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Lowering twin suction arms into the water, the federal dredge Currituck sucks sand out of the Stage Harbor channel, and into the open hopper running stem to stern in the 146-foot-long vessel. A short steam away, and the clam shell bottom of the dredge swings open depositing as much as 315 cubic yards per load… Read More
Dredging crews left the Hudson River two years ago, but criticism of the $1.7 billion cleanup is bubbling up again. Advocates who want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to order crews back on the river are expected in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday night as the agency holds a public meeting on its review of the Superfund… Read More
Consumers Energy has begun dredging the Flint River near the University of Michigan-Flint campus. They’re removing pollutants that have been collecting there for 100 years. In the early 1900s, there was a plant on the banks of the river that turned coal into a burnable gas. Coal tars were a side product that were dumped… Read More
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) announced this week that the recovery efforts facing the Lower Menominee River Area of Concern (AOC) have reached two major advances. Contamination by industrial activities had led to the river’s AOC designation as far back as 1987, under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. It was found to… Read More
It’s going to take more federal money to keep the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project on time and on track, said Georgia’s congressional delegation in a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee. The letter warned that underfunding the massive civil works project could cost the country more than $1 billion. Led by U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter,… Read More
Citizens Water has begun dredging Hinkle Creek at Little Chicago Road bridge. Representatives indicate this is a one-step removal process, meaning that the excavator dumps the sediment onto the barge, then unloads the sediment into dump trucks that haul the sediment to a dump site. Citizens expects the dredging of this portion of Hinkle to… Read More
The Town of Sandwich is looking into dredging Old Harbor to clear excess sand that has drifted and blown there over the years, and to use that sand to help shore up Town Neck Beach. The proposal for the work was brought to the Sandwich Board of Selectmen on June 15. Although the selectmen seemed… Read More
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled against beachfront homeowners who are seeking to block the state from taking parts of their land for shoreline replenishment projects. Owners of about two dozen properties on Long Beach Island and in northern Ocean County claim the state doesn’t have the authority to take private property for the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed with calls from area legislators to extend public comment on its plans to dredge part of the Mississippi River near Wabasha. Previously set to end Friday, the Corps said in a press release that it decided to extend the public comment period after listening to community concerns… Read More
A proposal to perform maintenance dredging in Duck Key’s manmade canals could hit rough water Wednesday. Monroe County Planning Commission members, meeting at 10 a.m. at the Marathon Government Center, will hear issues including a pending ordinance change that could permit maintenance dredging on Duck Key’s manmade canals. A current plan submitted by the Duck… Read More
THE Department of Environment Land Water and Planning (DELWP) is about to begin designing a rock seawall to provide “long term protection” to the foreshore and beach at Portsea. The department says other works will improve access to the beach east of the seawall. The decision to replace the existing sandbag seawall with a rock… Read More
In an effort to curb flooding around Belmont Creek, a multi-jurisdictional group of agencies is teaming up to devise ways to redirect the flow of the waterway running through Belmont and parts of San Carlos and unincorporated San Mateo County. Though widening an underground pipe along Harbor Boulevard and restoring the creek bed on the… Read More
A low-income, minority community says it’s fed up with carrying the burden of legacy toxic waste. East Chicago residents gave state and federal environmental officials an earful at an informational meeting Thursday night, pushing back against U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ plans to store more toxic sediment dredged from the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal… Read More
Port Otago’s $650,000 split hopper barge Hapuka had its first day at work yesterday, taking spoil from upper-harbour dredging for dumping at sea. Port Otago received its latest Environment Court dredging consent earlier this month and now has all necessary consents in place covering maintenance and development dredging for the next 20-25 years. Port Otago’s… Read More
Dredging operations at Lake Gregory’s South Shore finished earlier this week and crews from the county’s contractor have moved to the San Moritz area to begin dredging in front of Leisure Shores Community Center. “We removed about 3,600 cubic yards of [sediment] from in front of the South Shores parking lot,” reported Jimmy Bon, project… Read More