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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
For years, the Port St. Joe Port Authority has operated with something approaching a hurry-up-to-wait momentum. Now, some giddyup is evident in the hurry-up. With Triumph Gulf Coast legislation signed into law and the first payment, of which Gulf County receives $15 million, headed to the bank, with $12 million in state appropriations headed to… Read More
The Cipero River has not been dredged for seven years but after the passage of Tropical Storm Bret, San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello personally supervised its cleaning yesterday. Regrello, who served as deputy mayor for three years, said he did not know the river needed dredging and it was only when Bret passed and homes… Read More
As work continues to deepen the Haines small boat harbor, phase two of the expansion project is headed to design. Phase two, a sport fishing ramp, is a collaboration between the borough and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. ADF&G plans to pay for the ramp with federal dollars. After controversy over the first… Read More
Union Minister for Road, Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate cargo operations which will resume from the port here in August. Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Tuesday met Mr. Gadkari and apprised him of the progress of port development works. Mr. Gadkari has agreed to attend the inaugural function, slated to be held… Read More
Dredging at the confluence of the Guyandotte and Ohio rivers began Tuesday near the Guyandotte boat ramp. “The need for dredging typically arises in the approach areas to the lock and dam projects, as well as several naturally occurring sediment bars, tributary confluences, harbors and boat ramps,” said Chuck Minsker, a public affairs specialist with… Read More
Authorities at the National Port Authority or NPA announced Monday June 19, 2017 that they have completed the dredging of the Freeport of Monrovia to a depth of 13.5 meters and in some places, 14.5 meters, in order to accommodate larger and wilder vessels, provide for safe navigation and facilitate trade and commerce. The dredging… Read More
Hundreds of dump trucks of sediment that’s been accumulating at the bottom of Lake Linganore for the last 45 years will be dredged up and used to help county landfill operations as part of a multi-year project that’s set to begin the construction phase soon. The Frederick County government is taking the lead in a… Read More
Town officials in Wellfleet are hoping recent some new federal funding announced last week bodes well for the planned Harbor dredging project. Congressman Bill Keating helped secure $150,000 from the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the Federal Channel at the Harbor. That will be a central component of the overall $13 million dollar project,… Read More
The long-awaited Absecon Island dunes project will get underway in Ventnor this week, more than three weeks later than the most recently announced schedule. NJ Department of Environmental Protection and Army Corps of Engineers officials said the hopper dredge owned by Weeks Marine, Inc. of Cranford, which successfully bid on the $63 million project, was… Read More