Dredging at Murrells Inlet began this week, nearly a month behind schedule. Bubba Young, senior project manager for Gator Dredging of Clearwater, Fla., plans to use both a mechanical press and geo-textile tubes to dry the spoils from the inlet and spend Sundays on maintenance and disposal rather than running seven days a week as… Read More
As the clock runs down on a federal effort to create a deeper, safer Napa River for boating, authorities are seeking an extra 15 days to complete the project. A state-imposed deadline requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to wind up its excavation on a 17-mile river stretch from downtown Napa to Vallejo by… Read More
Work to clean up the Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) River shipping channel resumed this month after the Army Corps of Engineers failed to dredge the six-mile passage last year. Cleveland.com reports the $3.7 million project began Nov. 14 at the six-mile mark of the channel near the ArcelorMittal steel mill docks in Cleveland. There, a buildup of… Read More
A Chinese vessel has been anchored off the coastline of Barangay Bakhaw Norte in Kalibo, Aklan since November 22. According to the Philippine Coast Guard in Aklan, the vessel, identified as MV Zhong Hai 18, will be dredging the Aklan River. Engineer Roger Esto of the Provincial Planning and Development Office said the ship was… Read More
The State Department of Environmental Protection will be holding a meeting Wednesday night to discuss the progress of the Lido Beach Dredging Project. The meeting will take place from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 at the Waldemere Fire Station in Sarasota. The public is invited to attend the open meeting to participate… Read More
A dredging project will soon begin in Charlestown Breachway that will restore salt marsh habitat damaged by sea level rise in Ninigret Pond and improve navigation in the breachway channel. Salt marshes are important because they serve as an ecosystem for fish and birds and act as a natural buffer to coastal storms. With rising… Read More
The exhibition booth of MSCC Bronka (Multipurpose Sea Cargo Complex Bronka, Big Port St. Petersburg) was visited by RF Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, Aide to the President of Russia Igor Levitin and Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov, IAA PortNews correspondent reports from Transport Week-2016 in Moscow. The port representatives… Read More
Representatives from the Port of Grays Harbor gave a presentation at Monday’s Hoquiam City Council meeting detailing continued growth and profitability, and that led to some tough questions from community members and councilmembers. Port public affairs manager Kayla Dunlap spoke on the Deeper Draft celebration to be held Dec. 14 in the Port commission chamber…. Read More
The Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor’s new dredge, the Twin Lakes, will cost an estimated $1 million more than originally plan for the custom-made vessel. The new dredge, delivered to and assembled at the harbor in June, replaced the 30-year-old Seabright, which was sold for reuse for $5,000. The Twin Lakes construction and delivery originally… Read More
An environmental group’s High Court challenge to force a halt to sand dredging in Lough Neagh has failed. Friends of the Earth challenged the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affiars’ decision to issue an enforcement notice to stop sand extraction at the Lough rather ordering it to stop immediately in 2015. Planning permission has… Read More
Napier Port now plans to lodge its resource consent applications for the proposed wharf development and phased dredging project in the first half of 2017, so it can do further work to confirm the best locations for disposal of dredged material. Napier Port had planned to submit its applications to Hawke’s Bay Regional Council before… Read More
China will invest aid money and technical assistance in a flood control and river management project to help end perennial flooding in some parts of this city and in two towns of Maguindanao along the downstream Mindanao River. Engineer Wang Chong of the China National Electric Engineering Company (CNEEC) said major river management project and… Read More
Cleanup of the Fox River concluded for the season this week with the news the dredging and capping operation will extend one more year than originally thought. This was to have been the second-to-last season for PCB cleanup that began in 2009, but Tetra Tech, the prime contractor for cleanup, determined the operation will need… Read More
THE proposed dredging of the shallow access channel at Kuala Baram river mouth should be able to restore Miri Port of its status as a premier deep-sea port. Piasau assemblyman Datuk Sebastian Ting said the proposed move would also turn Kuala Baram Industrial Estate into a vibrant and successful industrial area. “Big vessels sail to Bintulu with… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers unsealed bids for the planned Manasquan Inlet to Barnegat Inlet beach replenishment project on time last Friday. Steven Rochette, spokesman for the Corps’ Philadelphia district, told Shorebeat on Monday that three companies – Weeks Marine, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, and Manson Construction – submitted bids for the… Read More