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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tuesday informed Aquinnah, Chilmark, and Wampanoag tribal officials that it has cleared the way for dredge contractor J-Way Southern of Avon, Ohio, to return to Martha’s Vineyard this fall to complete the unfinished $2.2 million project to dredge Menemsha Channel. J-Way is scheduled to begin mobilization activities in October,… Read More
East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell plans to speak out Wednesday night about the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point draft general reevaluation report. The public hearing is one of four scheduled on Long Island to discuss the next phase of the Fire Island to Montauk Point Project, a… Read More
The Georgetown County Public Services Department has scheduled a public meeting to present plans for an inlet dredging project expected to begin this fall, a press release from public information officer Jackie Broach said. The meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17, at the Murrells Inlet Community Center, located at 4462… Read More
The board of the Big Bear Municipal Water District voted 5-0 Sept. 15 to move forward with pursuing a 10-year maintenance-dredging permit for the district from the Army Corps of Engineers. An engineering services proposal from Moffat and Nichol was approved to not exceed $250,000 on the condition that Moffat and Nichol hold a scoping… Read More
Dredging was the main issue addressed at the Port of Lake Charles board meeting on Wednesday. Port board members approved a revision to the port’s tariff — a set of regulations governing its daily activities — that will now require incoming vessels to report their lowest draft, which is a measurement in feet for how… Read More
An access road to the city’s dredge material disposal site near the 34th Street bridge was completed last week, allowing the city a more affordable to option to continue dredge efforts in the back bay. “The completion of the temporary road to Site 83 is an extremely important step in restarting our bayside dredging program,”… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers plans to clear 40 acres of state-owned land on Burlington Island as a deposit site for Delaware River dredge spoils. The corps received 10 contractor bids Monday for the land clearing project. Tim Boyle, Army Corps of Engineers spokesman in Philadelphia, said the plan is to award a contract by… Read More
Duval County beaches are getting a face lift this fall as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bring in about 650,000 cubic yards of sand in an effort to slow shoreline erosion. The Duval County Shore Protection Project started in mid-September and will continue until November. The project spans from Ponte Vedra Boulevard and Duval… Read More
Beach replenishment is coming to northern Ocean County, at long last. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to advertise for bids later this month for the massive dune-building project from Manasquan to Barnegat inlets, according to Steve Rochette, a spokesman for the corps’ Philadelphia district. Rochette said the corps has been working on many… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a local forum Oct. 13 regarding General Electric’s recently completed dredging of PCB contamination in the Hudson River and the status of monitoring in the past year. The forum will begin at 4 p.m. in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt… Read More
An Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal dredging project that has resulted in the removal of almost 1 million cubic yards of sediment since 2012 resumed on Sept. 13. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversees the project that is a joint venture in which the Kokosing Construction Co., Inc. and O’Brien & Gere conduct the… Read More
Residents of Nsukwao, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region are calling for the immediate dredging of the Nsukwao River, which is now the main drainage system in the town. This follows the flooding of almost the entire community after a 30-minute downpour Sunday, which reportedly killed one person and destroyed property worth millions… Read More
Harry Slaughter sloshed through the muck – silt, a styrofoam Chick-fil-A cup, strewn branches – to get down by the water along the Gilmerton Deep Creek Canal. “It all comes down through here,” he said on a muggy morning last week, surveying the sediment. He got in his pickup and drove down alongside the canal… Read More
Members of the Coastal Waters Commission expressed frustration that dredging of the Saco River has not made the list for funding from the Army Corps of Engineers in recent years. At the Sept. 13 meeting, members discussed options to getting the river dredged, including increasing advocacy efforts among federal officials, or even funding the dredge… Read More
About 500 yards of sand per hour are being sucked from the bottom of Gordon Pass through more than 500 feet of pipe and spread onto the beach on Keewaydin Island. It is all part of a $1.7 million project to dredge Gordon Pass and make it more navigable for boaters. Right now, crews are… Read More