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While the elevator shafts and steel framing of Columbia County’s under-construction administration building start to redefine the Portage skyline, another change, just as far-reaching, is scheduled to take place in Portage Canal. Starting in about 2½ weeks, a dredge will pull from the canal’s murky waters more than a century of accumulated, contaminated sediment. Columbia… Read More
Starting May 16, the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) will hold public hearings in Astoria, Tillamook, Newport, Coos Bay and Bandon to seek comments on two sets of administrative rules governing the state-owned waterway management and leasing program and the establishment of a new General Permit for Navigational Access Maintenance Dredging. The waterway rulemaking… Read More
Just as loggerhead sea turtle and the least tern nesting season begins, truckloads of pipe have began rolling onto Hideaway Beach for a two-and-a-half month dredging project to move 40,000 cubic yards of sand from the end of Sand Dollar Island as part of the 2016 Hideaway erosion project. Under the plan, Hideaway Beach will… Read More
Preparations have begun at the former Catalyst Paper sewage lagoon in order to get it ready for city usage. “We’ve started dredging the lagoon to prepare for the switch,” said City of Port Alberni major projects advisor Ken Watson. The city purchased Catalyst Paper’s former lagoon in 2011 at a cost of $5.7 million and… Read More
About RUB 1 billion will be invested in dredging of Volga-Caspian Shipping Canal and clearing of the canal bed in 2016. Last year 638 million rubles were invested in the VCSC dredging. As part of maintenance dredging 17 million cbm of materials have been excavated on the canal, the press office of Astrakhan Region Governor… Read More
The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and the city of Clarksville celebrated the completion of the Riverside Drive Stream Bank Stabilization Project during a ceremony at Freedom Point in Liberty Park. Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, Nashville District commander, Corps employees, Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillian, city officials, and representatives from the project contractor,… Read More
A project to deepen the Intracoastal Waterway through Fort Lauderdale began Wednesday, in an effort to accommodate the floating mansions called megayachts. These sleek craft boast helipads, elevators, saunas, wine cellars, pools, gyms and luxurious staterooms. But beyond serving as deluxe transportation for the wealthy, they form an important part of the region’s marine economy,… Read More
Dredging has begun on a stretch of the River Parrett at cost of £2.1m to prevent future flooding on the Somerset Levels. In October, Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) approved the funding for the work downstream of Northmoor and the M5. SRA chairman John Osman, said: “It is that little more expensive to do that section… Read More
New Zealand Refining hopes to apply for resource consents by the end of this year for dredging Whangarei Harbour, expected to cost between $30 million and $45 million, to allow heavier loads on tankers bringing crude oil to the refinery. At today’s annual general meeting, chief executive Sjoerd Post said consent application readiness for dredging… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a new review of its recently completed $1 billion cleanup of PCBs in the upper Hudson River. The EPA will hold the first workshop in a legally mandated review at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Saratoga Spa State Park administration building. It will be the first of a… Read More
The much anticipated beach renourishment project for the sand starved north and south ends of Longboat Key has been delayed. Last week, Norfolk Dredging Company won the bid from the town to dredge Longboat and New Pass and spread about 500,000 cubic yards on the south end of the Key first, and then the north… Read More
Voters at town meeting Monday night almost unanimously approved borrowing $7 million to replace all floating docks, most supporting pilings and the electrical, fire-suppression and other aging infrastructure at the Saquatucket Harbor marina. “It’s an important contributor to the economic vitality of our community,” Peter Hughes, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, told the audience…. Read More
The Storm Lake LIC approved the new contract between themselves and the Iowa DNR, in which the DNR gives the LIC $850,000 (90% of the cost) for the dredging project through December of 2018 on the condition the LIC matches 10%. The LIC has about $47,000 on hand, but needs a total of $94,5000 to… Read More
Barring some late — and unforeseen — issues, dredging should begin this week at the John Redmond Reservoir. This is the formal start of a massive project to remove some three million cubic yards of dirt and rebuild some of the storage capacity after months of on-site preparation and years of planning. Eugene Goff of… Read More
Dredging of the Port Pirie River will soon commence, as part of a multi million dollar upgrade to the foreshore. Local council has been conducting site checks with contractor Maritime Constructions in preparation for dredging the riverbed near the boat ramp. Plans for the $2 million upgrade include a new rock wall and another boat… Read More