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City Manager Ed Stinson said Brigantine received approval from the Army Corps of Engineers recently for a project aimed at protecting residents and property owners from storm surges and tidal flooding, but the approval fell short of what the city was hoping for. Brigantine is in negotiations with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bureau… Read More
A section of Pilot Bay will be closed as 500 cubic metres of sand is poured on the beach. Salisbury Wharf to the waka ama shed on Pilot Bay will be fenced off for public safety from November 13-15 as large trucks and machines work on the area during the day. Some car parking at… Read More
Surveys for the deepening of the navigation channel and interior area of Porto Comercial da Figueira da Foz (commercial port of Figueira da Foz) have started, with a term of execution of three months. This is the first stage of the study on deepening the draft, which aims to increase the current 6.5 metres to… Read More
It is not just Port Mansfield that would benefit if its ship channel was dredged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – South Padre Island would be helped greatly as well. There are parts of SPI where beach erosion reaches 15 feet a year. The sediment the Army Corps could dredge at Port Mansfield… Read More
It’s a critical week for the future kayak park in the heart of the Poudre River District. The city of Fort Collins is awaiting a final permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that is due any day. When it comes, it will signal the start of an $8.5 million park designed to electrify… Read More
While the Fountain Lake dredge permit is still not what the Shell Rock River Watershed District would like it to be, the watershed director of field operations said he sees potential that the lake will be dredged to the volume the district wants. At Thursday morning’s special meeting, Director of Field Operations Andy Henschel outlined… Read More
Crews have nearly completed a $28 million project to restore more than 600 acres of marsh and nourish another 310 acres on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority reported. The work, south of Slidell, is about 90 percent complete, CPRA said. Lake dredging, which supplied sediment to re-establish… Read More
As the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor shifts into full gear in its annual fight to keep the entrance channel open, a new challenge has sprung up this year. Santa Cruz County’s ongoing $4.7 million beach improvement and seawall project is “dead center” in the harbor’s dredged-up sand disposal site, at the adjacent Twin Lakes… Read More
A team of Belgian and Dutch dredging contractors hired to deepen the channel of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to 15 metres from 14 metres has put in a request to India’s biggest state-owned container port to be allowed to complete the ?1,966-crore contract a year earlier. The dredging work — which started on September… Read More
With a state-funded dredging project to maintain and ensure the safe navigation of the Forked River channels complete, the next phase, focusing on shallow navigational water courses near Barnegat Inlet, has already begun. The dredge project in the Forked River channels, which included Forked River, Forked River Middle Branch and Spur, the South Spur and… Read More
Lagos has begun the dredging and channelisation of four commercial ferry routes in a bid to upscale water transportation in a state bedeviled by road congestion. The routes being dredged are out of the 30 identified to drive water transportation and boost the tourism potential of the state. Adebowale Akinsanya, the commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure… Read More
Forget bus, train and flight, you can now take a more scenic route from Mumbai to Goa. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced on Tuesday that the Goa-Mumbai ferry service will restart from next month, December. This ferry service will be initiated under the Sagar Mala project – government’s initiative to modernize India’s ports. The Mumbai-Goa… Read More
The decision of the Centre for strategic sale of Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) may put a question mark over the proposed dredging harbour and training institute project at Antarvedi in East Godavari district. Though the State government in principle agreed to allot 200 acres for the project after DCI, which has its head office… Read More
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently completed an emergency dredging project in Keweenaw County to restore the Grand Traverse Harbor channel for commercial and recreational boating. The $246,230 dredging project, undertaken by Marine Tech, LLC of Duluth, Minnesota, through the DNR’s Parks and Recreation Division, pumped 9,000 cubic yards of sand to a beach… Read More
ONE Nation claims Labor’s dredge plan for Trinity Inlet is condemning Cairns to a future as Townsville’s poor cousin. The party’s candidate for Cairns, Ian Hodge, has slammed the Cairns Shipping Development Project to remove one million cubic tonnes of dredge spoil, arguing it should be just the first stage of a much larger project…. Read More