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Fort Steilacoom Park’s Lake Waughop could require removal of more than three feet of nutrient-rich sludge from its bottom to kill toxic blue-green algae blooms that have plagued it for years, a consultant told the Lakewood City Council this week. The environmental engineering firm Brown and Caldwell said dredging the lake at a cost of… Read More
Three weeks ahead of schedule, the Santa Barbara dredging is underway to open up a section of the harbor clogged by sand. The narrow passage was too dangerous for some boat owners. This week the Harbor Patrol has been escorting some vessels in and out so they did not get stuck on the sand bar… Read More
Up to 231,500 cubic metres of sediment will be dredged from the bottom of Snug Cove to make way for the new breakwater wharf to accommodate cruise ships. That amount of material would be enough to fill around 92 Olympic-size swimming pools. The dredged material will be dumped in a previously used location approximately six… Read More
DREDGING works at Rhyl Harbour will start on Monday. Works are expected to take three weeks. For public safety reasons, a number of parking spaces, sections of the boardwalk and quay walls along the dock will be closed off. Maintenance dredging of the harbour is required on a regular basis to ensure the required navigable… Read More
Southold Town will seek permission for an emergency beach replenishment at Town Beach, where winter storms have caused significant erosion. “There was quite a bit of devastation. The beach is about five feet from the parking lot,” public works director Jeff Standish told town board members at their work session this morning. Standish said Cross… Read More
MRTS is interested in dredging of the main navigable pass at the seaport of Arkhangelsk to deepen it from 7.5 m to 9.2 m, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Nikita Ananyin, Deputy Director General on Development, MRTS Terminal LLC, says. According to preliminary estimations of MRTS expenses under this project will make about RUB 200 mln… Read More
The threat of a levee breach in Lathrop appears to be subsiding as the level of the San Joaquin River continues to decline. But that doesn’t mean the fight for long-term protection and the overhauls necessary to prevent the same threat from repeating the next time an abnormally large amount of snow pounds the Sierra… Read More
Hagerstown officials began work Tuesday night on a proposed bond issue generating up to $7.3 million to be used for a variety of projects, including the dredging of City Park lake and a new $1.25 million fire truck. The five-member Hagerstown City Council voted unanimously during a regular meeting to introduce an ordinance authorizing the… Read More
STARTING from Monday, Ijaw people of Tsekelewu and Polobobou communities, Egbema kingdom, Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State, have given the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) 21-day ultimatum to commence all abandoned projects in their communities. Failure to do so, the people vowed, would lead to civil unrest and disruption of operation of oil… Read More
Jacksonville port executives continue preparations to deepen the St. Johns River, including arranging the purchase of conservation land needed for the project. They also continue to push for local, state and federal funding for the almost $700 million project. The Jacksonville Port Authority board voted unanimously Monday to approve the purchase of two parcels of… Read More
Since the new year, Holden Beach has been working to get their coastline into tip top shape before the upcoming tourism season. This $15 million project called the Central Reach Project is designed to take sand from the ocean floor and pump it onto shore. Town Manager David Hewett said dredging will add storm damage… Read More
The Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol is assisting boaters who are coming into and out of the main channel because of a recent surge of sand at the entrance. Winter storms have clogged the normal opening. Buoys mark the deepest sections, and at low tide some boat owners are not able to move through, so they… Read More
With effect from 27 February 2017 and for a period of approximately 6 months, dredging operations will be carried out within the area bounded by straight lines joining the following co-ordinates (WGS 84 Datum) from (A) to (E) and the adjacent shoreline: (A) 22° 20.325’N / 114° 06.902’E (B) 22° 20.333’N / 114° 06.930’E (C)… Read More
Large chunks of the dunes along some of Ocean City’s north end beaches have been sliced away, as though someone took a gigantic cleaver and cut them in half. What’s left are cliff-like walls of sand that tower 7 or 8 feet above the beach in spots between Third and Fifth streets. Although Ocean City… Read More
People from the American Samoa village of Aua have made it known to the US Army Corps of Engineers that they want their lands cleaned of leftover fuel from when the Navy had fuel tanks there. The Commander of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant Colonel James Hoyman and a team of seven, have… Read More