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The authorities of Klaipeda Seaport approved its plan for maximum expansion to improve competitiveness. The plans for the Lithuanian port include extensive dredging, construction and reconstruction of quays, repair of railway tracks among other works. According to the plans the southern part of Klaipeda Seaport will be expanded by dredging the embankments in the territory… Read More
On Thursday, a crew started dredging the Edgartown Great Pond. Paul Bagnall, marine biologist and shellfish constable for the town of Edgartown, told The Times that plans are to open the Edgartown Great Pond to the ocean around March 15, weather permitting. The dredging is paid for by the Edgartown Ponds Foundation, with work being… Read More
Phase 1 of the Grand Canal Dredging project in Balboa Island, which began Dec. 5, 2016, was completed to the satisfaction of the Newport Beach Public Works Department. Dredging is necessary for this channel in Newport Beach as it is difficult for boaters to navigate in low tides. Newport Beach City Council awarded Associated Pacific… Read More
THE mouth of the Boyne River will be dredged to make a safer passage for the region’s boat owners. Money has also been allocated to seal the carpark at the NRG power station boat ramp. The State Government has given Gladstone Ports Corporation $1.5 million to complete the two projects. Member for Gladstone Glenn Butcher… Read More
Ground has broken on one of the most controversial projects in Haines in recent years. The small boat harbor expansion is entering its first phase of development. Over the next year, contractors will deepen the harbor basin, build a steel wave barrier, replace moorage pilings and add on to the uplands area. “There’s gonna need… Read More
Suspected kidnappers have abducted two sand dredgers at Eleko Village in Ibeju Lekki Local Council of Lagos State on Tuesday. It was gathered that the gunmen who came through the Lagoon around 9:00a.m. were shooting sporadically before they took the two dredgers away in their speedboat. Those abducted were the dredging company manager and a… Read More
A proposal by Wicklow County Council to dump up to 200,000 tonnes of inert material dredged from the Dargle river onto environmentally-protected land has been rejected by An Bord Pleanála. The 5.6 hectare site between Kilcoole and Delgany was chosen by the council, even though it had previously declared that the triangular plot should be… Read More
Reporting by Helen Murphy; Editing by Peter Cooney Colombia’s government has begun termination of an $861 million contract to restore navigability of the Magdalena River that was led by Brazil’sOdebrecht, the government said on Wednesday. The decision was made after Odebrecht, which faces allegations of corruption in Colombia and other Latin American countries, failed to… Read More
Sarnia Harbour is a little deeper and the city’s airport a little hillier after dredging wrapped up late last month, says the city’s economic development director. Some 35,000 to 40,000 cubic metres of riverbed sediment was scooped after work started in the early fall, said Peter Hungerford, and trucked to the Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport… Read More
With the start of another taxpayer-funded, $128 million Army Corps of Engineers beach-building project just weeks away, one last group of New Jersey’s seaside homeowners were in court last week, essentially saying: “No thanks.” Bay Head, N.J., is a Victorian-era oceanfront enclave of stately homes, perched behind a stone revetment to protect them from storm… Read More
Rindge Dam in Malibu Canyon, built to provide a reliable source of water for the Rindge Family’s ranch and the growing community of Malibu, was completed in 1926. It took two years to construct and cost $152,928. A California Department of Parks and Recreation’s plans to remove the defunct structure is expected to take eight… Read More
Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) Chairman and Managing Director Rajesh Tripathi has promised to complete channel dredging work undertaken by it in Puducherry by May. After inspecting the progress of work, he advised the DCI officials on how to move forward. He also met the Chief Minister of Puducherry and other officials from the Port… Read More
The race is on to restore San Javier and Los Alcázares beaches by Easter All along the coastline of the Region of Murcia work is under way to repair and restore the beaches which were damaged during the heavy storms of December and January, and in the Mar Menor, where the worst of the erosion… Read More
Central Coast Council has told the NSW Cabinet that dredging the Ettalong Channel is a key issue for the region. “There is an urgent need to address the ongoing closing over and narrowing of the entrance bar at the Ettalong Channel so that it is safer and more navigable under all conditions,” the Cabinet was… Read More
A portion of Banks Channel that lies within a federally restricted zone will not be tapped as a designated sand source for shoreline re-nourishment projects in Topsail Beach. The Army Corps of Engineers has declined, for now, to consider pursuing the authorization of a “borrow” site within the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, or CBRA, zone…. Read More