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The finish line is in sight for construction work to be completed on South Quay, the first phase of Poole Harbour Commissioner’s (PHC) masterplan. To be operational from January 2018, the £10m expansion at the UK south coast port will draw a close to the seven year project. South Quay will provide longer and deeper… Read More
The City of Bethel is making progress on its Sewer Lagoon Rehabilitation Project, which entails dredging the primary lagoon cell and repairing the sheet pile jetty. This article tells the dredging story. It took the City two years to line up grant funding, six months to hire an engineer firm, three months to design the… Read More
The Barnstable Town Council has voted to approve a long term draft wastewater treatment plan. The move follows the release of a draft report from the town’s Water Resources Advisory Committee advising town officials on how best to deal with their municipal water issues. The material was compiled into an action plan designed to preserve… Read More
Wrightsville Beach was notified yesterday that the funding for a $9.5 million winter beach renourishment project was formally awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, fulfilling another four-year cycle for the project that replaces sand on the beach strand, which local leaders say is critical for the beach economy. The $9.5 million cost of… Read More
A dredging project off of Fort Myers Beach is complete a week early, saving thousands of taxpayer dollars — all thanks to Hurricane Irma. The project along the Big Carlos Pass was meant to create an easier passage through the channel for boats. Crews said they had to move their equipment right before the hurricane… Read More
The city of San Diego received the green light to remove nearly 63 acres of bay bottom in Mission Bay, Oct. 12, as coastal commissioners approved a comprehensive dredging project during their October meetings in Chula Vista. An estimated 483,880 cubic yards of sediment had accumulated in Mission Bay during a 10-year period between 1997… Read More
DREDGING supporters have ramped up calls that Trinity Inlet be dredged to let in more cruise ships in the wake of the traffic crash at Yorkeys Knob on the weekend. Dozens of cruise ship passengers were stuck in traffic along Yorkeys Knob Rd on Saturday morning after a bus and a car collided near the… Read More
Design work for Arconic’s cleanup of the Grasse River will continue through 2018 and, although a “minimal amount” of contaminated sediment is being removed from the Grasse River this year, removal of the remainder of the contaminated sediment probably won’t begin until 2019, according to an official from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Young Chang,… Read More
The dregs along an estimated 22 miles of river bottom will be sampled as part of study leading to development of a fleeting area for the Tulsa Port of Catoosa. A section of Bird Creek going west from the port and the Verdigris River heading north will be sampled for about 9 and 12 miles… Read More
Dredging works in Dublin Port that began yesterday are to continue to March 2018 which will involve moving loaded material out to sea and dumped in Dublin Bay, writes Jehan Ashmore. The works are part of the Capital Dredging Programme 2017 that arise from the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment (ABR) Project which is phase one of… Read More
Port of Brownsville commissioners are looking at forming a new taxing district that would raise taxes on properties in the port district to pay for a series of improvements to the port’s marina. After hearing extensive public comment against the creation of an industrial development district (IDD) Wednesday night, a split on the port’s board… Read More
A ministerial panel has held the massive Rs 376-crore dredging project in Wular Lake hostage, even as a joint venture of two companies qualifies to work on it. The 7-member panel of cabinet ministers led by Convener Lal Singh, Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment (FE&E), was formed by the government over a month ago… Read More
Cruise Broome chairman Shayne Murray expects a A$7m dredging project at Port of Broome in Western Australia to be completed before next year’s annual conference of the Australian Cruise Association. ACA 2018 will be held at Cable Beach Club Resort & Spa, situated on the 22km-long Cable Beach, from September 14-16. Last year Carnival Australia… Read More
The management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has expressed optimism that the long-awaited dredging of the Escravos bar that had impeded the coming in of big vessels and other ocean going barges to Warri Port would soon commence. The Escravos Bar dredging is part of measures being put in place to make the seaport commercially… Read More
With a green light from the EPA, the city is poised to win a $15 million federal TIGER grant to at last begin bulkhead construction and dredging at the harbor’s under-used North Terminal, to expand its uses and take some off the pressure off of the rest of the harbor, which is straining at capacity…. Read More