The final agreement everybody on the Dare County Waterways Commission has been waiting months for may, or may not, allow dredging in Hatteras Inlet to begin this month. In fact, the memorandum of agreement between the state, the county and the Corps has seemed stuck on its own kind of bureaucratic shoal. At the March… Read More
The Port of Kalama Commission this week approved the final lease agreement with McMenamins to build a new hotel and brewpub on Port property. Construction of the facility is expected to commence on the site within the next 60 days. The new McMenamins destination will include a 40-room hotel, meeting rooms, gift shop, restaurant, brewery,… Read More
Contractors could charge as much as £40 million to dredge the Marine Lake of a huge build up of rubbish. Prams, trolleys and bikes are all known to be littering the Marine Lake bed on the promenade – a regularly recurring act of wanton vandalism – and the build up of rubbish is having a… Read More
A milestone in the Pee Dee was celebrated, as leaders from across the state joined the South Carolina Ports Authority for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Dillon port expansion. The ceremony took place on the 15- acre industrial park on Fairfield Road, where the new inland port will be. “We will be the only state… Read More
The beaches of Pinellas County attract millions of visitors every year from across the Tampa Bay area and around the world. However, with several recent storms that stalled over Pinellas County over the past few years, erosion has become a major issue for the area beaches. Since 2012, the county has focused on beach nourishment… Read More
The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources has temporarily halted the dredging of a water channel at the Hua Hin-Pattaya ferry pier for fear it would adversely affect the marine habitat, ecological system and artifical coral reefs in the area. The dredging is being done by the Marine Department, to create a channel for use… Read More
Sen. Rob Portman says he met with a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representative Tuesday to discuss continued efforts to dredge the Port of Cleveland and to press for answers. The senator said he expects the Corps to cooperate with a Senate “investigation into reports that the Corps cut its own budget as an excuse… Read More
Following a request from the Chairman of East Devon District Council, Councillor Stuart Hughes, councillors will delay discussing the Sidmouth and East Beach Management Plan (BMP) to a future date to allow the project’s Steering Group (SG) time to understand the considerations made during the Options Appraisal at the next SG meeting on 15 March… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to conduct emergency dredging operations along a stretch of the lower Kennebec River between Phippsburg and Bath. The work is designed to ensure the safe passage along the 500-foot-wide river channel of Navy destroyers built at Bath Iron Works. The ships enter the Atlantic Ocean at the… Read More
Dominican Port Authority director Víctor Gomez on Monday announced that the dredging is finished in Puerto Plata’s port and the the San Marcos river and other tributaries that flow into the bay. He said the dredging to remove sediments lasted three weeks, with the depth was increased to 33 feet along the access channel area… Read More
Workmen needed a weekend and two recovery vehicles to rescue a £100,000 digger after it submerged in the middle of a harbour. The 22-tonne machine was being used to dredge excess silt from West Bay harbour in Dorset – made famous by the ITV series Broadchurch – at low tide when it got bogged down… Read More
Reports of dredging activities on Caye Chapel are once again raising concerns. A dredging machine has been spotted in front of the island, and many environmental and tourism organizations are expressing their disapproval over the ‘beach re-creation’ at Caye Chapel. The project has allegedly been given the green light, despite not undergoing an Environmental Impact… Read More
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