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A private group is stepping up its efforts to find a solution for the accumulation of silt in Bend’s Mirror Pond. Tuesday evening, the Bend Park & Recreation District Board approved an agreement with Mirror Pond Solutions LLC, a partnership between Bend businessmen Bill Smith and Todd Taylor. Smith, developer of the Old Mill District,… Read More
Downtime and maintenance expense on the lake dredge are growing costly, without much production being seen for the money so far this season. Currently dredging is at a standstill due to problems with the heat exchangers on the dredge boat. Only two full days of dredging have been done to date this season, and work… Read More
Ste. Genevieve County Presiding Commissioner Garry Nelson said he has contacted a couple of companies to see if they would be interested in bidding on becoming the next stevedore for the Port of New Bourbon. The New Bourbon Port Authority recently received a letter from Beelman River Terminals stating its intent to withdraw from the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District began dredging at Rochester Harbor on May 17 and will continue through mid-June. As part of the two-year, $1,722,500 contract awarded to Luedtke Engineering Co., of Frankfort, Michigan, 210,000 cubic yards of sediment will be dredged from the federal navigation channel this year. The contractor started working… Read More
Two major flood prevention schemes, costing a combined €22m, are to get under way in Co Cork within a couple of weeks. It’s expected a contractor will be appointed for the Bandon scheme within days and work on it will start by mid-July. Minister of State Seán Canney, who has special responsibility for flood relief… Read More
Boaters now have improved access to the lower Willamette and Columbia rivers now that a dredging project at Scappose Bay Marine Park is complete. Prior to the project, boats were grounding out in the channel at low tide. The channel was deepened around the boat ramp and short term boat moorage, improving safety for recreational… Read More
Dredging is being considered as a short-term measure to reduce the risk of flooding in Cockermouth. Six months ago the town’s defences were overtopped during the floods of Storm Desmond. Last night, 150 people packed into Christ Church in the town for a public meeting to discuss a Flood Investigation Report put together by the… Read More
The annual dredging of the Oceanside harbor was set to get under way this weekend, about two months later than usual — a delay that some say has led to dangerous conditions. Each year around April, the Army Corps of Engineers removes about 180,000 cubic yards of sand from the mouth of the harbor, where… Read More
The Saginaw River will receive more than $3 million in dredging his year, according to Saginaw County officials. A technicality nearly stalled the project, important to keep the shipping channel open for freighters, but the Saginaw County Board of Commissioners made the decision that was needed to move it forward Monday, June 6. The situation… Read More
Kansas owns water storage in 14 federal reservoirs managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But the storage capacity of those lakes is gradually diminishing, as topsoil from waterways and farms upstream washes into the reservoirs and settles to the bottom. As Heartland Health Monitor’s Bryan Thompson explains, state officials recently began trying to… Read More
CentrePort has confirmed the possibility of material from its proposed harbour dredge being used for the Wellington Airport runway extension. The port company is applying for consent to dredge a seven-kilometre channel to allow bigger ships through the harbour entrance, and to deepen the area around the Thorndon container wharf. The dredged material, enough to… Read More
Work on the cruise berthing facility is forging ahead as Government is expected to appoint a civil engineering firm by mid-month to produce the new design and a costing for the contentious cruise berthing facility. Deputy Premier and Tourism Minister Hon Moses Kirkconnell made the announcement while speaking during the budget debate on Government’s $862.4million… Read More
“Diversity is a good thing,” project manager Tom Novak of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St Paul District said, when talking about the natural diversity resulting from a dredging and construction campaign at Harpers Slough on the Mississippi River in Iowa. The project is creating river islands that protect other islands, all of… Read More
U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow today announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is awarding the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality $3,795,056 to help continue the cleanup of contaminated sediment from industrial waste in the Manistique River. This support will help MDEQ develop and implement measures to remediate poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCB)… Read More
Long-awaited dredging of the harbour at Hay River, N.W.T., could begin in 2017. Members of the community have spent years urging the territorial government to take action on dredging, claiming the build-up of debris in the harbour not only disrupts transport and fishing but also poses a flood risk during spring breakup. However, progress has… Read More