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Since the new year, Holden Beach has been working to get their coastline into tip top shape before the upcoming tourism season. This $15 million project called the Central Reach Project is designed to take sand from the ocean floor and pump it onto shore. Town Manager David Hewett said dredging will add storm damage… Read More
The Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol is assisting boaters who are coming into and out of the main channel because of a recent surge of sand at the entrance. Winter storms have clogged the normal opening. Buoys mark the deepest sections, and at low tide some boat owners are not able to move through, so they… Read More
With effect from 27 February 2017 and for a period of approximately 6 months, dredging operations will be carried out within the area bounded by straight lines joining the following co-ordinates (WGS 84 Datum) from (A) to (E) and the adjacent shoreline: (A) 22° 20.325’N / 114° 06.902’E (B) 22° 20.333’N / 114° 06.930’E (C)… Read More
Large chunks of the dunes along some of Ocean City’s north end beaches have been sliced away, as though someone took a gigantic cleaver and cut them in half. What’s left are cliff-like walls of sand that tower 7 or 8 feet above the beach in spots between Third and Fifth streets. Although Ocean City… Read More
People from the American Samoa village of Aua have made it known to the US Army Corps of Engineers that they want their lands cleaned of leftover fuel from when the Navy had fuel tanks there. The Commander of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant Colonel James Hoyman and a team of seven, have… Read More
The authorities of Klaipeda Seaport approved its plan for maximum expansion to improve competitiveness. The plans for the Lithuanian port include extensive dredging, construction and reconstruction of quays, repair of railway tracks among other works. According to the plans the southern part of Klaipeda Seaport will be expanded by dredging the embankments in the territory… Read More
On Thursday, a crew started dredging the Edgartown Great Pond. Paul Bagnall, marine biologist and shellfish constable for the town of Edgartown, told The Times that plans are to open the Edgartown Great Pond to the ocean around March 15, weather permitting. The dredging is paid for by the Edgartown Ponds Foundation, with work being… Read More
Phase 1 of the Grand Canal Dredging project in Balboa Island, which began Dec. 5, 2016, was completed to the satisfaction of the Newport Beach Public Works Department. Dredging is necessary for this channel in Newport Beach as it is difficult for boaters to navigate in low tides. Newport Beach City Council awarded Associated Pacific… Read More
THE mouth of the Boyne River will be dredged to make a safer passage for the region’s boat owners. Money has also been allocated to seal the carpark at the NRG power station boat ramp. The State Government has given Gladstone Ports Corporation $1.5 million to complete the two projects. Member for Gladstone Glenn Butcher… Read More
Ground has broken on one of the most controversial projects in Haines in recent years. The small boat harbor expansion is entering its first phase of development. Over the next year, contractors will deepen the harbor basin, build a steel wave barrier, replace moorage pilings and add on to the uplands area. “There’s gonna need… Read More
Suspected kidnappers have abducted two sand dredgers at Eleko Village in Ibeju Lekki Local Council of Lagos State on Tuesday. It was gathered that the gunmen who came through the Lagoon around 9:00a.m. were shooting sporadically before they took the two dredgers away in their speedboat. Those abducted were the dredging company manager and a… Read More
A proposal by Wicklow County Council to dump up to 200,000 tonnes of inert material dredged from the Dargle river onto environmentally-protected land has been rejected by An Bord Pleanála. The 5.6 hectare site between Kilcoole and Delgany was chosen by the council, even though it had previously declared that the triangular plot should be… Read More
Reporting by Helen Murphy; Editing by Peter Cooney Colombia’s government has begun termination of an $861 million contract to restore navigability of the Magdalena River that was led by Brazil’sOdebrecht, the government said on Wednesday. The decision was made after Odebrecht, which faces allegations of corruption in Colombia and other Latin American countries, failed to… Read More
Sarnia Harbour is a little deeper and the city’s airport a little hillier after dredging wrapped up late last month, says the city’s economic development director. Some 35,000 to 40,000 cubic metres of riverbed sediment was scooped after work started in the early fall, said Peter Hungerford, and trucked to the Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport… Read More
With the start of another taxpayer-funded, $128 million Army Corps of Engineers beach-building project just weeks away, one last group of New Jersey’s seaside homeowners were in court last week, essentially saying: “No thanks.” Bay Head, N.J., is a Victorian-era oceanfront enclave of stately homes, perched behind a stone revetment to protect them from storm… Read More