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The province has turned down Wasaga Beach’s request to dredge the mouth of the Nottawasaga River sooner than later, with officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry telling the town it’s not an emergency situation. Wasaga Beach recently applied for a permit to dredge the mouth, which has been narrowed in recent weeks… Read More
An engineering consultant is proposing an alternative disposal site that would allow Ocean City to continue with its multimillion-dollar dredging program in 2017, but already there is resistance from surrounding homeowners. Under the plan, muddy sediment that is dredged from the shallow lagoons would be piped to the proposed site on Shelter Road off Tennessee… Read More
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have approved a flood prevention plan to dredge a major canal that will cost the southern hub VND1.85 trillion ($81 million). The work along a 7.5km stretch of the Ba Lon Canal between Binh Chanh District and District 8 is expected to help control flooding in the south of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Management Branch is responsible for all ports and federal waterways in the Florida Panhandle. Survey crews go out a few times a year to test the water depths of channels to make sure they aren’t too shallow. If an area becomes too shallow, they dredge the sand out…. Read More
The Shannon will have to be dredged to curb future flooding, State agencies have agreed – despite repeated declarations that dredging was barred by European Union directives. The Shannon Flood Risk Group, which is led by the Office for Public Work, has accepted that “strategic maintenance works” must be carried out on Ireland’s longest river…. Read More
All navigation locks on the lower Columbia and Snake rivers will be out of service for 14 weeks beginning Monday, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts extensive maintenance. The closure was announced in May 2015, and will affect 359 miles of river from Portland to Lewiston, Idaho. “Aging infrastructure sometimes requires extensive, non-routine… Read More
For the first time in the history of the cruise port in Crown Bay, the Celebrity Silhouette has berthed along the northern side of the pier at the Austin “Babe” Monsanto Marine Terminal, the Virgin Islands Port Authority announced. “This was never possible in the past because Solstice-class vessels could not safely berth along the… Read More
Dredging work is already underway in St. John’s Harbour to allow larger vessels to dock next to the Canadian Coast Guard Atlantic headquarters. 5,400 cubic metres – or 450 truckloads – of material will be removed from the south side of the harbour over the next three months. The material will be transported to Newfoundland… Read More
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