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A bill on its way to the president’s desk authorizes most of the money needed to build a new boat harbor in Craig. But the funding itself will wait for future congressional action. The legislation includes about $29 million for the harbor in Prince of Wales Island’s largest city. Craig City Administrator Jon Bolling said… Read More
The water legislation President Barack Obama is slated to sign in the days ahead is expected to send more federal money to the Savannah port expansion project. Both chambers of Congress passed the measure last week in one of the last official acts on Capitol Hill in 2016. The bill increases what the federal government… Read More
A bill transferring control of infrastructure on the Barren and Green rivers to local communities has passed the U.S. Senate. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement the legislation will give more control to Kentucky communities and help with flood protection in Paducah. The bill will transfer control of inoperable locks and dams along… Read More
A plan to clean up a Superior bay is nearing completion, and work could get underway next year. The project to clean up Howard’s Pocket, also known as Howard’s Bay, is a collaboration among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the city of Superior and Fraser… Read More
The EU has awarded grants to the Port of Gdansk in Poland totalling more than €140 million for three major projects at the port. Two of these projects are to improve road and rail transport links but the third will be a major upgrading of the Inner Port including deepening of the fairway and quay… Read More
Napa County must provide more information to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before learning if the federal agency will help build flood control features to protect about 2,000 city of Napa properties. The Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District has been trying to convince the federal agency for three years that the… Read More
U.S. Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-02), a senior member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, announced Dec. 8, 2016 that Congress is set to approve several provisions he secured to benefit South Jersey. Included within the “Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act” is a $55 million authorization for the construction of the… Read More
The province has turned down Wasaga Beach’s request to dredge the mouth of the Nottawasaga River sooner than later, with officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry telling the town it’s not an emergency situation. Wasaga Beach recently applied for a permit to dredge the mouth, which has been narrowed in recent weeks… Read More
An engineering consultant is proposing an alternative disposal site that would allow Ocean City to continue with its multimillion-dollar dredging program in 2017, but already there is resistance from surrounding homeowners. Under the plan, muddy sediment that is dredged from the shallow lagoons would be piped to the proposed site on Shelter Road off Tennessee… Read More
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have approved a flood prevention plan to dredge a major canal that will cost the southern hub VND1.85 trillion ($81 million). The work along a 7.5km stretch of the Ba Lon Canal between Binh Chanh District and District 8 is expected to help control flooding in the south of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Management Branch is responsible for all ports and federal waterways in the Florida Panhandle. Survey crews go out a few times a year to test the water depths of channels to make sure they aren’t too shallow. If an area becomes too shallow, they dredge the sand out…. Read More
The Shannon will have to be dredged to curb future flooding, State agencies have agreed – despite repeated declarations that dredging was barred by European Union directives. The Shannon Flood Risk Group, which is led by the Office for Public Work, has accepted that “strategic maintenance works” must be carried out on Ireland’s longest river…. Read More
All navigation locks on the lower Columbia and Snake rivers will be out of service for 14 weeks beginning Monday, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts extensive maintenance. The closure was announced in May 2015, and will affect 359 miles of river from Portland to Lewiston, Idaho. “Aging infrastructure sometimes requires extensive, non-routine… Read More
For the first time in the history of the cruise port in Crown Bay, the Celebrity Silhouette has berthed along the northern side of the pier at the Austin “Babe” Monsanto Marine Terminal, the Virgin Islands Port Authority announced. “This was never possible in the past because Solstice-class vessels could not safely berth along the… Read More
Dredging work is already underway in St. John’s Harbour to allow larger vessels to dock next to the Canadian Coast Guard Atlantic headquarters. 5,400 cubic metres – or 450 truckloads – of material will be removed from the south side of the harbour over the next three months. The material will be transported to Newfoundland… Read More