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The city of Superior is lending its support — and a long-closed landfill on Wisconsin Point — to a plan to clean up Howard’s Bay despite opposition from the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The project, now years in planning, will remove contaminated dredge from Howard’s Bay, also known as Howard’s Pocket…. Read More
A dummy mine found on the seabed led to the disruption of ferry services from Portsmouth Harbour. The test mine was discovered during dredging work in the main shipping channel off Southsea on Sunday, the Royal Navy said. Brittany Ferries were stopped for two hours from about 19:00 GMT while navy divers inspected the mine…. Read More
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, is calling on the acting secretary of Army Civil Works to approve an agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) to release funds to dredge the Ogdensburg Harbor. Last dredged in 1984, Schumer says the harbor “is still in desperate need of deepening, which will ease congestion, reduce… Read More
Rosmorport says the Kronshlot, new dredging ship of its North-West Basin Branch, started dredging operations at the port of Kaliningrad in early March 2017. According to the schedule, the ship is to dredge 350,000 cbm of material this year. Maintenance dredging will be performed along the entire seaway canal of Kaliningrad from point 222 to… Read More
The state Department of Environmental Protection said it will act to get Little Egg Inlet open in time for the summer. The sand build up in the inlet has gotten to the point where the U.S. Coast Guard removed the navigational buoys Monday, effectively making the inlet an enter at your own risk affair for… Read More
The buildup of sand in Hampton/Seabrook Harbor has selectmen from both towns and state officials appealing to New Hampshire’s congressional delegation for help getting federal money to dredge. Hampton/Seabrook Harbor has a history of shoaling, where waves create sandbars. The shoals are a hazard for boaters, especially at low tide, when a vessel might become… Read More
Bald Head Island has applied for a federal permit to tap a portion of Frying Pan Shoals, an area that includes fish habitat protected under federal law, as a future sand mine source. The shoals, a line of shallow sandbars trailing from the southeastern tip of Bald Head Island some 30 miles into the Atlantic… Read More
San Mateo County Resource Conservation District staff is working feverishly to complete a grant proposal that may prove to be Pescadero’s ticket out of flooding that has killed endangered fish and cut access to the town each winter. Initially, the RCD planned to submit a grant proposal in June that would have funded only designs… Read More
Work to fill Margate’s beaches and build dunes will begin just before Memorial Day and run through Labor Day, according to a document published on Margate City’s website here. The city and some Margate homeowners went to court to try and prevent the dunes, but a judge in February ruled the project could go ahead…. Read More
As coastal erosion continues to threaten areas of the San Mateo County coastline with many suggesting the outer jetty at Pillar Point Harbor is exacerbating the degradation immediately south, locals have decided to take the reins after a federal agency declined to fund what some believe could be a solution — dredging the harbor. Last… Read More
DREDGING works in West Bay and Lyme Regis are set to being this weekend. West Dorset District Council will carry out the annual work in time for the busy summer season. The work at West Bay will being on Saturday (11) and last for eight days. No night shift work will be required to take… Read More
Tender documentation for two dredging projects in “Yuzhny” seaport was updated in e-procurement system “Prpzorro”, says Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. The working group of experts from Ukrainian Seaports Authority (USPA), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), as well as the law firm Arzinger has simplified the documentation in line with best world practices…. Read More
A discussion with a Singaporean company to dredge rivers in exchange for the excavated sand is underway, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said. He told the media at a programme in Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Sunday that the government was trying to have some of the big rivers dredged experimentally by foreigners. “They… Read More
Determined to reposition the National Inland Water Ways Authority (NIWA) to carry out one of its core mandates, its Managing Director, Barrister Boss Mustapha, has mobilized the organisation’s dredger to carry out maintenance dredging on Ajaokuta-Onitsha water ways. Mr. Mustapha made the declaration during the inauguration of the dredging committee at the NIWA headquarters in… Read More
Around £485,000 is to be ploughed into dredging work at both Pittenweem and Anstruther over the next two years. A further £80,000 has been set aside in Fife’s capital plan for a new ice plant at Pittenweem to replace the current facility which has been beset by constant breakdowns. Tom Mackenzie, from the Fife Fisherman’s… Read More