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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers earlier this month announced it will begin routine depth maintenance in the Grand River in Fairport Harbor later this year. It’s an ongoing operation, officials report, necessary to maintain the depths required for large commercial vessels to enter and maneuver about the port. In a public notice posted on… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hopes to start dredging the Charleston Harbor by December, according to a project manager. State and federal lawmakers gathered Monday morning for a progress report on the Charleston Harbor Deepening project. The deepening project could rely heavily on what actions are taken by the Trump administration. The project still… Read More
The long-awaited expansion of Port Everglades appears likely to be delayed, this time for a new study of the project’s likely damage to coral. The new study comes as a result of a lawsuit by environmental groups against the Army Corps of Engineers, which the groups said understated the environmental impact of dredging the port…. Read More
Armed with new data from the August flood, Ascension Parish officials are going to revisit an old idea to dredge Bayou Manchac with the goal of improving drainage in the Spanish Lake and Bluff Swamp areas where water pooled for weeks last summer. Even after water retreated from the rest of the region, allowing people… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers encourages the public to provide input as part of an updated analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the Port Everglades navigation improvement project. An open comment period started in late September and will end March 24, 2017. The Corps’ Jacksonville District and Port Everglades will host… Read More
Workers have dredged and hauled away about 2,000 truckloads of contaminated sediment in the first phase of a long-awaited $50 million cleanup of a portion of Pompton Lake. Equipment at the site is now being removed for the winter, and activity won’t resume until March or April, when the far larger second phase of the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District and the Calhoun Port Authority will host a public scoping meeting on a project to widen and deepen the Matagorda Ship Channel in Calhoun and Matagorda counties. The meeting will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Jan 24 at the Bauer Civic Center, 2300 SH… Read More
Sarasota city officials and Lido Key leaders waded into the deep end of the controversial plan to dredge Big Pass on Saturday morning and issued harsh words against their Siesta Key neighbors. “I have some good news, some bad news and some challenging news,” City Manager Tom Barwin told almost 200 attendees at the annual… Read More
Water routes from Chittagong and Mongla seaports to Rooppur nuclear power plant site on the bank of the River Padma near Pakshi, Pabna, are likely to be dredged to help the heavy cargo movement. Many places of these two important water routes lose navigability to below four metres during the lean period, which will disrupt… Read More
The Borough of Stone Harbor is pleased to announce that a contract has been awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, which will use the dredge “Texas” to perform this nourishment. On Tues. Jan. 10, 2017 a pre-construction conference was held to summarize the project, introduce personnel… Read More
The first phase of the dredging works will commence from the river mouth and extend to 0.55kilometers upstream with a total volume of 300,000 cubic meters excavated. This is expected to be completed by May, 2017. Ministry of Agriculture, Permanent Secretary, Jitendra Singh said that the dredging works will have no significant negative environmental impact… Read More
Ocean City won’t pursue a proposed program to transfer dredged material to the Shelter Road Recycling Center, Mayor Jay Gillian announced Friday afternoon after meeting with representatives of the Ocean Reef Condominium Association. “Throughout my administration, I have always sought public feedback in the very early stages of any major project or new initiative,” Gillian… Read More
Dredging of Searsport Harbor is included in a list of projects expected to take place in the next three years, along with safety and infrastructure improvements at Belfast Municipal Airport, bridge repair in Palermo and paving in more than a dozen Waldo County towns, according to a press release from Maine Senate President Michael Thibodeau,… Read More
Federal legislators from the Erie region have already been appealing for funding for 2017 sand work at Presque Isle State Park. “We are writing to request that sand replenishment for Presque Isle State Park is once again made a high-priority project in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) FY2017 budget,” wrote U.S. Sens. Bob… Read More
Crews have begun transferring up to 1 million cubic yards of sand in dredging to fortify a stretch of Southeast Texas beach and reduce erosion. A spokeswoman for the Galveston Park Board of Trustees says the nearly $20 million expansion will widen the beach by about 150 feet. Mary Beth Bassett, in a statement Wednesday,… Read More