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The city says it has federal permission to do emergency dredging in Sydenham Creek in an effort to prevent further serious flooding in Dundas. But the work can’t start until after the next few stormy days. Hamilton was pounded by a month’s worth of rain April 20, spurring city-wide complaints about street flooding and even… Read More
Ron Cole owns a boat in the Eureka marina called Loco Boco. He pays $400 a month to have his boat docked at the marina and when it hits low tide in Humboldt Bay, he can’t move his boat because it’s trapped in mud. Like other fisherman and boat owners, he is worried the plans… Read More
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the New Jersey Water Supply Authority is proposing to dredge the Delaware and Raritan Canal, from Kingston to Amwell Road, Franklin Township, Somerset County (the “Project”). The Project will remove an estimated 248,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Canal to increase flow capacity. The estimated cost of the project… Read More
Time for a Plan B. Back in March, Eureka Parks and Recreation Director Miles Slattery outlined a plan for where to put the sediment that has accumulated along the bay floor at the Woodley Island Marina and Eureka’s public marina. Both the City of Eureka and the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District had… Read More
Let’s journey to the underbelly of the waterfront, as it were, far from container and cruise ships, aircraft carriers and destroyers, tugs and barges, to vessels that are all about getting to the bottom of things: dredges. They’re as much a part of the daily life of a bustling port as, say, vacuum cleaners and… Read More
The Fox Waterway Agency may soon receive the financial assistance needed to manage the Fox River and Chain O’Lakes’ dredging issues under legislation sponsored by State Senator Pamela Althoff (R-McHenry). Charged with maintaining and removing sediment from the Fox River and Chain O’Lakes, Sen. Althoff said one of the Fox Waterway Agency’s biggest challenges is… Read More
Dredging company Jan De Nul Group acquired a contract for deepening the Port of Veracruz. The contract value is around 60 million euros (U.S. $65.5 million), Jan De Nul Group said. Under the contract, the access channel and the turning basin will be dredged, and in total, 13 million cubic meters will be removed and… Read More
A specialist contractor is going to dredge the outer harbour in Peel. Work will start soon to remove sand deposits from the area around the breakwater, the lifeboat slipway and the groyne. The sand, which has been deposited as a result of tidal and weather conditions, will be excavated and disposed of at sea at… Read More
Sarnia has hired an engineering firm to review a proposal that would see the mouth of the Cull Drain dredged, its concrete bridge abutments removed and a stone breakwall built one-quarter of a kilometre out into Lake Huron. A group of local landowners petitioned the city last fall to have the waterway designated under the… Read More
The Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ONICCIMA) on Wednesday commended the Federal Government for the maintenance dredging of River Niger from Ajaokuta to Onitsha. Mr Dominic Ajibo, the Director-General of ONICCIMA, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha that the dredging would make Onitsha River Port a final destination from… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ sidecaster dredge Merritt arrived in Hatteras Inlet and began the long awaited dredging of the Connecting Channel for several days before it was redirected to address an emergency situation near Ocracoke Inlet. The Merritt arrived at Hatteras Inlet in late April, and was able to dredge from Saturday April… Read More
The semiannual Assateague Bypass dredging of the Ocean City Inlet continues this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday. The dredge Murden arrived in Ocean City on April 28 from its home port in North Carolina and commenced operations on April 29, said Chris Gardner, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of… Read More
WORK has commenced to remove the remaining bags of sediment dredged from the Ballina Boat Harbour. Parliamentary Secretary for Northern NSW, Ben Franklin said the sediment has now dried out sufficiently to allow its removal and work can soon begin to restore the site for full use. “This project supports local and regional economies by… Read More
Central Coast Council is waiting for details of the State Government’s $8 million dredging strategy before it commits to any dredging work. “My understanding is that Councils will be able to apply for funding but I haven’t seen the exact details as yet, but of course if that is the case we would be keen… Read More
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is set to officially continue the Tinian Harbor Modification Study, through a grant from the Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment. The Tinian Harbor will undergo a series of environmental, economic, and structural analyses by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to determine the best possible options… Read More