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Over half a year since work officially began, the first phase of Singapore’s mega-port terminal in Tuas is 20 per cent completed – and this phase will be finished on schedule by December 2020, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said in an update on Friday (Dec 9). The project is managed by… Read More
Next week Lake Shamrock residents and property owners may be getting an overview of the engineering study and the estimated costs to dredge the lake and remove years of accumulated sediment. City Manager Ken Hibl will soon be mailing the documents out. The $40,000 engineering study by Progressive Engineering of Grand Rapids, was authorized by… Read More
The operationalisation of the old port here will gather pace next week with the commencement of work to excavate three lakh cubic metres of sand from the Ariankuppam River mouth. A hi-tech dredger of the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI), a public sector undertaking, has reached the fishing harbour at Uppalam on December 4 and… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting public meetings in Cochrane, Wis., and Wabasha Dec. 14 and 15 to discuss its planning efforts to manage Mississippi River dredged material between the Chippewa River and Lock and Dam 5, located near Minnesota City. The meetings will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec…. Read More
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) recently finished the 2016 dredging season, having removed more than 1 million cubic yards of dredge material from state park lakes and other state properties. The 1 million cubic yards of sediment is the most that has ever been removed in the history of the state’s dredging program…. Read More
Dozens of Eastern Shore of Virginia residents came to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s Eastern Shore Laboratory in Wachapreague Tuesday to ask questions and make comments about a proposal to make beneficial use of dredging spoils offshore of the town. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers held the open house-style event to give… Read More
The Samoan Beach Fales continue to be a national icon attracting both overseas and local tourists to modest accommodation of thatched roof huts overlooking the seashore and turquoise waters only meters away. Owned and operated by individual extended families these tourism businesses are a good source of revenue bringing prosperity to the rural areas and… Read More
STONE HARBOR – In a short meeting of the Stone Harbor Borough Council, Dec. 6, three ordinances were adopted. Two of the ordinances set higher rates for water and sewer services throughout the borough. Council President Karen Lane explained that the cost of removing the pipes from a beach, along with the aging infrastructure that… Read More
Town officials are in the process of attaining a long-term solution to erosion issues along the east end of the island. Town Manager Daisy Ivey said the town has been battling erosion for years, using various sandbagging and beach-fill projects to bring sand back to the beach and keep the ocean at bay. Sand from… Read More
A busy year of projects on the westernmost Great Lakes saw $60 million poured into 254 construction and dredging contracts, the Detroit District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported in a news release early this month. “These projects help the Corps further its mission of providing great engineering services and sustainable solutions to… Read More
The state of New Jersey has won an appeal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency that will provide more time and federal funds to complete the dredging of channels clogged with sand and silt by Superstorm Sandy. The ruling is expected to improve the safety of New Jersey’s navigable coastal waterways for recreational and commercial… Read More
The ministry of shipping, which has introduced a slew of projects along the National Waterway-1 (NW1), will shortly be awarding a contract for dredging works from Farakka Barrage in West Bengal to Kahalgaon in Bihar. Dredging refers to the activity of excavating bottom sediments to make waterways navigable. The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI)… Read More
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone recently announced approval for plans to appropriate $2.1 million in funding for the dredging of various county waterways to improve navigability for boaters and to improve waterways. “It is critical that we continue to properly maintain our waterways so that everyone can use them safely,” said Suffolk County Executive Steve… Read More
Plans are in place for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to remove 400,000 cubic yards of clean sediment from Marina del Rey Harbor starting early this month. The dredge vessel Heidi Renee is scheduled to arrive in the harbor on Dec. 5. The dredging project is scheduled from Dec. 2016 to May 2017…. Read More
Federal environmental regulators are slowing down plans to dig a deep-water channel between Pasco County-owned SunWest Park and the Gulf of Mexico. The county’s May 18 application for an Army Corps of Engineers permit to dredge a 60-foot wide channel through Fillman’s Bayou too closely resembles a previously rejected proposal, the corps indicated in a… Read More