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After 22 long days, the sand pumping and dredging in Rehoboth Beach has finished and the work is just getting started in Dewey. According to the Cape Gazette, the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company has completed their work in Rehoboth and our now working in Dewey. The total amount of sand pumped in Rehoboth… Read More
AT THE turn of last year 50 acres of Donal Hynes’ land in Lisnagry was underwater and he posed the question why hasn’t the Shannon been dredged? “There was nothing done on the river since Ardnacrusha was built – that will tell you the extent of the neglect,” said Mr Hynes, a former chairman of… Read More
Federal engineers will decide whether to allow dredging on part of Gastineau Channel so that barges with deeper drafts can dock south of Salmon Creek. The Juneau Empire reports Salmon Creek Development Co. submitted the request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers earlier in December. Joseph Smith filed the application on behalf of the… Read More
Ten communities in Maine will receive more than $2 million from the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program to restore natural habitats such as wetlands. The grant program is part of collaboration among the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The state says it will benefit 11… Read More
A panel that oversees state spending has approved the release of $1.3 million for design work and other pre-construction activities involving plans to replace a deteriorated central Ohio dam. The state Controlling Board recently approved the release for the Buckeye Lake dam rehabilitation project. Buckeye Lake’s 4.1-mile earthen dam is nearly 180 years old. Several… Read More
A group of West Harbour business owners and commercial boat operators are calling for action on the heavily silted Carey’s Bay pontoon. Only limited use can be made of the 13-metre Dunedin City Council-owned structure, which extends from the Carey’s Bay foreshore into the sheltered water of the bay. The silt surrounding it means it… Read More
The Harbor Management Commission voted at a special meeting held on Thursday night to submit the second draft of the Harbor Management Plan to town and state officials for approval. The meeting was scheduled to talk over changes made to the plan during the last couple of weeks, said Lile Gibbons, a commissioner who has… Read More
THE Canal & River Trust, has started work on a £1 million project to dredge sections of the 78-mile Kennet & Avon Canal. It will focus on areas where boaters are having difficulty mooring, navigating through bridges or getting stuck on the approach to locks. In total around 21,000 tonnes of silt – which is… Read More
Avalon has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Army Corps of Engineers, saying “an erroneous interpretation” of federal law may imperil future projects to restock sand on depleted beaches. The borough says the agencies tried to prevent Stone Harbor from drawing sand from nearby Hereford Inlet to complete a federally-funded… Read More
A little more than three weeks after Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company set up shop, dredging and sand pumping in Rehoboth has been completed and their equipment has made its way to Dewey. Steve Rochette, Army Corps of Engineer spokesman, said Dec. 15 the dredging company has been on site for 22 days and… Read More
The Port of Grays Harbor and the US Army Corps of Engineers celebrated the deeper draft project on Wednesday. While dredging officially began on October 3, residents and elected officials joined together on Wednesday to celebrate the project 40 years in the making. Grays Harbor dredging will bring the navigation channel to a deeper depth… Read More
The Bournemouth Beach Management Scheme, a 17 year plan in place to protect the local coastline, is seeing eight new groynes being replaced on the beach east of Fisherman’s Walk towards Southbourne. Work on the new groynes is due for completion sometime in late spring of 2017. The groynes replacement is part of the Bournemouth… Read More
A proposed buried seawall for the East Shore has gotten final approval, graduating from the feasibility phase and entering into the design phase, making progress toward its completion goal of 2021. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just completed the first of three phases to build the seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, and… Read More
A federally required environmental study of the proposed Sunwest channel dredge from Aripeka to the Gulf of Mexico could cost as much as $500,000, but neither Pasco County nor its private partner is ready to cover the cost. Last month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers notified the county that its May 18 application to… Read More
A consortium headed by EnviroWaste Services Limited has been awarded the contract for the removal of dioxin contaminated sediment from a 5.1km section of the Kopeopeo Canal near Whakatane. EnviroWaste will lead the contract and will be supported by a range of technical and specialist companies, with civil works carried out by local company Waiotahi… Read More