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Supporters of a proposed $8.6 million Columbus Riverfront project will have a chance to learn next month whether there’s enough backing on the Columbus City Council for the idea to move forward. The Columbus Redevelopment Commission voted 5-0 Monday to approve a contract with Hitchcock Design Group for up to $496,900 to create schematic drawings… Read More
A dredge this month is removing the organic muck that Hurricane Irma pushed out from underneath docks and into just-deepened parts of Turkey Creek. This $1.7 milliondredging project began in late January near the mouth of Turkey Creek, after Irma had sent the new muck into recently dredged areas. Muck — rotted plant matter, clays… Read More
Kenya is running three months behind official schedule in its effort to build East and Central Africa’s largest port at Lamu. Officials say the first of the 32 berths will be ready in June, three months after its initial timeline of March. So far, the first berth of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport… Read More
Sand is being pumped again on a North Carolina beach, the eighth such project in 12 years in the same area. The StarNews of Wilmington reports the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began beach nourishment project began earlier this month along Wrightsville Beach. Crews will soon begin pumping sand on Ocean Isle Beach. Wrightsville will… Read More
A Jacksonville creek restoration project awaited by Avondale area residents for over a decade is finally on the verge of a City Council green light. In committees Tuesday and Wednesday: a bill (2018-8) to move forward on the restoration of Big Fishweir Creek. Urbanization and development over a course of decades made the tributary inhospitable… Read More
Chilika Development Authority (CDA) authorities have decided to extend the Balugaon channel, which serves as a vital route for breeding and migration of fish. The CDA will dredge a 5km extension from the existing channel that is 3.3km in length. The CDA officials said a pre-survey for excavation of the extended portion of the channel… Read More
The anticipated cost of dredging the Port of Ogdensburg and extending the facility’s marine docking terminal has risen by more than $2 million following a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to have the upgrades put out to public bid as two separate projects instead of one. Officials at the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port… Read More
City Commissioners received an update about the ongoing battle to complete the McKinley Channel flood control project on Tuesday evening. “Last time I was here in September, we gave you an update on the project status and we went back into a redesign update and I promised I’d come back with an updated cost estimate,… Read More
It might be only February but warmer weather is slowly making its way back to Southeastern N.C. For those who have been enjoying the somewhat warmer weather and decided to take in some sand and surf at Wrightsville Beach it would be hard to miss the large metal pipe running along the length of the… Read More
Members of the Dare County Waterways Commission made imminent plans at their meeting on Monday to speed up dredging in Hatteras Inlet in order to accomplish as much as possible before the March 31 deadline. Dredging the South Ferry Channel, also known as the Connecting Channel, in Hatteras Inlet is allowed from October 1 through… Read More
Often, the wheels of government action grind with excruciating slowness, but sometimes, “we’re from the government and we’re to help you” can be true. That would seem to be the case with the dredging of Collier Creek, now well underway after county officials fast-tracked the project on an emergency basis in the aftermath of serious… Read More
The federal-state Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act task force announced Thursday (Feb. 15) that it has approved spending $62 million to begin engineering and design work on four projects and to move two projects into construction. The task force’s Jan. 25 meeting to consider approval of the projects was cancelled by a government… Read More
China will dredge a middle section of the Yangtze to improve waterflow in the country’s longest river. The National Development and Reform Commission will fully finance the 4 billion-yuan (635 million U.S. dollars) project, making a 386.5 km-long waterway on the river suitable for heavy freight liners. Under the plan, by 2019 the waterway between… Read More
The Acadiana Planning Commission voted Wednesday to spend $25 million in federal funds on nine regional drainage projects, including four in Lafayette Parish that total $11.2 million. Two of the Lafayette Parish projects are in Youngsville and two are in Scott. Youngsville Mayor Ken Ritter said the coulees in his two projects, Bayou Parc Perdu… Read More
A SECOND major dredge is being planned for the Port River by Origin Energy. The electricity and gas supplier has applied to the State Planning Commission to dredge 70,000 cubic metres of sea matter to accommodate a fuel storage barge. The revelation comes as Planning Minister John Rau asks the Environment Protection Authority to investigate… Read More