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The city’s three downtown ponds have silted up to the point where geese and ducks can seemingly walk on water. “The last time they were dredged was over four decades ago, and it’s gotten so bad that the silt is finding its way into the harbor,” Milford Public Works Director Chris Saley said. “So we… Read More
The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection dealt a major blow to the plans by Little Egg Harbor Township and Tuckerton borough to use dredge material for a planned thin layer deposition on 50 acres on the Great Bay Boulevard Refuge Management Area owned by the state and the federal Edwin B. Forsythe National Refuge. This… Read More
Dredging is underway in Boston Harbor, day and night, as part of a federally and state-funded $350 million, 3 1/2 year project aimed to bring bigger container and industrial ships through the harbor shipping channels. The first phase is to make space for new sediment near Charlestown (shown above) and then deepen the Main and… Read More
A major dredging project will take nearly 300,000 cubic yards of clean, fine sand from the Housatonic’s shallow navigation channel and move it to Connecticut’s premier beachfront park. The sand is headed to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, as the dredging is expected to begin this week, officials said. The dredging will take the… Read More
Over $17 million will go towards beach replenishment projects in Bethany, South Bethany and Fenwick Island. The project will involve dredging 1.2 million cubic yards of sand from approved offshore borrow areas. The sand is pumped through a series of pipes onto the beaches of Bethany, South Bethany and Fenwick Island and then graded into… Read More
The first step toward a $41 million project to dredge PCBs and other toxins from the Hudson River near a former Rensselaer dye factory is expected to start this fall. BASF Corp. will begin by installing more than 500 feet of new steel bulkhead to toughen a seawall along the Hudson on Riverside Avenue, according… Read More
The Ascension Parish President was one of three to send a letter to the Pontchartrain Levee District (PLD) requesting action on Bayou Manchac Dredging to enhance drainage in the area. Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa, East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, and Iberville Parish President Mitchell Ourso sent the letter to PLD President Ricky… Read More
A project to improve navigation at Rhodes Point on Smith Island and to rebuild part of the shoreline is expected to get underway in November. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a $6.88 million contract to a Virginia company to begin the project. Coastal Design & Construction Inc. of Gloucester, Virginia, was awarded… Read More
Former City of Fayetteville manager George Shuff, of Minden, said that a refusal by federal, state and county agencies to dredge Arbuckle Creek has led to floodwaters carrying PCBs onto residents’ properties from a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site. EPA crews began a cleanup effort, evacuating about 200 yards of contaminated soil… Read More
The 10th Street Boat Ramp in Sarasota will be temporarily closed due to dredging. All six boat ramps will be closed from Oct. 9-12 and reopen on Oct. 13. The contractor dredging the 10th Street Boat Basin is advancing toward the boat ramps. Boaters are asked to use the next closest ramp at in the… Read More
The construction work has started this month of September at the Port of Naantali to extend an existing quay from 178m to 228m. The extension will create additional vessel handling infrastructure, something that will support especially Finnlines plans of expanding its traffic with larger vessels between Finland, Åland and Sweden. Source: SHIPPAX
Since last spring, the hopper dredge Terrapin Island has been making passes along the mouth of the Columbia River, vacuuming up the slough from a shipping channel that handles about 46 million tons of cargo annually. An estimated 10 million cubic yards of sediment is removed from the shipping channel each year and placed in… Read More
Muskogee City-County Port Authority directors authorized the execution of an agreement that would allow the future use of port property as a disposal site for dredge material. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the site for such use years ago and has “from time to time and on numerous occasions” been used by the… Read More
A fix for a Naches River levee that was damaged during spring flooding may be coming soon. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is requesting public comments on four options for a possible fix: no action; move all nearby buildings, utilities and other amenities protected by the levee; remove and replace the levee; or restore… Read More
Workers with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are set to start scooping toxic sludge from the bottom of the Gowanus Canal the first week of December and will begin prepping for the excavation next week, officials said. Starting on Oct. 5, barges will cruise into the heavily polluted canal’s Fourth Street Basin, where dredging will… Read More