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Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan today convened a meeting to review the progress of ongoing dredging work on river Jhelum. Chief Engineer Irrigation and Flood control (I&FC), Deputy Director Planning, representatives from Reach Dredging Limited and other concerned officials attended the meeting. Chief Engineer I&FC informed the meeting that the contract of Jhelum dredging… Read More
With the dredging of Menemsha Channel still unfinished after two years, the Army Corps of Engineers has terminated its contract with J-Way Inc. of Avon, Ohio, directing the company to remove all of its equipment and restore the site. A notice of termination dated March 6 states that the company did not complete the project… Read More
Simon Gibson, MLA for Abbotsford-Mission, on behalf of Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto,announced $10 million in flood protection funding for the City of Abbotsford as part of the Province’s major investment in emergency preparedness and public safety. The funds are part of over $80 million in emergency preparedness funding announced by the… Read More
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today urged the Centre for dredging of Mahanadi River mouth at Paradip port. In a letter to Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari, Patnaik urged him to direct Paradip Port authorities for dredging of Mahanadi River mouth and navigational channel for Paradip fishing harbour. Describing Paradip… Read More
Dredging in the Intracoastal Waterway and Carolina Beach Inlet Crossing will cause certain campsites and beach areas to close. The US Army Corp of Engineers will start placing dredge pipe on Freeman Park south to Zone 10 and due to the small travel lane between Zone 10 and Zone 19, there will be no room… Read More
The project to make the Magdalena River in Colombia more navigable has been suspended: Odebrecht Bribery Plea Muddies Colombia’s Big River Project. Channelization of Magdalena River stalled over corruption fears, thwarting country’s ambitious infrastructure plans A string of gritty river towns along Colombia’s mightiest river have waited years for mounds of silt to be dredged… Read More
Boaters relying on navigation charts and buoys to traverse Little Egg Inlet on their way to and from the Atlantic Ocean could be in for a rude surprise this year — and maybe a damaged boat. Sandbars and shallows in the approaches to the scenic inlet migrate so often and unpredictably that the United States… Read More
Welfare and Port Minister M Kandasamy today asked the Port Department here to ensure that the dredging of the estuary off the coast in Thengaithittu was completed soon so that the development of the Puducherry port into a satellite port could take place expeditiously. After visiting the port, Kandasamy told reporters that Puducherry government and… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Charleston District is currently involved in the planning phase of a beach emergency repair in the Grand Strand (Myrtle Beach) of Horry County, South Carolina. The Myrtle Beach Project was authorized for construction by Section 101 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990, Public Law 101-640, dated… Read More
Individuals have until the end of the month to submit public comments to state and federal officials about the storing in a confined disposal facility contaminated sediment dredged from the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal. Specifically, the the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking comments… Read More
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has revealed that plans are underway to review Joint Venture agreements of the agency’s seaport channel management and dredging contracts following errors noticed in some of them. It would be recalled that the NPA, in 2005 entered into Joint Venture agreements worth around… Read More
Beach replenishment for the northern Ocean County peninsula is set to start the middle of next month, with Ortley Beach as the first spot to get the sand. State environmental protection officials said Weeks Marine Inc., the Cranford-based contractor selected to perform the $128 million project, will spend two weeks beginning mid-April pumping sand onto… Read More
The company running the Marsden Point Oil refinery says it understands locals’ concerns at its plans to dredge Whangarei Harbour. It wants a deeper, straighter channel to take bigger ships, moving 3.7 million cubic metres of sand. However, Patuharakeke trustee Juliane Chetham says they’re worried about the impact on shellfish and marine mammals. “The majority… Read More
Dozens of oystermen and coastal residents spoke out at a public hearing Thursday night, arguing that the state shouldn’t grant an oil and gas company a permit to dredge wetlands around a drilling site near Port Sulfur. But they can’t stop Hilcorp Energy Co. of Houston from dredging. The company already cut the channel back… Read More
Leitrim County Council is preparing a submission for maintenance works on rivers throughout Co Leitrim through the Office of Public Works (OPW). Cllr Sean McGowan had sought an update on the list of rivers in the county in need of cleaning and expressed a hope that a funding package could be secured through the OPW… Read More