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The buildup of sand in Hampton/Seabrook Harbor has selectmen from both towns and state officials appealing to New Hampshire’s congressional delegation for help getting federal money to dredge. Hampton/Seabrook Harbor has a history of shoaling, where waves create sandbars. The shoals are a hazard for boaters, especially at low tide, when a vessel might become… Read More
Bald Head Island has applied for a federal permit to tap a portion of Frying Pan Shoals, an area that includes fish habitat protected under federal law, as a future sand mine source. The shoals, a line of shallow sandbars trailing from the southeastern tip of Bald Head Island some 30 miles into the Atlantic… Read More
San Mateo County Resource Conservation District staff is working feverishly to complete a grant proposal that may prove to be Pescadero’s ticket out of flooding that has killed endangered fish and cut access to the town each winter. Initially, the RCD planned to submit a grant proposal in June that would have funded only designs… Read More
Work to fill Margate’s beaches and build dunes will begin just before Memorial Day and run through Labor Day, according to a document published on Margate City’s website here. The city and some Margate homeowners went to court to try and prevent the dunes, but a judge in February ruled the project could go ahead…. Read More
As coastal erosion continues to threaten areas of the San Mateo County coastline with many suggesting the outer jetty at Pillar Point Harbor is exacerbating the degradation immediately south, locals have decided to take the reins after a federal agency declined to fund what some believe could be a solution — dredging the harbor. Last… Read More
DREDGING works in West Bay and Lyme Regis are set to being this weekend. West Dorset District Council will carry out the annual work in time for the busy summer season. The work at West Bay will being on Saturday (11) and last for eight days. No night shift work will be required to take… Read More
Tender documentation for two dredging projects in “Yuzhny” seaport was updated in e-procurement system “Prpzorro”, says Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. The working group of experts from Ukrainian Seaports Authority (USPA), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), as well as the law firm Arzinger has simplified the documentation in line with best world practices…. Read More
A discussion with a Singaporean company to dredge rivers in exchange for the excavated sand is underway, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said. He told the media at a programme in Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Sunday that the government was trying to have some of the big rivers dredged experimentally by foreigners. “They… Read More
Determined to reposition the National Inland Water Ways Authority (NIWA) to carry out one of its core mandates, its Managing Director, Barrister Boss Mustapha, has mobilized the organisation’s dredger to carry out maintenance dredging on Ajaokuta-Onitsha water ways. Mr. Mustapha made the declaration during the inauguration of the dredging committee at the NIWA headquarters in… Read More
Around £485,000 is to be ploughed into dredging work at both Pittenweem and Anstruther over the next two years. A further £80,000 has been set aside in Fife’s capital plan for a new ice plant at Pittenweem to replace the current facility which has been beset by constant breakdowns. Tom Mackenzie, from the Fife Fisherman’s… Read More
St. Johns County needs almost 16,000 truckloads of sand to rebuild its beaches after Hurricane Matthew. Crews will dredge that sand from the Intracoastal Waterway and St. Augustine Inlet. Starting next month, the county, the Florida Inland Navigational District and the Army Corps of Engineers will begin dredging. “It will provide a lot of protection… Read More
Officials discussed a study about how to preserve the ecosystem in the Arkansas River in Sand Springs and beyond and sought public input during a meeting this week. The study area includes the 42-mile long Arkansas River corridor ecosystem downstream of the Keystone Dam to the Tulsa/Wagoner County boundary. The Arkansas River Feasibility Report says… Read More
Santa Clara Valley Water District officials announced Tuesday they will request federal assistance to help reduce and prevent future flooding of the Coyote Creek area. The announcement comes after storms and heavy rainfall last week caused flooding in areas around the creek. Mandatory evacuations forced many residents to leave their homes and enter shelters. “We… Read More
A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start the $63 million Absecon Island shore protection project in mid-April at either end of the island, with a goal of concluding the work in Ventnor by mid-October. Representatives from the Army Corps along with those from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, contractor… Read More
It has been nearly 16 months since the cutter suction dredger was brought here with much fanfare for removing silt from the basin of the Azhikkal port here. The dredging work, however, remains a non-starter, despite assurances by Ports Department officials that the work will be started without further delay. The dredger was brought here… Read More