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The view from the observation deck over a meadow of brown marsh grasses would make a nice postcard. Eagles roost on tall pines, muskrats burrow in mounds of mud and straw, and black ducks splash in a pond. But on a cold and drizzly day, Matt Whitbeck surveys the landscape with concern. Beyond the marsh… Read More
A potential solution to a troublesome sand shortage off Southeast Florida is tucked away in a massive water resources funding bill President Barack Obama signed into law last month. The 2016 Water Resources Development Act authorizes the Army Corps of Engineers to study the potential of using foreign sand, such as from the Bahamas, to… Read More
Madison County Planning & Development, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Heartlands Conservancy are joining forces and hosting two open houses for the Canteen and Indian-Cahokia Creek Watershed plans, the first from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 17 at the Madison County Farm Bureau and the second from 6 p.m. to 8… Read More
This resort’s City Council held its last regularly scheduled meeting of 2016 Dec. 29 at 1 p.m. instead of the usual 7 p.m. because of the New Year’s holiday. Mayor Jay Gillian expanded on the report he had given earlier at a town hall meeting on dredging plans for the municipality. Ocean City, per city… Read More
When giant dredging vessels left Casco Bay last year, most residents may have assumed they’d seen the last of their kind for at least a decade. But another underwater dig, talked about by officials on both sides of the Fore River going back at least a decade, is now on tap. While the just-completed project… Read More
City officials hope a $15 million beach replenishment project that began last week will also address a dangerous tidal pool at the Cove beach. “It was made clear by Army Corps of Engineers that was an item that needed to be addressed and resolved as part of this project,” City Manager Bruce MacLeod said. In… Read More
Minnesota is asking a federal judge to stop planned construction on a $2.1 billion Red River flood diversion project that has pitted the state against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Dakota and Fargo-Moorhead. It’s another escalation in a contentious disagreement over one of the largest public works projects on the federal drawing board,… Read More
A major stage in the recovery of Kaikura started 29 December, with work starting on the main commercial harbour. Last month’s earthquake caused much of the seabed to rise, stranding companies such as Whale Watch and Dolphin Encounter, vital to the town’s economy. The initial repair work includes dredging the harbour – scraping away some… Read More
The scope of dredging at the seaports of Ukraine performed from the beginning of the year exceeded 44. mln cbm, says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA). Dredging works have been completed at the inner harbor and at the access canal to Mariupol port’s Coal Harbour (1.3 mln cbm of dredged material); at… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold a public meeting at the Fort Peck Interpretive Center on Feb. 7 in conjunction with the release of the draft Missouri River Recovery Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement. The meeting is scheduled from 5 to 8:45 p.m. The format will consist of an open house from… Read More
Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited, the concessionaire for the Kingston Container Terminal, says it will begin dredging within the shipping channel and Kingston Harbour next month. The company says the work will start on January 4 and is to last for a period of six to eight months and will be executed on a 24 hour… Read More
Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority says 99,000 cbm of soil is to be excavated at specialized seaport Oktyabrsk. The dredging works will be held in the operational water area of the Northern and Southern basins. Last time such works were performed at the port in 2007. Excavating works were started when testing a new hopper barge,… Read More
In a decade, the cost for deepening and widening of Mumbai’s harbour and port channels has shot up by 154% from Rs 800 crore to Rs 2,029 crore, and by the time the project is completed, there may be more price revisions. The plan to deepen and widen Mumbai harbour channel and port channel (Phase… Read More
CentrePort’s plans to dredge more than 6 million cubic metres of sediment from Wellington Harbour have hit a snag due to the November 14 Kaikoura earthquake. The port is hoping to gain resource consent to deepen a 7-kilometre channel for heavy sea traffic into the harbour, at a cost of between $37 million and $44m…. Read More
Industry once dominated Ashland’s waterfront on Lake Superior’s shores. State and federal regulators recently signed off on a method to clean up wood waste and other toxins left behind by companies a century ago. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have approved a wet dredge of contaminants on Ashland’s shoreline…. Read More