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The Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG) is hosting a town hall this Thursday, November 16, to let the public know what the canal cleanup will entail, the timeline, and what to expect. Designated a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2010, the multi-year cleanup began recently with preliminary test-dredging at the… Read More
Emergency dredging of the access channel to the port of Beira, Mozambique will allow larger draft ships to moor when it is completed within six months, said the director of communication of Mozambique’s port and rail management company, CFM. Adélio Dias also told daily newspaper Noticias that the operation consists of cleaning the channel, the… Read More
The city will soon be taking down detour signs and reopening the San Luis Rey River Trail, which were temporarily closed to allow anticipated river dredging. Dredging operations overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers have been called off. The Corps did not reply to The Coast News’ questions on the decision to halt the… Read More
Cleanup and repair costs associated with flooding in West Kelowna earlier this year have been put at $5.2 million. Local taxpayers will be on the hook for 20 per cent of the total, or just over $1 million. The list of 45 flood recovery projects includes fixing buckled pavement, rebuilding failed waterfront retaining walls, unclogging… Read More
City Manager Ed Stinson said Brigantine received approval from the Army Corps of Engineers recently for a project aimed at protecting residents and property owners from storm surges and tidal flooding, but the approval fell short of what the city was hoping for. Brigantine is in negotiations with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bureau… Read More
A section of Pilot Bay will be closed as 500 cubic metres of sand is poured on the beach. Salisbury Wharf to the waka ama shed on Pilot Bay will be fenced off for public safety from November 13-15 as large trucks and machines work on the area during the day. Some car parking at… Read More
Surveys for the deepening of the navigation channel and interior area of Porto Comercial da Figueira da Foz (commercial port of Figueira da Foz) have started, with a term of execution of three months. This is the first stage of the study on deepening the draft, which aims to increase the current 6.5 metres to… Read More
It is not just Port Mansfield that would benefit if its ship channel was dredged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – South Padre Island would be helped greatly as well. There are parts of SPI where beach erosion reaches 15 feet a year. The sediment the Army Corps could dredge at Port Mansfield… Read More
It’s a critical week for the future kayak park in the heart of the Poudre River District. The city of Fort Collins is awaiting a final permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that is due any day. When it comes, it will signal the start of an $8.5 million park designed to electrify… Read More
While the Fountain Lake dredge permit is still not what the Shell Rock River Watershed District would like it to be, the watershed director of field operations said he sees potential that the lake will be dredged to the volume the district wants. At Thursday morning’s special meeting, Director of Field Operations Andy Henschel outlined… Read More
Crews have nearly completed a $28 million project to restore more than 600 acres of marsh and nourish another 310 acres on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority reported. The work, south of Slidell, is about 90 percent complete, CPRA said. Lake dredging, which supplied sediment to re-establish… Read More
As the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor shifts into full gear in its annual fight to keep the entrance channel open, a new challenge has sprung up this year. Santa Cruz County’s ongoing $4.7 million beach improvement and seawall project is “dead center” in the harbor’s dredged-up sand disposal site, at the adjacent Twin Lakes… Read More
A team of Belgian and Dutch dredging contractors hired to deepen the channel of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to 15 metres from 14 metres has put in a request to India’s biggest state-owned container port to be allowed to complete the ?1,966-crore contract a year earlier. The dredging work — which started on September… Read More
With a state-funded dredging project to maintain and ensure the safe navigation of the Forked River channels complete, the next phase, focusing on shallow navigational water courses near Barnegat Inlet, has already begun. The dredge project in the Forked River channels, which included Forked River, Forked River Middle Branch and Spur, the South Spur and… Read More
Lagos has begun the dredging and channelisation of four commercial ferry routes in a bid to upscale water transportation in a state bedeviled by road congestion. The routes being dredged are out of the 30 identified to drive water transportation and boost the tourism potential of the state. Adebowale Akinsanya, the commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure… Read More