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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved fresh estimates for the planned project to deepen and widen Mumbai Harbour Channel and JN Port Channel. It has been confirmed that the entire project cost, of Rs 2029 crore (US$ 31.28 million) will be funded through the internal… Read More
Twelve bodies have been recovered during dredging of Bhakra Nangal canal in Narwana area of Jind district in Haryana. A section of the Bhakra Nangal canal that runs through Narwana was closed for dredging. While cleaning the river bed, bodies were recovered, one after the other, sending shockwaves across the state. Police suspect that more… Read More
Dredging in Grays Harbor has been pushed back a week and a half. Originally scheduled to start this weekend, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that they will begin annual Grays Harbor maintenance dredging on April 10. Now working around-the-clock through April 26, the vessel Yaquina will dredge the Grays Harbor Entrance, Point Chehalis… Read More
Crews planned to start as early as April 1 on a long-awaited dune replenishment and beach widening project that will come first to Ortley Beach, and eventually progress through 2018 to nearly the entire oceanfront of the northern barrier island. Toms River officials expressed excitement that the project was underway after a long process of… Read More
A beach replenishment project to help bolster the severely eroded Southold Town beach is close to wrapping up. Southold Town Director of Public Works Jeff Standish spoke to the town board at Tuesday’s work session and said he was thankful that beach re-nourishment efforts had begun prior to recent storm Stella. “If we did not… Read More
The massive PCB clean-up in the Fox River is now entering the home stretch, with dredging operations underway for a ninth consecutive year. An early ice-out this spring allowed for a two-week jump start on the largest river clean-up of its kind in U.S. history. Since 2009, crews have dredged more than 4 million cubic… Read More
A $1.3 million dredging project that was to have begun in April at the marina at Utah Lake State Park is being delayed, probably until after Labor Day. Park manager Jason Allen tells the Standard-Examiner the postponement comes with water levels rising and spawning season about to start for the lake’s endangered June suckers. There… Read More
Beachgoers arriving at the Galveston seawall this weekend will find a far more spacious beach to relax on following the pumping of more than 1 million cubic yards of sand along 3.5 miles of badly eroded beach. The $19.5 million effort to pump sand taken from a sand bar in the Houston Ship Channel ended… Read More
A $1.3 million dredging project planned for Utah Lake State Park Marina in April is being delayed, probably until after Labor Day. The postponement is due to a number of factors, including too few bidders in the original request, rising water levels and concern not to interrupt the spawning season for the lake’s endangered June… Read More
The Isle of Wight Council is to undertake two studies to understand the future coastal erosion and coastal flood defence needs of Sandown Bay and Ventnor. Coastal erosion and tidal flooding The first phase of the studies is comprising information-gathering in relation to the physical and natural environments, including coastal processes, economic data and an… Read More
Dredging to remove shoaling in the shipping channel in Beaufort Inlet began Friday, with the spoils going to re-nourish the beach west of Fort Macon State Park in Atlantic Beach. Dredging company Great Lakes Dredge and Dock is using the Illinois, a cutter-head and suction-pipeline dredge, for the project, which is part of a rotating… Read More
The Port of Dover says millions of pounds of investment and hundreds of jobs will be at risk if it can’t dredge the material it wants from the Goodwin Sands. The work will help expand the Western Docks and the port says getting sand from further away will massively increase the carbon footprint of the… Read More
Dredging of the Shallotte Inlet crossing on the Intracoastal Waterway in Ocean Isle Beach wrapped up Friday, an operation that took less than the scheduled two weeks, according to Southwind Construction Corp. night superintendent Jim Barton. The dredged sand was pumped onto the east end of Ocean Isle Beach, with about 36,000 cubic yards added… Read More
The New Zealand Refinery Company has long-held plans to dredge the Whangarei Harbour to allow fully laden oil tankers to enter. This week, it began public consultation taking the information to the people. An application is pending to dredge the main channel and ancient pathway of the sperm whale into Whangarei Harbour. Te Parawhau elder… Read More
The Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir project came one step closer to clearing its last hurdle for development this week when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a revised environmental impact study. This revision comes nearly two years after the initial study was released for public comment. “If this is approved, it will probably… Read More