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“Keeping the boat basin dredged is critical for the safety of all mariners and can make the difference to our many small business’s ability to be successful,” said Michael Saindon, Manager, Port of Garibaldi. “With the help of the Port of Coos Bay and the State-owned dredge, we can keep the port dredged at a… Read More
Halting the stalled Carolina Beach Lake dredging project seemed to be the favored option among members of the town council at a workshop meeting Tuesday morning. “It sounds like a lot of dollar signs and too many complications for me,” Mayor Pro Tem Leann Pierce said. The idea behind the project is to dredge the… Read More
Nearly two years after locals, visitors and town officials began voicing their frustrations about an increasingly shallow basin, a welcome sight appeared in town: a dredge boat. A crew from Jade Creek Construction LLC, of Manassas, Va., began work Monday morning to deepen the Chesapeake City basin, also known as Back Creek basin due to… Read More
City officials in Decatur say progress is moving along on the Lake Decatur dredging effort and the project could be done ahead of schedule. Interim Decatur Public Works director Matt Newell says about 76 percent of the work has been done and there’s a possibility work will be finished by the end of next year…. Read More
A flurry of activity is underway to prepare for the long-awaited restoration of the San Elijo Lagoon, a nearly $120 million project planned for decades that starts in December. Biologists are surveying birds, fish, water quality and other details of wildlife in the lagoon to collect baseline data before the dredging begins, said Doug Gibson,… Read More
It’s a project years in the making that’s set to open late next year. “It’s terrific, it’s long overdue,” Joshua Ekau, a Nanakuli resident said. The Department of Land and Natural resources is proposing to dredge the entire length of the Ala Wai Canal from the Kapahulu Library to the Ala Moana Boulevard Overpass. “I… Read More
A month after the government’s ministerial panel okayed Indo-Sino companies to dredge Wular Lake, the multi-crore project has hit a roadblock as “a few members” of the panel have expressed reservations over the panel’s recommendations, official sources told Kashmir Reader. Now the contract to be signed between the government and the private companies has been… Read More
SEVEN years on from Cyclone Yasi and Mick and Linda Edwards are still battling. They lost their Port of Call Boating and Fishing Supplies business in the cyclone. It wasn’t so much the damage to the shop, it was the damage to Cardwell. The yachts, the big boats that used to call in to anchor… Read More
Efforts to dredge Lockwood Folly Inlet could be under way by next spring, but right now, county leaders can’t say who will get the sand if the project proceeds. The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement Monday night that will allow APTIM, an environmental engineering and consulting firm, to assess feasibility and provide… Read More
A DECISION by the Department for Infrastructure to continue to allow sand dredging at Lough Neagh has been branded a “disgrace” by environmental campaigners. Five companies are to be permitted to continue dredging sand from the lough, which is used to supply the construction industry, but with conditions attached. The work does not currently have… Read More
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