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Crews this winter will conduct dredging of a small section of the Intracoastal Waterway across from Middle Sound, with New Hanover County picking up the tab. The work will involve cleaning sand out of the channel in and around the mouth of Mason Creek. The county is on the hook for the dredging work as… Read More
WORK to install new groynes along Bournemouth’s beaches will take place this winter. As part of the council’s ongoing beach management scheme to protect the coastline, eight groynes will be replaced along the stretch of beach from east of Fisherman’s Walk towards Southbourne. The work is due to be completed by late spring 2017. The… Read More
Hamburg Town Board members added more money for dredging at the Town Park boat launch and for paving roads in next year’s budget. The board also adjusted some revenues, resulting in a tax increase similar to those proposed in Supervisor Steven Walter’s tentative 2017 budget. The $45.85 million budget, which goes over the tax cap… Read More
The Big Bear Municipal Water District is one step closer to securing a long-term maintenance dredging permit. The MWD lake improvement committee — composed of director Vince Smith and board president Charlie Brewster — discussed drafted environmental and engineering request for proposals at the committee meeting Nov. 10. “Here’s the deal, the minute we have… Read More
Pipes, barges and dredging equipment have left Oceanside beaches after the completion of harbor dredging that went on for an unusually long five months. Annual dredging removes built-up sand from the harbor channel and puts it on city beaches. This year operations got off to a late start, with an initial pledge to be done… Read More
New techniques for dredging the River Parrett are being tested this November and December, as Somerset Rivers Authority seeks cheaper and better ways of maintaining tidal rivers. Three weeks of trials are being carried out between Westonzoyland Pumping Station and Burrowbridge to see how effective water injection dredging and agitation dredging can be at getting… Read More
After a hiatus of several weeks, the federal project to dredge the Napa River will resume Wednesday morning, city officials said. A contractor hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin excavating the river near the Napa Pipe site south of downtown, according to city spokeswoman Jaina French. Dredging will shift to the… Read More
As expected, Measure O sailed to victory Tuesday night with more than 87 percent of voters on the Tiburon Peninsula in favor of a 25 percent parcel tax increase to pay for two dredging cycles intended to keep Paradise Cay a waterfront community. With 68 votes, 87 percent, in favor of the measure and only… Read More
Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says it will do its best to ensure that infrastructure such as the dredging of the much talked about Calabar port channels is carried out very quickly to curb revenue loss and attract foreign investment. Emmanuel Adesoye, the board chairman, gave this assurance at an interactive session with… Read More
Terrebonne Parish is closer to getting a permit to begin seeking bids for the Falgout Canal Floodgate in Dularge. Parish President Gordy Dove said the draft permits from the state have been received and the project is now waiting on approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “We should be looking at the permitting… Read More
Enviromental concerns, including about a nationally recognised surf break at Aramoana, were highlighted yesterday during a consent hearing into Port Otago’s proposed plans to dispose of future dredging spoil. The second phase of Port Otago’s $30 million ”Next Generation” dredging project, to widen and deepen the 13km shipping channel between Taiaroa Head and Port Chalmers,… Read More
THE boom in the country’s property sector could be sustained by a colossal project to be undertaken by the partnership between All-Asia Resources and Reclamation Corp. (ARRC) and Belle Corp. On October 29 the two companies signed a shareholder’s agreement in support of the $50-billion Philippine Global Gateway Project (PGGP) that involves the construction of… Read More
State environmental officials have overseen repairs to coral reefs believed to have been damaged last spring by a contractor traveling through coastal waters near the town. Representatives of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection met with the contractor, Weeks Marine, in a June 17 “informal enforcement meeting” to discuss damage to the reefs. CSA Ocean… Read More
Pennsylvania’s lagging Bay cleanup got a much-needed fiscal transfusion when restoration leaders met in early October and pledged $28 million to fund conservation efforts in the commonwealth. But as lawmakers in Harrisburg were reminded a couple of weeks later, the Keystone State still faces a huge funding gap over the coming decade to meet its… Read More
State and federal officials are celebrating the successful completion of the $38 million restoration project at Delaware’s Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. It is being touted as the largest restoration project on the East Coast. Beginning in 2015, the federally funded project increased storm resiliency and remediated damage to the marsh from Superstorm Sandy in… Read More