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
Rosmorport says the Kronshlot, new dredging ship of its North-West Basin Branch, started dredging operations at the port of Kaliningrad in early March 2017. According to the schedule, the ship is to dredge 350,000 cbm of material this year. Maintenance dredging will be performed along the entire seaway canal of Kaliningrad from point 222 to… Read More
The state Department of Environmental Protection said it will act to get Little Egg Inlet open in time for the summer. The sand build up in the inlet has gotten to the point where the U.S. Coast Guard removed the navigational buoys Monday, effectively making the inlet an enter at your own risk affair for… Read More
The buildup of sand in Hampton/Seabrook Harbor has selectmen from both towns and state officials appealing to New Hampshire’s congressional delegation for help getting federal money to dredge. Hampton/Seabrook Harbor has a history of shoaling, where waves create sandbars. The shoals are a hazard for boaters, especially at low tide, when a vessel might become… Read More
Bald Head Island has applied for a federal permit to tap a portion of Frying Pan Shoals, an area that includes fish habitat protected under federal law, as a future sand mine source. The shoals, a line of shallow sandbars trailing from the southeastern tip of Bald Head Island some 30 miles into the Atlantic… Read More
San Mateo County Resource Conservation District staff is working feverishly to complete a grant proposal that may prove to be Pescadero’s ticket out of flooding that has killed endangered fish and cut access to the town each winter. Initially, the RCD planned to submit a grant proposal in June that would have funded only designs… Read More
Work to fill Margate’s beaches and build dunes will begin just before Memorial Day and run through Labor Day, according to a document published on Margate City’s website here. The city and some Margate homeowners went to court to try and prevent the dunes, but a judge in February ruled the project could go ahead…. Read More