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Another nearly $2 million will be coming to Chautauqua County for dredging two local harbors. On Friday, Rep. Tom Reed has announced an additional $675,000 in funding for Barcelona Harbor and an additional $1.19 million for Dunkirk Harbor to aid with dredging projects. “We care about supporting jobs, trade, recreation and tourism in our communities…. Read More
Authorities at the Port of Charleston reported progress in plans to create the deepest navigation channel on the U.S. East Coast following approval US$17.5 million in federal funds for the project. The decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to approve the project will pave the way for increased breakbulk activity at the port through… Read More
J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday called for urgent and early completion of flood protection works in river Jhelum in view of coming rainy season. Chairing the maiden meeting of Cabinet Sub-Committee on Jhelum dredging, Mehbooba instructed that dredging of the river at Srinagar and Baramulla be intensified and earth-cutting at Bemina and Naidkhai… Read More
Dredges that will used to take sand from the Atlantic Ocean floor and transfer it to the beach are expected to finally arrive in Ortley Beach. Toms River officials said in a news release that the township officials had been notified Friday that the first trailing suction hopper dredge — the ship that suctions sand… Read More
Depoe Bay city officials say the city is facing an economic emergency. Heavy spring and winter rains have sent enormous amounts of silt into the Depoe Bay Harbor clogging the water way during low tides. The debris blocks vessels from fueling up at the harbor fuel dock, which adversely impacts fishing, charter boats and other… Read More
Palm Beach has one of the best restored beaches in the country, according to a national coastal preservation association. The American Shore & Beach Preservation Association announced Tuesday that Phipps Ocean Park is one of five locations on its annual list of the nation’s best restored beaches. Last winter and spring, the town spent $16.5… Read More
A lengthy beach replenishment project stretching from Long Branch to Loch Arbour will finally be completed next month. “It’s been ongoing for about 3 years now and that was done in multiple phases, primarily to deal with coastal protection,” New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin announced today. Martin made the announcement… Read More
Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi thanked the Central government and minister of road transport and highways and shipping Nitin Gadkari for sending hi-tech machines of Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) to Puducherry for the work of ambitious beach nourishment project. Apart from the hi-tech cutter suction dredger, which is already in service, a trailer suction… Read More
Broward County’s Port Everglades received unanimous approval today from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners to begin a $437.5 million expansion project to add new berths for larger cargo ships and install crane rail infrastructure for new Super Post-Panamax cranes. Currently, Port Everglades is berth constrained and additional dock space for cargo ships is… Read More
Oceanside’s beaches will be wider this year and there should be fewer big black pipes snaking across the sand at the height of the tourist season, Army Corps of Engineers officials said. The annual dredging operation carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers is going more smoothly this summer than last year, when a… Read More
The Port Chalmers Yacht Club is urging the Otago Regional Council to undertake a dredging programme at Back Beach and Careys Bay. Graeme Wall, of the club, made that point, linked to the club’s earlier written submission, at an Otago Regional Council draft annual plan hearing in Dunedin yesterday. Mr Wall indicated that Back Beach… Read More
City Council gave final approval Tuesday night for an $18.5 million bond ordinance to finance road construction, drainage upgrades, dredging projects and other public improvements that represent a major piece of Mayor Jay Gillian’s 2017 capital plan. Voting 6-0 on the funding package, Council has been working hand-in-hand with Gillian’s administration on what is shaping… Read More
A FERRY company, commuters and tourists have had a “big win” after the State Government revealed it would stump up $100,000 for emergency dredging works at the Ettalong channel in the next three months. The decades-old bureaucratic brawl over who is responsible for the channel’s dredging — now estimated to cost $5 million — was… Read More
A plan first announced two years ago to expand the cruise port of Falmouth to accommodate two of the world’s largest ships simultaneously is to be executed this year, pending approval from the planning authority. It will require the dredging and expansion of one of the two berths at the Falmouth pier. The berth to… Read More
The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has pressed into service a trailer suction hopper dredger in addition to its hi-tech cutter section dredger to deepen the outer channel near the Ariyankuppam breakwater for commencement of operation of the Puducherry port and also for the ongoing beach nourishment project. The Government of Puducherry had awarded the… Read More