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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is urging Secretary Robert Speer, the acting Army Secretary, to do more to educate those in Buffalo County who could lose their land, and for some their livelihood. The Army Corp of Engineers is proposing to acquire 489 acres of farmland through eminent domain to house sand that is dredged from… Read More
A major milestone has been reached in the Eden Breakwater Wharf Extension project with the announcement today that Heron Construction Company Ltd has been awarded the dredging contract. Member for Bega Andrew Constance said the dredging will signal the start of major works on the $44 million project that will see the Eden Breakwater Wharf… Read More
After the emergency dredging at Green Harbor wrapped up this year, Marshfield town officials began looking at ways to repurpose material dredged up in the future. Due to a misalignment of the jetties coming into Green Harbor, sediment builds up much quicker than it should, making the channel boaters use to get in and out… Read More
State Rep. Scott Dianda (D-Calumet) announced Wednesday that the state Department of Natural Resources has agreed to pay for the emergency dredging of Lake Superior’s Big Traverse Bay Harbor in Schoolcraft Township. Stamp sand has again nearly completely blocked the harbor and stopped boat traffic, potentially harming the region’s fishing industry. Stamp sand is crushed… Read More
Just like the river that’s eroding beaches and threatening property on Cape Horn and Puget Island shorelines, the requirement for permits to address the situation just keeps flowing. Wahkiakum County’s board of commissioners, acting as commissioners for four flood control zone districts (FCZD), have been working for two years to set up beach nourishment programs… Read More
The short term dredging of the Connecting Channel has paved the way for mariners to travel through Hatteras Inlet, but plans need to be made to keep the channel open in the weeks and months to come. This was the overlying message at the Dare County Waterways Commission meeting, which was held on June 12… Read More
Residents of Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor still have time to comment on a plan to dredge local creeks and lagoons and use the dredge fill in an area for marsh and storm protection. The material dredged from Thompson, Tuckerton and Rose creeks and several low areas in lagoons located in Tuckerton Beach and Osborn… Read More
THE Gold Coast’s biggest offshore dredging program has kicked off with a 111m long barge dredging tonnes of sand and pumping it toward beaches today. The $13.9 million Beach Nourishing Project aims to increase the amount of sand on open beaches which are vulnerable to erosion caused by powerful cyclones and wild surf. For the… Read More
Dredging at Rochester Harbor is scheduled for completion this week. Since 2013, more than $5 million in federal funding has been used to dredge Rochester’s port, which ships and receives an average of 95,000 tons of material each year. Commodities that pass through the harbor support 95 local jobs and generate more than $6 million… Read More
In what could be a first initiative of its kind in several years, four major reservoirs that form the source of drinking water supply for the city will be dredged. This is expected to improve storage capacity in the reservoirs at Poondi, Cholavaram, Red Hills, and Chembarambakkam. The water bodies supply nearly 65 % of… Read More
Workers have finished their two-month dredging of the Oceanside harbor, leaving a fresh coat of sand on beaches as the summer tourist season gets under way. The annual project keeps the entrance to the busy harbor deep enough for safe navigation. The sediment that’s harvested is pumped onto nearby beaches to replace what’s lost to… Read More
Opening Mossington wharf in Jackson’s Point back up to the public and dredging of the Black River will have to wait until after further environmental testing. Repair work on the wharf as well as the dredging of the river was supposed to have started in March as part of a grant agreement between the feds… Read More
Dredging work on Lamu first berth is on course and the project is scheduled for completion on March 2018. According to Sylvester Kasuku, the Director General to the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia- Transport (Lapsset) Corridor Development Authority, the dredging works that kicked off in October 2016 is in good progress whereby more than 20% of the… Read More
Non-availability of off-shore space for dumping is proving a big hurdle in the Jhelum dredging in Srinagar, though the authorities claim the dredging has been expedited. According to sources the firm roped in by the government for drudging of river Jhelum is facing problems due to non-availability of off-shore space in Srinagar for dumping the… Read More
Due to the efforts of the Louisiana and Arkansas congressional delegations, state and local groups, business and industry interests and the Ouachita River Valley Association, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will allocate an additional $2 million in fiscal year 2017 appropriations funding to dredge the Ouachita-Black Rivers Navigation Project in Arkansas and Louisiana, according… Read More