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After years of planning, the money is finally flowing in for a buried seawall project along the East Shore of Staten Island to protect against future Hurricane Sandy-like storms. Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently included $151 million in his 2017-2018 executive budget proposal, one and a half months after local lawmakers urged him to do so…. Read More
The Tulsa Port of Catoosa awarded a contract with a dredging company to remove silt build up in the channel, clearing it to a 12-foot depth. A contract of slightly more than $1 million was awarded to Illinois-based Mid-America Dredging by the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority at its January meeting. The work is… Read More
Small harbors in Michigan have a big problem. Over time, access to harbors gets blocked by sand and sediment, and the harbor needs to be dredged. But the money to pay for dredging just isn’t there anymore. In Leland, the problem has gotten so bad, the community has turned to a crowdfunding website to help… Read More
Farmers of upper and lower Pomeroon have called for the urgent dredging of the mouth of the Pomeroon River, improved drainage and irrigation and management of pest and diseases in coconuts and plantains. These and other concerns including the provision of titles to lands which they presently occupy for planting were raised during a meeting… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will halt work on dredging Port Everglades while it takes another look at potential environmental damage, according to federal court filings last week. The decision comes after environmentalists and recreational divers sued last year, saying the Corps relied on the same faulty assessment that left a mile-wide swath of… Read More
Three years from now, the city hopes a harbor dredging project that will allow the port to increase business and compete with other major shipping centers along the Northern Atlantic Coast will be approved with federal funding in place to start the work. The New Haven Port Authority, under its Executive Director Judi Sheiffele, has… Read More
The City Council approved a proposal Tuesday to contract with an international company to start the planning that’s necessary to dredge the Suisun Marina. If things go according to plan, dredging could start as early as August with work done in both the marina channel and in Whispering Bay. The contract with engineering planning firm… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers earlier this month announced it will begin routine depth maintenance in the Grand River in Fairport Harbor later this year. It’s an ongoing operation, officials report, necessary to maintain the depths required for large commercial vessels to enter and maneuver about the port. In a public notice posted on… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hopes to start dredging the Charleston Harbor by December, according to a project manager. State and federal lawmakers gathered Monday morning for a progress report on the Charleston Harbor Deepening project. The deepening project could rely heavily on what actions are taken by the Trump administration. The project still… Read More
The long-awaited expansion of Port Everglades appears likely to be delayed, this time for a new study of the project’s likely damage to coral. The new study comes as a result of a lawsuit by environmental groups against the Army Corps of Engineers, which the groups said understated the environmental impact of dredging the port…. Read More
Armed with new data from the August flood, Ascension Parish officials are going to revisit an old idea to dredge Bayou Manchac with the goal of improving drainage in the Spanish Lake and Bluff Swamp areas where water pooled for weeks last summer. Even after water retreated from the rest of the region, allowing people… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers encourages the public to provide input as part of an updated analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the Port Everglades navigation improvement project. An open comment period started in late September and will end March 24, 2017. The Corps’ Jacksonville District and Port Everglades will host… Read More
Workers have dredged and hauled away about 2,000 truckloads of contaminated sediment in the first phase of a long-awaited $50 million cleanup of a portion of Pompton Lake. Equipment at the site is now being removed for the winter, and activity won’t resume until March or April, when the far larger second phase of the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District and the Calhoun Port Authority will host a public scoping meeting on a project to widen and deepen the Matagorda Ship Channel in Calhoun and Matagorda counties. The meeting will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Jan 24 at the Bauer Civic Center, 2300 SH… Read More
Sarasota city officials and Lido Key leaders waded into the deep end of the controversial plan to dredge Big Pass on Saturday morning and issued harsh words against their Siesta Key neighbors. “I have some good news, some bad news and some challenging news,” City Manager Tom Barwin told almost 200 attendees at the annual… Read More