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Government has accorded sanction to Irrigation and Flood Control Department to procure two dredgers after outsourcing of dredging project proved wastage of money and time. Sources said that the development came after government expressed resentment over the slow process of dredging in River Jhelum and other water bodies and termed the outsourcing of the project… Read More
The Port of Skagit has received permission to change the way it dredges the La Conner Marina. The state Department of Ecology approved the port’s request to use hydraulic dredging and dispose of the sediment at a site in Rosario Strait, off the shores of Anacortes. Ecology’s permission was needed to ensure the work complies… Read More
A permit request from Ocean City to state and federal regulators would allow the city and its private boat slip owners to dredge along the island’s entire bayfront. Officials also want to make the access road from Roosevelt Boulevard to the large disposal site nearby a permanent haul road for removing dredge spoils from the… Read More
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is set to launch the dredging of the 152 km Ajaokuta-Onitsha waterways on April 28, in Kogi. Amaechi told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, that the dredging was an initiative of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA). The minister commended the Managing Director of NIWA for the initiative, adding… Read More
An advisory group wants to bury contaminated soil dredged from the Portland Harbor waterfront under the muddy shallows near the Coast Guard Station in South Portland. The group of municipal and harbor officials and a team of grant-funded consultants chose the South Portland site as the preferred location of Maine’s first confined aquatic disposal –… Read More
TSHD Severnaya Dvina started dredging at the main navigation canal of Arkhangelsk seaport on 23 April 2017, say press center of FSUE Rosmorport. 1.7 mln cbm of material is to be dredged there to maintain design depth in 2017. All the works will be performed by the company’s own dredging fleet. The dredger built at… Read More
There wasn’t a lot of good news for the Portage Canal restoration effort this week. Funding to restore and enhance portions of the historic man-made waterway are out of sight, and progress on adjacent pedestrian enhancements are caught up in bureaucratic wrangling. The city does have more than $1 million in earmarks for the project,… Read More
Following suit with Mayor Jon Mitchell and state Reps. Bill Straus, D-Mattapoisett, and Robert Koczera, D-New Bedford, selectmen will also send a letter of recommendation in favor of Phase V dredging in the New Bedford Harbor to the Baker-Polito administration. In March, the New Bedford Harbor Development Commission presented an economic impact study from Martin… Read More
The Buxton Beach nourishment project is slated to being in the next few weeks with a tentative start date of May 21. Visitors and residents may start to see equipment arrive in the next couple of weeks, as the contractor deposits staging materials at the old decommissioned Coast Guard Station parking area in Buxton. The… Read More
Construction will soon begin on a second $8.6 million underwater sewer line across the Fraser River after council approved a resolution to update the project budget with provincial and federal funding. Up to 83 per cent, or $6,898,023, of the total costs could be covered by the provincial and federal governments under the Clean Water… Read More
Dredging work is underway for the year in two parts of Lake Decatur, with more than half of the $91 million project now complete. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, the city’s contractor on the project, started work March 31 in Basin 2 and the Sand Creek area, said Keith Alexander, the city’s director of water… Read More
Minnesota has asked a federal judge to block construction of a $2.1 billion flood control project in the Fargo-Moorhead area until it issues permits for the project. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday in Horace, North Dakota, at the site of a planned inlet structure that’s considered the first phase of the cross-border project. Full-scale… Read More
The Merrimack River Beach Alliance is continuing discussion about plans to dredge sand from the Merrimack and Piscataqua Rivers that would be used on area beaches to protect houses threatened by beach erosion. The MRBA met with Department of Conservation and Army Corps Engineers representatives Friday morning to discuss plans for the project, which aims… Read More
The Greenwich Harbor Commission has submitted an application to the Connecticut Port Authority for an $8,000 grant to provide seed money for dredging Greenwich Harbor. Commission members said they are hoping to find other sources of funding to cover what would be an expensive project to remove silt from the downtown waterway. “Priority is now… Read More
The ferry routes between Ocracoke, Swan Quarter and Cedar Island will be altered starting Saturday due to shoaling in the federally-controlled channel at Bigfoot Slough. Water levels will be very low, especially at low tide, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation. The limited schedules will remain in effect until the dredging operation is complete…. Read More