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Around-the-clock dredging and recharging at Dawlish Warren – part of a £14million beach management scheme – has seen planned works to shore up the western end of the beach completed a month early. The Environment Agency (EA) says the equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools full of sand have been pumped onto the beach at… Read More
The fiscal year 2017 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers work plan was announced on May 24, 2017, and included funding to maintain critical navigation infrastructure near the Ports of Ilwaco and Chinook. The navigation channels leading from the Columbia River into the ports are federally authorized and, depending on funding, maintained by the U.S. Army… Read More
Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company has successfully completed the work on deepening the channels leading to the Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory, as well as to the production site, located on the territory of the Amec-Tekfen-Azfen (ATA Yard), commissioned by the Saipem oilfield services company under the project Shah Deniz-2. The company reported that during the first… Read More
Port of Kalama commissioners Wednesday awarded a $1.1 million contract to Vancouver-based HME Construction for maintenance dredging at TEMCO grain terminal, and they also approved a salary hike for port employees. The dredging project will remove approximately 108,000 cubic yards of sand from the Temco berthing area. Dredging will start in the first two weeks… Read More
The equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools full of sand have been pumped onto the Dawlish Warren beach as part of a £14million engineering project which is aimed at reducing the risk of flooding to over 2,900 properties. The scheme involves increasing sand levels at the beach to protect defences through sand replenishment, replacing and… Read More
Port Houston has completed a channel-deepening project that will allow heavier loading of ships with containers of heavy cargoes such as synthetic resins. Executive director Roger Guenther said dredging of the port’s Bayport terminal had been completed, and that the US Army Corps of Engineers will maintain the channel to a depth of 48.5 feet,… Read More
The first leg of an 8-mile beach widening project was completed Wednesday evening when Great Lakes Dredge and Dock wrapped up work on a section of the Town of Duck’s shoreline. Pumping is already under way in Kill Devil Hills, which was started earlier than planned because two of the company’s dredges were able to… Read More
A major dredging project at the George B. Stevenson Dam at Sinnemahoning State Park is completed, an official announced this week. Workers are now finishing paving the boat launch area along with the main park road from the boat launch area to the top off Goss Road and rechanneling Brook’s Run stream to prevent sediment… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reversing its schedule and will replenish dunes in Margate instead of Ventnor. Operations were halted in Ventnor because of bad weather and maintenance work on machines, reported (http://bit.ly/2ts9s5S ) Philly.com. “One of the two hopper dredges scheduled to do the work is now down for maintenance for approximately… Read More
The NSW Government is calling for tenders for the construction of a rock groyne to control erosion at South Entrance beach. The NSW Government is calling for tenders for the construction of a rock groyne to control erosion at South Entrance beach. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald MLC said the NSW Government… Read More
Going into the final day of the 2017 long session last week, the fate of dozens of environmental provisions, some in multiple bills, was still an unknown. The measures include coastal stormwater changes, the creation of a new coastal storm damage mitigation fund to pay for beach re-nourishment, new dredging plans and repeal of the… Read More
A mucky gray mix of gravel, sediment and peat rolls up conveyor belts and plops onto piles along the shore of Pompton Lake each day, waiting for dump trucks to haul it away to a landfill in Pennsylvania. Since June 5, the largest phase of a long-anticipated three-year project to remove contaminated sediment from a… Read More
With the objective of meeting the crises related to flood triggered by incessant rainfall, the Irrigation and Flood Control (IFC) Department officials are mulling large-scale dredging exercise along major rivers that pass through Imphal. However, the IFCD engineers admitted that dredging exercise would not be an easy task. A company from abroad is likely to… Read More
A major drainage project is only steps away from getting the money needed to help with flooding problems for eastern Lafourche Parish south of the Intracoastal Waterway. The East Side Drainage Improvements Project has been designed by T. Baker Smith and is waiting on approval of a $4.75 million grant from the Louisiana Department of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Pomme de Terre Lake will host a final draft Shoreline Management Plan meeting from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 18, at the Pomme de Terre Project Office. Participants may attend at their convenience. The final draft Shoreline Management Plan for Pomme de Terre Lake establishes policy and… Read More