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Palm Beach has one of the best restored beaches in the country, according to a national coastal preservation association. The American Shore & Beach Preservation Association announced Tuesday that Phipps Ocean Park is one of five locations on its annual list of the nation’s best restored beaches. Last winter and spring, the town spent $16.5… Read More
A lengthy beach replenishment project stretching from Long Branch to Loch Arbour will finally be completed next month. “It’s been ongoing for about 3 years now and that was done in multiple phases, primarily to deal with coastal protection,” New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin announced today. Martin made the announcement… Read More
Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi thanked the Central government and minister of road transport and highways and shipping Nitin Gadkari for sending hi-tech machines of Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) to Puducherry for the work of ambitious beach nourishment project. Apart from the hi-tech cutter suction dredger, which is already in service, a trailer suction… Read More
Broward County’s Port Everglades received unanimous approval today from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners to begin a $437.5 million expansion project to add new berths for larger cargo ships and install crane rail infrastructure for new Super Post-Panamax cranes. Currently, Port Everglades is berth constrained and additional dock space for cargo ships is… Read More
Oceanside’s beaches will be wider this year and there should be fewer big black pipes snaking across the sand at the height of the tourist season, Army Corps of Engineers officials said. The annual dredging operation carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers is going more smoothly this summer than last year, when a… Read More
The Port Chalmers Yacht Club is urging the Otago Regional Council to undertake a dredging programme at Back Beach and Careys Bay. Graeme Wall, of the club, made that point, linked to the club’s earlier written submission, at an Otago Regional Council draft annual plan hearing in Dunedin yesterday. Mr Wall indicated that Back Beach… Read More
City Council gave final approval Tuesday night for an $18.5 million bond ordinance to finance road construction, drainage upgrades, dredging projects and other public improvements that represent a major piece of Mayor Jay Gillian’s 2017 capital plan. Voting 6-0 on the funding package, Council has been working hand-in-hand with Gillian’s administration on what is shaping… Read More
A FERRY company, commuters and tourists have had a “big win” after the State Government revealed it would stump up $100,000 for emergency dredging works at the Ettalong channel in the next three months. The decades-old bureaucratic brawl over who is responsible for the channel’s dredging — now estimated to cost $5 million — was… Read More
A plan first announced two years ago to expand the cruise port of Falmouth to accommodate two of the world’s largest ships simultaneously is to be executed this year, pending approval from the planning authority. It will require the dredging and expansion of one of the two berths at the Falmouth pier. The berth to… Read More
The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has pressed into service a trailer suction hopper dredger in addition to its hi-tech cutter section dredger to deepen the outer channel near the Ariyankuppam breakwater for commencement of operation of the Puducherry port and also for the ongoing beach nourishment project. The Government of Puducherry had awarded the… Read More
The project to expand Incheon port, South Korea’s second-largest maritime gateway, by dredging the nearby seafloor, will be completed by the end of this month, the ministry said Wednesday. The harbor, which is currently 14 meters deep, will be dredged to 16 meters to allow large ships, such as 8,000 twenty-foot equivalent (TEU) container vessels,… Read More
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council will place a draft maintenance plan for the Settlement Shores canals on public exhibition from May 30. The draft plan will guide maintenance activities within the Settlement Shores estate over the next 10 years. This includes maintenance undertaken by both council and private land owners. Some of the main maintenance activities identified… Read More
As Jacksonville considers spending big bucks to deepen its ship channel, the port of Savannah continues to solidify its position as the busiest hub in the Southeast while closing in on another record-setting year for cargo business. The Savannah seaport is on track to beat its previous record of about 3.67 million cargo container units… Read More
A $34.5 million project to widen seven miles of Norfolk beachfront is completed. Under the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, contractors with the Great Lakes Dredging and Dock Company worked around the clock to dredge 1.2 million cubic yards of sand and pump it onto the stretch of waterfront in the city’s… Read More
The large fences and dust cloth on the corner of SH30 and Kope Drain Road outside Whakat?ne marks the start of construction of Containment Site 1 (CS1) for the Kopeopeo Canal Remediation Project. The Project Manager, Brendon Love, said that April and May had been a busy months working with the contractors, EnviroWaste Ltd, to… Read More