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Keith Amirault, Commodore of Digby’s Royal Western Nova Scotia Yacht Club, applauds the Digby Port Harbour Association’s plans to dredge the harbour and says it’s much needed. He also says his marina needs the same. Amirault says the club has been in talks with likeminded parties that dredging would be good news for the yacht… Read More
When the Siesta Key Association filed a motion in one of two legal proceedings surrounding a proposal to dredge Big Pass, the court received a response from six of the seven involved parties. The only one that didn’t respond? The city of Sarasota. When Lido Key residents found out, they were discouraged. Residents who have… Read More
An updated agreement with the state will allow inlet-dredged sand to be placed on town beaches farther south of what is now permitted, officials say. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredges the Lake Worth Inlet every two years to maintain the navigational channels. The federal agency has been placing the dredged sand on island… Read More
With a growing number of slips at the Town Marina unusable due to mud getting deeper (and water, therefore, shallower), Clinton has applied for Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) grant that will allow for dredging and repairs to the boat launch that, if approved, will begin in 2018. The Board of Selectmen… Read More
The expert commission of the State Environmental Impact Assessment has granted EIA approval for maintenance dredging project (2017-2024) in the basin of the Port of Kaliningrad, FSUE Rosmorport said. The annual dredging of the seaport access channels is required due to natural sedimentation. The project includes dredging annually up to 1.25 million cbm of materials… Read More
North Shore Road resident Maureen Merrigan often enjoys Greer Island, also known as Beer Can Island. She walks its beaches. She fishes and paddles kayaks in its cove. As sand has built up on the island’s east side, nearly connecting it with the mainland, it has become more difficult for her to enter the lagoon… Read More
At the end of March 2017 the Petr Sablin dredger arrived at the Volga-Caspian Marine Canal site 138-139 km and on the 1st of April started repairing dredging operations, says FSUE Rosmorport. According to the activity schedule for dredging operations the Astrakhan Branch expects to extract 1,1 mln cbm of the bottom soil with the… Read More
The estimated cost to restore the old Smoky Hill River channel through Salina has doubled since the master plan was approved in 2010, the project manager told the Salina City Commission in a study session Monday. Eric Dove, with HDR, said his Omaha, Neb.-based engineering company wants to begin developing a preliminary design with a… Read More
The dredging of the entrance to Brisbane Water is “some years away, or may not happen at all”, a local planning consultant has claimed. Funds for the dredging have not been reserved in the current budget and would not be considered by Central Coast Council before next financial year, according to Ms Helen Monks, director… Read More
Like massive shop vacuums on floating platforms, two hydraulic dredgers started sucking contaminated muck off the bottom of Cedar Creek on Monday as part of Mercury Marine’s ongoing removal of toxic chemicals from the stream. Dredger operators are guided by GPS to previously identified sediment layers containing unsafe amounts of industrial chemicals known as PCBs,… Read More
Taking strong exception to slow pace of dredging of river Jhelum, the state government on Monday put the Kolkatta based dredging firm on notice. Officials said the firm could not meet the January 2017 deadline which was later extended till April 16. However, the firm couldn’t meet the target. . Official sources told Greater Kashmir… Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers and the NYSDEC will be holding a public meeting this Thursday, April 20 at 7:30pm in Long Beach City Hall regarding the Beach Protection Project. Source: Long Beach NY
The cost of dredging Sarnia Harbour and relocating “slightly contaminated” sediment to the airport has jumped by a quarter-million dollars. The total project cost now stands near $3.2 million after $254,000 was recently added to the contracted price for Quebec-based Ocean Dredging DM Inc. The work wrapped up in January. Economic Development Director Peter Hungerford… Read More
WATCHET’S tourist industry is being hampered by the rising level of mud in the harbour, particularly in the outer harbour, councillors were warned at their annual town meeting on Tuesday (April 11). Local resident Sam Westmacott, previously involved in several studies into the state of the harbour, told the meeting that, although £2.5 million had… Read More
The Cuyahoga River is being dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers once again, and as WKSU’s Kabir Bhatia reports, the Port of Cleveland says communication will be key to keeping the shipping channel clear in the future. A long-running dispute between the Army Corps and the port over where to dispose of dredged material… Read More