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City officials and representatives from the engineering firm hired to handle Ocean City’s bay and lagoon dredging program will hold two meetings Saturday, Aug. 20 for residents in neighborhoods set to be dredged later this year. The city plans to finish the incomplete 2015 job in Snug Harbor between Eighth Street and Revere Place, and… Read More
THE latest phase in the large scale dredging work on the River Parrett was successfully completed last week. Contractors have spent the past three months removing 13,000 cubic metres of material from a 750m stretch of the Parrett between Northmoor Pumping Station and Linden Farm. The work was funded and commissioned by the Somerset Rivers… Read More
The Mississippi River Commission docked in Helena-West Helena on Tuesday morning as part of the seven-member panel’s annual trip down the river to meet with stakeholders and residents in selected cities. Arkansans made presentations on several proposed projects and concerns related to the river and its tributaries, but commissioners and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
Construction of multimodal terminals at Haldia in West Bengal and Sahibganj in Jharkhand, and development of Farakka navigation lock will start by November under the Jal Marg Vikas Project, an official said on Tuesday. The National Waterway-1 (NW-1) is being developed under the Jal Marg Vikas Project on river Ganga between Allahabad and Haldia to… Read More
A presentation on the town’s plans to dredge Mountain View Lake drew 70 people to the Owls Head Fire Station on Monday. Three people described by town Supervisor H. Bruce Russell as “key players” –– Chastity Miller of the Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District; Liz Moran, president of the consulting firm working with… Read More
THE Shannon CFRAM Report (Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management) was published recently and it has disappointed and frustrated many people, who had hoped it would tackle the age-old problem of flooding in the Shannon system. There are many dubious things about the Report. For example it finds that the level of flood risk is… Read More
Contamination of the river may be more than surface deep as questions arise about sand blocking a water intake and what removing it might unearth into the water. Prior to the oil leak, North Battleford dredged sand around the F.E. Holiday Water Plants water intake in an effort to unclog it. Operations ceased due to… Read More
Huston Township supervisors will meet Aug. 24 to discuss engineering and permitting details of a possible flood control project on Bennett Branch, according to a state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) official. They will meet with their consultant, contractor and state officials, according to Daniel Spadoni, community relations coordinator with the DEP Regional Director’s Office… Read More
The next phase of a beach renourishment project is getting ready to begin. Some equipment has found a nice spot on the white silky beach near the Resort at Longboat Key Club. It’s machinery that’ll transform eroded beaches on both ends of Longboat Key. Jane and John Rayhack of Tampa are happy to see this… Read More
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If local and area residents would like to see the Ouachita River remain a viable channel for commercial traffic and recreational use and, “If you want to keep what you have,” congressional representatives should be contacted to request that adequate federal funding be provided to maintain and operate the river. Bill Hobgood, executive director of… Read More
The $550 million Charleston Harbor deepening project won’t move a grain of sand across the jetties. That continues to leave short the seriously eroding Folly Beach and Morris Island beaches. The pair of 3-mile-long rock jetties extending like canal walls out of the harbor effectively block much of the north-to-south flow of sand in the… Read More
Delays caused by congestion in the Port of Ogdensburg can cost shipping companies $10,000 per day. The dock can handle only one ship at a time. Additional problems are caused by the fact that the port has not been dredged in more than 30 years. U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to see these… Read More
Governor Christie returns to work today after a week-long vacation to announce progress on a flood-management project in Somerset County. Christie is scheduled to make the announcement this morning at Billian Legion Park in Bound Brook, along with Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin. The announcement will focus on the Green Brook flood risk… Read More