Minister for Public Works and Parliamentary Affairs, Abdul Rehman Veeri, Sunday conducted an extensive tour of summer capital Srinagar and took stock of progress made on various ongoing key developmental projects. Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr Farooq Ahmad Lone, Chief Engineer R&B, Executive Engineers of ERA and R&B, besides officers from Police and other concerned Departments… Read More
The Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) on Friday formally announced the conclusion of the dredging of the port access channel, deepening it from 11 to 14.2 metres. This difference “may not seem much, but it’s those additional three metres which allow us today to state proudly that we are a port which can receive Capesize… Read More
The first phase of salt marsh restoration at the John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge in Narragansett started Nov. 21 and was completed in late January. The project is being undertaken by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy in conjunction with groups like the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council. “Rhode… Read More
Silt from the bottom of South Slough is being piled up along the canal’s banks. Contractors from Chem South Spray of Gonzales have been working since mid-January on a major Tangipahoa Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 1 project that aims to deepen the canal to roughly five feet. The $1.19 million project also involves removing… Read More
New, nutrient removal process proves successful on Turkey Creek Muck Removal Project, Palm Bay, Florida on the Indian River Lagoon which suffers from high levels of harmful nutrients. Gator Dredging has completed the muck removal from Turkey Creek, located in Palm Bay, FL under budget and ahead of schedule. Part of the larger Indian River… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Boat Capt. Ryan Schuman looks out the window of the boat, “Linthicum.” “This is my office,” he says, with a smile. He is part of a team overseeing the dredging project right now in Baltimore’s Harbor. Time has eroded away some of the shipping channels. They need to be at… Read More
The harbor bottom of Morro Bay is getting a good cleaning thanks to a dredging operation taking place in the bay. Crews remove mud, weed and trash from the harbor floor using a scooping tool called a dredge. The operation is set to pump around 400 cubic yards of sand every hour out of the… Read More
Long-running environmental objections to further dredging of the Elbe river serving the Port of Hamburg were dismissed by Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig yesterday. However, start of the planned deepening and widening work on the navigation channel is still dependent on two environmental conditions: finding an alternative site to replant a rare indigenous plant… Read More
PORTS North have not yet been able to decide upon its preferred location for the land- based dumping of a million cubic metres of dredge spoil from Trinity Inlet. The authority has released early results from its draft Environmental Impact Statement for its Cairns Shipping Development Project, which it says is on track to be… Read More
The scope of maintenance dredging planned by FSUE Rosmorport for 2017 is to total 420,000 cbm at the port of Makhachkala. Rosmorport says the main target of the works is to ensure design dimensions of hydraulic engineering structures at the port. The project on maintenance dredging in the water area and at the approaches to… Read More
A new general permit that streamlines approvals for small-scale dredging in the state’s lakes, rivers and streams has been drafted and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is seeking public comment on the language. The public comment period on the general permit runs until the close of business March 3, 2017. The proposed general permit,… Read More
Relief is on the way for Charlotte County’s shrinking shoreline. The county will soon begin the Stump Pass Dredging Project, a initiative to replenish the sand eroded by tropical storms Hermine and Colin. Dredging crews will widen the pass and pipe sand along the shoreline of Stump Pass Beach State Park. Chadwick Park, which is… Read More
More than 15,000 tonnes of silt is to be dredged from the Ribble Link and parts of the Lancaster Canal near Preston. The work is part of a £750,000 investment to improve the water network, making it easier to navigate and improving the habitat for birds and wildlife. Mark Weatherall, senior project manager at the… Read More
The Representative Town Meeting (RTM) Tuesday night voted 31 to 1 with 1 abstention to appropriate $1.265 million to dredge the Compo Beach marina and adjacent channel. It then spent more than two hours on a nonbinding recommendation on who should pay for it, finally voting just after midnight 16 to 15 to recommend slip… Read More
The government of Argentina has received bids in the first three tenders for projects under its US$900mn Salado river basin master plan. The tenders are for contracts to carry out widening and deepening work along 35km of the Salado river (pictured) in Buenos Aires province, to help prevent flooding of farmland. Work to relocate, and… Read More