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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
Leland Harbor was granted federal funds for dredging despite the township’s recent declaration it would now dredge on its own. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allocated $500,000 of a $16.5 million bonus it received from Congress to scrape Leland Harbor’s shoals clean of sediment, according to a June 6 release. The announcement came just… Read More
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said he’s hoping the Dismal Swamp Canal will be completely reopen to boaters by this coming autumn. “I wish it was quicker,” Joel Scussel, the Corps’ Norfolk-based project manager for the Intracoastal Waterway, said over the phone Thursday afternoon. The Corps closed the canal, the nation’s oldest operating… Read More
Only 37.83 per cent of the targeted 15.17 lakh cubic meters has been dredged in Jhelum and flood spill channel in Kashmir valley, where 43,800 trees have been axed to clear the embankments of the river. Officials here today said that 5.74 lakh cubic meters have been dredged, against a target of 15.17 lakh cubic… Read More
Beachgoers rejoice! The largest beach-widening project ever undertaken on the Outer Banks is two weeks ahead of schedule two weeks after it began. Operations began May 23 on the 1.7 miles due for widening in Duck. Three dredges pumping up to 5,000 cubic yards of sand an hour have completed two sections totaling about 3,100… Read More
After losing precious one year to excuses, authorities have expedited the dredging process in river Jhelum for its timely completion. Official records accessed by Greater Kashmir reveal that in May 2017, the dredging was carried for eighteen to twenty hours in Sopore. However, in Srinagar, 278 hours were lost as dredgers were not allowed to… Read More
It would drop the price tag from around $700 million to $484 million. JAXPORT is moving forward with plans to dredge 11 miles of the harbor- two miles fewer than their initial plan called for. The scaled back project was first floated about two years ago, but JAXPORT now confirms to WOKV that it is… Read More
DREDGING of Trinity Inlet could begin next year with the State Government pledging $120 million to bring a new breed of cruise ships into the Port of Cairns. Treasurer Curtis Pitt (right) will put to rest years of delays and uncertainty when he unveils the Cairns Shipping Development funding bombshell today. The project will widen… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district office in Detroit announced this week that it has received an additional $16.5 million from Congress for dredging and infrastructure repairs in the Great Lakes region, including an allocation for the Grand Haven harbor. “I am glad to see the Army Corps continue to recognize the economic importance… Read More