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After nearly two years of meetings with experts in the fishing industry, environmental scientists and engineers, elected officials and business owners along the four coastal counties, and two public dredging forums and a collection of White Papers prepared by the Dredging Working Group, their efforts took a step forward Jan. 30, when Senate Bill No…. Read More
Work on the $1.5 million Green Lake dredging project could be getting under way as early as next week. A surveying crew took to the “Duck Pond” in a small boat on Tuesday (Feb. 14), but only as far into the eastern forebay — off Attleboro Road — as they could without running aground in… Read More
A dredging project on the southside of St. John’s harbour has been temporarily suspended after some bones were brought up from the bottom of the harbour this week. The bones, including what was described as a leg bone, are now with the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office for identification. The RNC is awaiting the results to… Read More
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has issued a ruling in a long-running dispute between environmentalists and Los Angeles County over a plan to dig out decades of accumulated sediment behind a critical flood control dam. Judge James Chalfant ruled Tuesday afternoon that county officials could excavate 2.4 million cubic yards of dirt in the… Read More
HCM City will undertake 14 projects to prevent erosion, including dredging of vulnerable waterways, at a cost of over VND1.7 trillion (US$75 million) this year, according to its Inland Waterway Management Division. They include a four-kilometre embankment in segment 3 of the Binh Quoi-Cay Bang-Chua Channel in the Thanh Da Peninsula at a cost of… Read More
With the onset of the rainy season in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the provincial office of the Department of Environment has launched measures to dredge and unblock Hamoun Wetlands’ tributaries. Many water streams flowing into the Hamouns are obstructed by sediments remaining from past floods, IRNA reported. The Hamouns are trans-boundary wetlands on Iran-Afghanistan border and constitute… Read More
Two of the South Island’s largest organisations are at odds over a planned dredging operation in Lyttelton Harbour. Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has applied to expand its shipping channel, allowing larger ships to enter the port. The channel expansion would cost up to $120 million and was part of the port’s $1 billion redevelopment…. Read More
Dredging needs had nothing to do with the Ben-my-Chree crash, if it was unsafe, the master wouldn’t have chosen to dock. That’s the insistence of director of Ports Ann Reynolds – answers will come once the investigatory report by expert divers is released. That’ll determine if damage to both the Ben and the King Edward… Read More
In 2017, maintenance dredging operations are planned in the Big port Saint-Petersburg at a volume of 152,000 cubic meters and in the Ust-Luga port at 80,000 cubic meters, the Russian sea port agency reports. The projects envisage maintenance dredging to ensure safe navigation and maintain nameplate dimensions of the water areas, approach channels and fairways… Read More
A geothermal expert has refuted claims by an Ohinemutu resident that the lack of dredging in the Ruapeka lagoon could be connected to heightened geothermal activity in the area. Lani Kereopa witnessed another eruption in Lake Rotorua on Sunday morning describing it as a lot wider than the previous three eruptions and that it looked… Read More
Minister for Public Works and Parliamentary Affairs, Abdul Rehman Veeri, Sunday conducted an extensive tour of summer capital Srinagar and took stock of progress made on various ongoing key developmental projects. Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr Farooq Ahmad Lone, Chief Engineer R&B, Executive Engineers of ERA and R&B, besides officers from Police and other concerned Departments… Read More
The Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) on Friday formally announced the conclusion of the dredging of the port access channel, deepening it from 11 to 14.2 metres. This difference “may not seem much, but it’s those additional three metres which allow us today to state proudly that we are a port which can receive Capesize… Read More
The first phase of salt marsh restoration at the John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge in Narragansett started Nov. 21 and was completed in late January. The project is being undertaken by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy in conjunction with groups like the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council. “Rhode… Read More
Silt from the bottom of South Slough is being piled up along the canal’s banks. Contractors from Chem South Spray of Gonzales have been working since mid-January on a major Tangipahoa Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 1 project that aims to deepen the canal to roughly five feet. The $1.19 million project also involves removing… Read More
New, nutrient removal process proves successful on Turkey Creek Muck Removal Project, Palm Bay, Florida on the Indian River Lagoon which suffers from high levels of harmful nutrients. Gator Dredging has completed the muck removal from Turkey Creek, located in Palm Bay, FL under budget and ahead of schedule. Part of the larger Indian River… Read More