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A 45.6 m-long dredger vessel coming from Visakhapatnam got drifted towards Kodiakarai coast in the district due to strong winds, police said today. However, all the nine crew members on board the vessel are safe, they said. The vessel MV Enrich Shreya-IV, was proceeding to Mandapam in Ramanathapuram district and got drifted towards Kodiakarai coast… Read More
There’s a new boss in town, hired to keep a tight rein on the $4 million cleanup project to dredge and remove invasive Eurasian milfoil weeds from Stockbridge Bowl. The Select Board recently voted 3-0 to appoint contractor and former engineer Gregg Wellencamp, a director of the private Stockbridge Bowl Association, as a special town… Read More
The Barnegat Bay Inlet area should be a little easier to navigate once the state Department of Transportation completes an $8.7 million project to dredge channels in off Forked River. The channels to be dredged include Double Creek Mainland, Double Creek Inlet, High Bar Harbor and Barnegat Light Stake. The Double Creek Inlet channel has… Read More
Environmental experts, always concerned about the water quality of Lake Seminole, are assessing how much Hurricane Irma may have stirred up the nearly 1 million cubic yards of muck that lay on the bottom. “There are so many nutrients stored in those sediments,” Pinellas County Environmental Management division director Kelli Levy said. “Every time they… Read More
As the community gears up for fall Town Meeting and a new 10-year Master Plan, the topic of dredging – or removing layers of sand and silt that have built up in navigational channels and make it difficult for boats to get through – has come up several times. Wareham’s Planning Department, Department of Natural… Read More
Plans to dredge 300,000 tonnes of mud from near a disused nuclear plant and dump it off Cardiff Bay have been criticised. A marine pollution expert claims the mud from near Hinkley Point in Somerset could expose people to radioactivity. EDF Energy, the company behind the plans, said the work was not harmful to humans… Read More
San Mateo County Harbor District officials are navigating federal regulations as they aim for a pilot project that could stem erosion at Surfers Beach and help protect against sea level rise. Slow but steady progress is being made in the yearslong effort to dredge Pillar Point Harbor and use the material to bolster Surfers Beach…. Read More
A town council has cast a majority vote against dredging the Goodwin Sands. Dover members vote nine against three to formally object to the plans in the current public consultation. It followed a motion by Cllr Callum Warriner who is anxious to protect war graves in the area. He asked the council to write to… Read More
Work continues along the South Carolina beaches to renourish what Mother Nature has wash away. Beach renourishment typically happens every eight to 10 years and some coastal communities are long overdue after multiple storms barreled across the beaches the last few years. The Myrtle Beach Shore Protection Project is broken down into three categories–Reach 1,… Read More
Two hurricanes have delayed the start of beach widening and dune construction in some of the New Jersey shore towns hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy five years ago. Work in Mantoloking was supposed to have started within the last week or so, but hurricanes Jose and Maria have prevented that from happening. The barrier island… Read More
State and federal environmental officials said Thursday they are studying an option for off-site disposal and capping of contaminated sediment “hot spots” in the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal. The decision comes after months of pressure from community groups and East Chicago residents, who argued granting the permit would create unnecessary health risks and fail as… Read More
Rockdale MP Steve Kamper says extra groynes should be constructed and existing structures repaired to combat erosion on Lady Robinsons Beach. Mr Kamper was speaking in State Parliament following the Leader’s report on continuing loss of foreshore, with the beach at Ramsgate baths the latest to be washed away. The MP said “report after report”… Read More
The borough assembly Monday voted again to move forward with a dredging study for Petersburg’s South Harbor. The borough will sign an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the best course forward for dredging South Harbor. Cost of the dredging could be around five million dollars. Just to study that work… Read More
A FERRY captain is under investigation by Roads and Maritime Services after he ran aground in the silted up Ettalong channel in July. Fantasea Cruising which owns the vessel involved has defended its skipper, placing the blame squarely on inadequate dredging of the frequently dangerous channel. The company’s head of sales and marketing Wendy Harch… Read More
Plans are under way to dredge a portion of Winnapaug Pond after the town received word Monday that $2.1 million in federal funding has been approved for the project. The coming weeks and months will include a whirl of activity as the project must be completed by Jan. 31 to satisfy federal grant requirements and… Read More