to clean up severe pollution threatening wildlife. The dredging will clean 57,400 cubic metres of mud from the lake by the year’s end, the online newspaper Vietnam Plus reported on Thursday. The lake was home to Cu Rua, or… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering using sand dredged from the Duluth-Superior Harbor to resupply rapidly eroding Lake Superior beaches along Minnesota Point. The erosion problem, spurred by near-record-high lake levels and made worse during the big lake’s epic storms, has eaten away hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand — reaching… Read More
The excavator is still and a mound of mud sits untouched on the shore of Carolina Beach lake. A section of walkway remains closed more than a month after the town had to stop what has become a seemingly never-ending project to dredge the lake. The town’s contractor has packed up and left, leaving the… Read More
Cockle Cove Beach has seen its share of erosion in the past decade, but last month, for the first time, storm-driven waves claimed a section of the town beach’s parking lot. The storm also breached a dune and sent water from Nantucket Sound into the marsh behind the beach. Cockle Cove is “probably the foremost… Read More
Oceanside is working to ensure a shoreline study to protect city beaches is completed. A study was launched in 2016 to estimate the impacts of erosion to Oceanside’s shoreline after the construction of Camp Pendleton Harbor in 1942, and to explore solutions to mitigate erosion of city beaches. The three-year study is overseen by the… Read More
Every time it rains Sheena Sherratt and her family look nervously to the sky. She has lived along the banks of Christchurch’s Heathcote River for 15 years and water has reached above the floor of her home three times since the 2011 earthquakes. Sherratt and other residents living near the river told the Christchurch City… Read More
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito left SouthCoast last week with the notion that the region has the ability to become a juggernaut within the “blue economy.” The city’s port recently ranked as the most valuable in the country for the 17th consecutive year. But there’s more room to grow. “Dredging really activates the rest of the… Read More
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday launched dredging operations for the Barak river during the inauguration of the three-day Namami Barak festival The Barak river, designated as National Waterways-16, saw the commencement of the cleaning-up activity at Bhanga point in Karimganj district. The Barak river will link up the Barak Valley region of Assam… Read More
The surf lapped at the bottom of the dune line, erasing tire tracks left only a few hours earlier on the narrow strip of sand. Blame the shrunken strand on Hurricane Matthew, which last year consumed a third of the Nags Head beach. The most damage came at the south end of town. “There’s one… Read More
A massive cleanup project on Onondaga Lake is coming to an end. Honeywell’s final work of restoring shoreline habitat is slated to conclude this month. The company completed dredging 2.2 million cubic yards of lake bottom in 2014 and capping 475 acres of the bottom this year. Honeywell project manager John McAuliffe tells the Syracuse… Read More
A diversion channel tying into a levee with a recreation trail appears to be the best plan for flood protection in west Minot, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps held a public meeting in Minot Thursday to outline its rationale and take comments. The meeting is part of a $3 million… Read More
One of the line-items on the November 2017 California Coastal Commission agenda was a one-year extension of the beleaguered Broad Beach Replenishment Project. Following years of delays with issues ranging from sand sourcing to legal battles of all shapes and sizes, the project has been slow to get off the ground—and proponents of alternatives such… Read More
While generally regarded as a productive exercise, a meeting last Thursday between officials of local, state and federal governments on the need to curb shoaling in the Ocean City inlet focused on what could be done rather than what should be done. “Primarily, it was an overview of what dredging we expect to be able… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to dredge the Lake Worth Inlet this winter and will place the sand on the northern tip of the town’s shore. The Corps’ contractor, Weeks Marine, will begin delivering equipment to the beach today with the hope of completing mobilization by Thanksgiving, the town said. There will… Read More