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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
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded contracts for dredging two Lake Michigan harbors to improve navigation. King Company of Holland will be paid $374,000 to dredge about 30,000 cubic yards of material from St. Joseph outer harbor and 34,000 cubic yards from Holland harbor. Material from both sites will be placed near the… Read More
Congressman Brian Higgins and U.S. Army Corps Buffalo District Commander Lt. Col. Adam Czekanski announced $4.6 million in federal funding for improvements along Buffalo’s Outer Harbor including breakwater repair and dredging. “The potential for our waterways to serve a much larger role in this community’s environmental and economic health is dependent on continual maintenance and… Read More
Despite recent flooding due to the rising waters of Lake Ontario, local officials are hailing a plan to invest $725,000 in the dredging of Wilson Harbor. “Even as the devastation of record high water levels has incurred millions of dollars in damage through destruction of docks and supporting infrastructure, this funding will play a part… Read More
The Federal Government has pledged to support the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) in her effort to acquire a bigger dredger for an all-year-round maintenance dredging of the nation’s inland channels. Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, made the pledge when he flagged off the maintenance dredging of River Niger from Ajaokuta to Onitsha at… Read More
HCMC – The government of HCMC has allowed the Department of Transport to put up a Soai Rap River dredging project for rebid, citing the impact of the volatile exchange rate between the local currency dong and the U.S. dollar. Tran The Ky, deputy director of the department, said the cost of phase one of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $2.45 million in federal funding toward Ocean City’s beach replenishment project, officials said. Rep. Andy Harris says this project will encourage growth in Ocean City’s tourism industry. “The beaches of Ocean City were severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012,” Rep. Harris said. “I am pleased to… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received a $24.83 million windfall of federal funds for projects on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, including additional money for work in the Cleveland and Lorain harbors, a corps spokesman said. Congress approved the additional funding for the Consolidated Appropriations Act on May 3. Last year, the Army Corps… Read More
Port Tampa Bay has secured a $9 million grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the widening and deepening of the Big Bend Channel in southern Hillsborough County. The channel project overall will cost $55 million, a press release said. The Big Bend Channel connects to the Tampa Harbor main channel and will… Read More