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Terrebonne Parish officials recently met with the local congressional delegation to discuss the importance of maintaining a 15-foot depth in the Houma Navigation Canal. “Local industry can’t survive if the entire channel is not dredged yearly to the federally authorized depth. If a tree fell across an interstate, it would be removed right away, but… Read More
Denise Wells, a Port Royal Plantation resident, navigated a narrow section of eroded beach Monday. The neighborhood saw the most damage from an October storm that washed away about 150,000 cubic yards of sand from Hilton Head Island, said Scott Liggett, the town’s director of public projects and facilities. The eroded state of Port Royal… Read More
Paul Jeffrey smiled, a wide grin of both happiness and relief, as he stood outside the new Ortley South Lifeguard Station in Ortley Beach on Friday afternoon. “It’s all coming together,” said Jeffrey, president of the Ortley Beach Voters and Taxpayers Association. His happiness wasn’t just about the reopened lifeguard building — another sign of… Read More
With the sun shining and warm temperatures, Lake Manawa in?Council Bluffs was a popular destination Tuesday afternoon. Kayakers paddled the perimeter, while tubers, water-skiiers and jet-skiiers had fun at higher speeds. And, of course, anglers tried their luck from the shore and from a boat. One vessel currently on the lake moves slower than the… Read More
Construction is set to begin next month on a $5 million bridge in Donaldsonville considered a critical part of a large-scale project that aims to increase Mississippi River water flow into the bayou. The Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District and the state will split the cost of the bridge for the project, titled the Mississippi River… Read More
THE State Government will spend $1.7 million so that the Port of Karumba can be dredged immediately. Karumba Livestock Exports manager Dean Bradford said the funding announcement was “bloody good”. The dredging will help the company increase the amount of locally sourced cattle it exports to countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam. “We’ve done 50,000… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comment on a permit application from the Port of Garibaldi to perform maintenance dredging in a section of Tillamook Bay to maintain operational depth in the Garibaldi boat basin at Mooring Drive and Biak Avenue. According to the Corps, the project would involve using a hydraulic… Read More
Rushing water stretching hundreds of miles in length is one way you can explain the Ouachita River. For Placid Refining Company they like to transports their oil by barge on this river rather than using trucks to transport by road. “Very cheap, relatively easy, very low on solution, very efficient and reasonable priced way to… Read More
The dredge “Macuti”, owned by the Mozambican Dredging Comoany (Emodraga), on Monday collided with a cargo ship in the access channel to the central Mozambican port of Beira. The cargo ship, a Panama-registered container vessel, was leaving Beira, on its way to the South African port of Durban. The weather was poor, with fog in… Read More
An emergency dredging project is wrapping up in Destin, just ahead of a crowded holiday weekend. The trouble spot is the channel at the mouth of the harbor. Captains have to dodge other boats to avoid crashing into each other. Captain Cliff Atwell sees an obstacle course of boats, waverunners and kayaks as he tries… Read More
A controversial project to deepen the Jacksonville ship channel inched forward Monday with the inclusion of $46.6 million in the port authority budget to deepen the St. Johns River to allow larger cargo ships. The capital and operating budgets for the 2017 fiscal year approved on Monday by the Jacksonville Port Authority’s board include money… Read More
Dozens of people living near the Mississippi River in Alexander County remain exposed to future flooding after a major levee breach earlier this year. It happened during the severe flooding that hit Southern Illinois over the winter. For months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis district has debated whether or not to fix… Read More
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After a years-long effort, North Myrtle Beach is preparing to review bids to dredge the Cherry Grove canals. On Monday night, North Myrtle Beach City Council passed the first reading of an ordiance to finalize the project’s financing. Dredging will remove silt from the finger canals; currently, enough sediment has built up in the waterways… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a meeting Wednesday at Long Beach City Hall. The topic is about rebuilding beach dunes, which, in addition to being beautiful and iconic, also serve as protection from high tides and storms. Officials will meet with residents to… Read More