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The Vallejo City Council was wrought by anger Thursday night as two members discussed the role of an ad-hoc dredging committee and its association with a controversial south Vallejo project. Councilwoman Katy Miessner called out her fellow councilmembers, including Jess Malgapo for sending “mixed messages” to the Vallejo Marine Terminal (VMT) and Orcem Americas applicants…. Read More
It could cost the city of Kent an estimated $10 million to dredge Mill Creek in order to reduce flooding on 76th Avenue South and other streets along the sediment-clogged channel. “It could exceed that,” City Public Works Director Tim LaPorte said about his estimate. City officials hope to get state funds to help pay… Read More
General Electric Co. will not be required to remove more cancer-causing PCBs from the Hudson River in the near future despite calls from New York officials and other federal agencies to do so, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials announced Thursday. EPA officials have determined that the dredging of 2.8 million cubic yards of polluted mud… Read More
Engineers will talk about the city’s plan to dredge the back bay at a town hall meeting Saturday morning at the Tabernacle. ACT Engineering officials will present the plans for the 2017 dredging program and other long-term efforts to keep the lagoons and channels navigable, according to a press release from the city. Ocean City… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and contractor Weeks Marine have begun one of the nation’s biggest beach replenishment projects to date, a $128 million effort to pump 11 million cu. yds. of sand along 14 miles of New Jersey’s coastline. That heavily developed stretch of northern Ocean County was devastated by Hurricane Sandy in… Read More
Harbors in Gulfport and Pascagoula are about to get an influx of cash to pay for dredging work. Wednesday, Senator Thad Cochran announced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will allocate an additional $67.5 million in FY2017 appropriations in Mississippi. The Army Corps of Engineers Work Plan includes $3 million more for dredging the Gulfport… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently reviewing the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection’s permit application for a project to clear dangerous shoals from Little Egg Inlet, a major thoroughfare for boat traffic between southern Long Beach Island and Brigantine to the south. “We are still coordinating issues with the federal resource agencies and… Read More
The City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority approved emergency repairs to halt further damage to a bank of the Verdigris River that posed an immediate danger. The record-setting April rainfall along with releases from Lake Oologah resulted in a patch of erosion about 60 feet long, 150 feet deep and 40 feet high on one… Read More
Oregon’s elected officials in Washington D.C. secured from the Army Corps of Engineers $2.1 million for much-needed dredging of small ports, including $800,000 for Gold Beach. The announcement followed a letter penned by Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and Rep. Peter DeFazio, and Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer requesting money for small ports in… Read More
One of the areas hit hardest by last summer’s flooding in northern Wisconsin is set to see an infusion of cash to rebuild. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set aside $1.375 million to help repair damages to Saxon Harbor in Iron County. Intense rainfall from the July 11 storm washed boats and debris… Read More
Each spring a company under contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredges an average of 90,000 cubic yards of mud out of the Dillingham harbor. The Corps estimates that if this was not done for just a few years, the harbor would become unusable to the hundreds of commercial fishing vessels that port… Read More
Warrenpoint Port has been told it must set out the impact of a proposal to dispose of dredging material close to protected parts of Carlingford Lough. Until now, spoil from the harbour and channel has been dumped at sea miles off the County Down coast. But, the port now wants to deposit the material in… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released their Fiscal Year 2017 Work Plan which allocated $29.25 million towards to the Delaware River Main Channel Deepening Project. That money, combined with the $33 million that Congress approved earlier in the month, represents the final federal appropriations to complete the deepening of the Delaware River navigation channel… Read More
The Maspalomas dunes could disappear within 100 years unless the current loss of sand is reversed, according to experts. The dune and beach ecosystem has lost 45,000 cubic metres of sand per year for 50 years. It stopped being self-sustaining when tourist development in the Maspalomas and Playa del Inglés area hemmed in the dunes… Read More
State Sen. Sharon Hewitt says she was responding to her constituents’ concerns about flooding when she added four St. Tammany Parish rivers to proposed legislation that would allow dredging, “desnagging” and clearing on some of Louisiana’s scenic rivers. But when she added the Pearl, Tchefuncte, Bogue Falaya and Abita rivers to the list of streams… Read More