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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Saturday updated Fire Islanders on its anti-flood plans, which have encountered delays and hitches. The agency, now building dunes on one-third of the barrier island, already has done emergency repairs to the new dunes it had built at Robbins Rest and Smith Point County Park, Fire Islanders said…. Read More
Under the sun-drenched, unassuming waters just past Cedar Island, time has spread the sands from low-lying bodies and nesting islands into the sea, clogging the arteries of cardinal waterways traversed by the quiet fishing communities of Down East. Now, longtime Commissioner Jonathan Robinson helms the charge for county-led maintenance of the channel at Wainwright Slough,… Read More
New York State plans to take legal action if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalizes a proposal to dump what critics have called potentially harmful sludge in the eastern Long Island Sound, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s chief legal counsel said Saturday. The attorney, Alphonso David, said Cuomo’s office would ask a federal judge to stop… Read More
Chief Minister, Ms Mehbooba Mufti has directed the Irrigation and Flood Control Department to expedite the dredging work in the river Jhelum and crucial flood channels on war-footing to ensure that the flood like situations of 2014 is not repeated at any cost in future. Reviewing the progress of dredging, the Chief Minister directed that… Read More
Many Delta farmers and politicians are mounting an effort to dredge deeper channels in the White River, a waterway that has not been fully navigable by barges since a 2011 flood. In February, agriculture shipping and export company Bunge North America closed the final three of its five ports along the river. And so, with… Read More
A contract for the dredging of the clogged Mianus River channel is close to being signed, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In all, about 50,000 cubic yards of sediment are expected to be scooped from the federal channel, which has not been dredged in more than 30 years. The project, requested by… Read More
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has been hit with a $23 million lawsuit by two construction companies that were hired to dredge New Bedford harbor because, according to the lawsuit, the agency misrepresented the complexity of the undertaking. “Fundamentally, given the actual conditions encountered, the project could not be constructed as designed,” attorneys for Cashman… Read More
A longtime wish is about to be granted for boaters in Naples. Gordon Pass is going to be dredged. Captain Elizabeth Bloch has been leading sailing charters for years. For the past few years, she’s had to change the way she runs her business because of sand shoals in the pass. “The pass is too… Read More
A licence application to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) for the construction of a new pedestrian bridge crossing the River Thames has been approved. The marine licence for the Garden Bridge was granted after an Environmental Impact Assessment consent decision was completed. The consent decision, which included public consultation on the proposed project, found potential… Read More
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West Point lobster fishermen are breathing a sigh of relief now that a dredge is pumping sand away from the channel outside of the harbour entrance. The equipment arrived on Monday and has been operational since Tuesday. The mouth of the harbour hasn’t been touched yet and the sandbar rises out of the water to… Read More