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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is holding a public hearing on a contentious $35 million passenger cruise terminal first proposed for the Charleston waterfront almost six years ago. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday as the agency reviews an application by the South Carolina Ports Authority to renovate an old warehouse on the Cooper… Read More
A project to restore critically eroded sections of Navarre Beach by pumping in tons of sand from the Gulf of Mexico should begin any day. Dredging will start as soon as workers from Weeks Marine Inc. stage equipment near the beach, set sections of pipe and make other preparations, Brandi Whitehurst, a spokeswoman for Santa Rosa… Read More
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Moray Council’s new £2.5million dredger has gone to sea for the first time and taken up a berth in the region’s biggest harbour. The 250-tonne vessel was edged gradually from Buckie’s Macduff Shipyard construction shed to the bottom of the harbour slipway in a painstaking two-hour operation yesterday. It was moved on 20 sets of… Read More
Dredging rivers is not a simple answer to solve Cumbria’s flooding problems, the county’s top Environment Agency representative has warned. Keith Ashcroft, area manager for Cumbria and Lancashire, said dredging was often put forward as a solution but it was a “complicated” issue. But he said the alternative of building “higher and higher” defence walls… Read More
An unprecedented regional partnership to dredge several neglected river channels connecting to San Pablo Bay is now taking shape, offering new hope for removing the accumulating mud that increasingly chokes the Petaluma River. With Petaluma as the lead agency, the collaborative spanning Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Solano counties would bundle a number of dredging efforts… Read More
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMEX) was informed that the recent decision by the Mexican Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) regarding the “Don Diego” dredging and phosphate sand extraction project resulted in a denial of the application for an environmental license as presented. “While the denial was obviously a very disappointing outcome, after… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed emergency maintenance dredging for the Cohasset Harbor Channel. Without it, the commercial fishing fleet will be unable to get in and out of the harbor at low tide, crippling these local businesses for yet another season. The channel was, of course, supposed to be cleared as part… Read More
At the core of Port Otago’s “Next Generation” programme is its dredging activities, the company having been granted resource consent to deepen and widen the shipping channel in the lower harbour and dispose of the soil at sea. The approval was subject to wide-ranging conditions, involving ongoing monitoring and research into the effects of the… Read More
High water several weeks ago reversed the flow of the Black River Canal, letting water rush into Lake Huron and raising hopes that it might scour out the sand bar at the head of the canal. “When it was reverse flow, it was like rapids out in the lake,” said James Freed, Port Huron city… Read More
The city plans to correct the Animas River’s flow upstream of the Durango Whitewater Park near Santa Rita Park to ensure the river continues to flow by the city intake pumps. The Animas River is shifting away from city intake pumps near Santa Rita Park, so the city is planning to build rock weirs to safeguard… Read More
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted a public meeting at the Moose Lodge in Hillsboro on Thursday, April 7, reporting that ground clean-up work at the Eagle Zinc site should begin this summer. According to project manager Timothy Drexler of the EPA, design work should be finished in May and actual ground work… Read More
THE long-awaited Bandon Flood Relief Scheme has got the green light from Acting Minister Brendan Howlin. The Acting Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced on Tuesday that he has considered the report of the consultants appointed to review the Environmental Impact Statement and is now in a position to confirm the Scheme. The Order… Read More
Dredging Clam Pass became a top priority Tuesday night when it was added to the Naples City Council agenda at the last minute. On Wednesday, the council approved a right-of-way permit application submitted by the Pelican Bay Services Division to allow their contractor, Energy Resources, Inc., access and egress at Horizon Way Beach on Gulf… Read More