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Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority announces Tender for Dredging of Two Marine Channels

Ukraine

Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) will carry out operational dredging of the Bug-Dnieper-Lyman Canal (BDLC) and Kherson Sea Canal (KSC) to support their technical characteristics and operating conditions. Expected cost of works is UAH 111.99 million. The volume of dredging is 1.026 million cubic meters. Dredging is planned to be carried out within four months… Read More

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PhilaPort Secures Federal Funding for Dredging Project

United States

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Rep. Bob Brady, D-Pa., joined with local officials at the Port of Philadelphia’s Packer Avenue Marine Terminal on Friday, Aug. 25 to announce that funding has been secured to complete the Delaware River Deepening Project. The project, which has been in the works for 25 years, is deepening the… Read More

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New York Files Suit Against EPA Over Long Island Sound Dumping Plan

United States

New York State is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for dumping dredged materials in Long Island Sound. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday that the State of New York would be taking legal action against the EPA after it said in 2016 it would dump dredged materials into the eastern Sound…. Read More

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Boatie Worries Whanganui Slipway Too Silted up for Coastguard to Launch

New Zealand

A boatie who tried to launch in Whanganui ended up grounded and waiting for high tide. Bruce Edwards said he tried launching 90 minutes after low tide on August 23. His 5m boat got stuck, and he had to wait for high tide. Others with larger boats couldn’t launch at all for about three hours,… Read More

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Corps Wants International Paper’s Pipelines Moved Ahead of Savannah Harbor Deepening

United States

International Paper is evaluating pipelines under the Savannah River that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants removed and replaced to keep them out of the way of dredging as the harbor is deepened. Pipelines built in 1972 and 1989 connect the mill facility on Lathrop Avenue to its treatment facility on Hutchinson Island. The… Read More

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Port of Dover to Dredge North of Thames Estuary but Still Want Controversial Choice, Goodwin Sands off Deal

United Kingdom

Controvesial plans to dredge the Goodwin Sands have been scaled back. The Port of Dover, which has faced fierce opposition in its attempts to dig the sandbanks, will now take some of the aggregate from another site. It says it is still applying to dredge the sands, 7.5 miles away off Deal, but has found… Read More

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Dredging Helps Keep Gloucestershire Canal Route Clear

United Kingdom

Work is under way to remove 10,000 tonnes of silt from a Gloucestershire dock to improve navigation. The Canal & River Trust says the work at Sharpness Dock will keep the route from the River Severn into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal clear. It is using a mud pump to suck the silt from the… Read More

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Dredging the Dismal Swamp Canal: Tens of Thousands of Gallons Hauled Away as Crews Rush to Reopen Waterway

United States

Joel Scussel stood on a wooden dock along the Dismal Swamp Canal on a clear and somewhat cool summer morning. The dock at Arbuckle Landing sits by the end of the feeder ditch where water flows east from Lake Drummond, which is in the middle of the Great Dismal Swamp. The calm waterway Thursday was… Read More

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Countdown Hits Zero for Say on Trinity Inlet Dredging Plan

Australia

CAIRNS Regional Council’s call for the State Government to take responsibility for the dumping of Trinity Inlet dredge spoils has received backing from the Local Government Association of Queensland. Groups across the Far North are finalising their recommendations ahead of the closure of submissions to the project’s environmental impact statement at 5pm today. The council… Read More

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Tender-change Demand Dredges Trouble for JNPT Project

India

‘Vasco da Gama’, a huge trailing suction hopper dredger owned by Belgium group Jan De Nul N V, will reach the shores of Mumbai on August 29 to start work on a €250-million contract to deepen and widen the channel of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India’s busiest container port, to help dock bigger ships. But,… Read More

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Port of Coos Bay Moves Forward with Channel Modification Proposal

United States

The Port of Coos Bay is taking steps to move forward with a proposed channel modification project. The Army Corps of Engineers is opening a public scoping phase in preparation of an environmental impact statement. The project will expand the existing channel from 37 to 45 feet deep, and from 300 to 450 feet wide…. Read More

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County Executive Discusses Lakes Cleanup Project

United States

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced his plans for a $12 million project to remove the algae-making phosphorous to clean area lakes has begun. His Clean Lakes Community Forum Tour kicked off Monday at the Monona City Council meeting. Work on the first phase of Dane County’s four-year effort to remove phosphorus-laden sediment from streams… Read More

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Port Authority Defends Dredging in Montrose Erosion Row

United Kingdom

Montrose Golf Links, whose 450-year-old medal course is under threat from the erosion, has pointed the finger at the port for ‘wasting’ the dredged material by dumping it at Lunan Bay. Links director Chris Curnin claimed if the material was put onto Montrose beach in the correct position it would have a “significant impact and… Read More

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Still Time to Comment on Ship Channel Project

United States

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers thinks if it deposits sediment on the west side of the Matagorda Ship Channel instead of the east side, it won’t have to dredge as often. The deadline to comment on this proposed change is Sunday. Then, the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston’s division will… Read More

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Duck Key Property Owners Scale Back Canal Dredging Proposal

United States

Backers of a proposal to allow maintenance dredging in Duck Key’s canals scaled back a draft ordinance going to Monroe County planners next Wednesday. A revised Aug. 11 application from Duck Key Benefit Inc., a residents’ organization, drops language that could have allowed dredging in an access channel beyond Duck Key’s internal canal system, and… Read More

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