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A contract of over $37 million for phase one of the Long Beach Dune Project was recently awarded, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice announced recently. The contract, totaling $37,595,900, was awarded to H&L Contracting for groin rehabilitation and construction of new groins between East Rockaway and Jones Inlet for a… Read More
A single signature is holding up a long-delayed $2.3 billion plan to repair three dilapidated locks and dams on the Ohio River. The Upper Ohio River Navigation project — in which new 600-by-110-foot locks would be built at the Emsworth, Dashields and Montgomery locks and dams — must be approved by top Army Corps of… Read More
The state can seize parts of oceanfront land for a beach replenishment project in Ocean County, a judge has ruled. Superior Court Assignment Judge Marlene Lynch Ford ruled against 28 oceanfront property owners who had asked the judge to block the state Department of Environmental Protection’s attempts to acquire a portion of their land to… Read More
TRINITY Inlet has been dredged this week as part of a secret Federal Government plan to berth nuclear submarines near the Cairns CBD. Two “mega dredges” have been operating throughout the week under the cover of darkness to move 200 million cubic metres of sand. Under little-known Australian military laws, the Federal Government has overridden… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week that it will begin surveying the Houston Ship Channel for the next round of dredging. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Collier County will be closing Clam Pass Park and the public beach south of Clam Pass starting Monday, April 4, to Friday, April 8, so that workers from Energy Resources may start the emergency dredging project in the Clam Bay Natural Resource Protection Area. The closing is necessary for safety reasons, as there will be… Read More
Dredging of the Cooper River continued Thursday right up to the deadline, but Camden County officials are not saying whether the job is finished. A dredge ban begins Friday to accommodate fish spawning season through June 30. “The dredge will be out of the water April 1,” Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen promised. READ FULL… Read More
Pensacola Beach, Fla. (WEAR) Construction of the renourishment of 8.1 miles of the Gulf of Mexico beaches at Pensacola Beach, Fla., has been delayed until late June to early July. Weather and mechanical issues prevented the project Contractor, Weeks Marine, Inc., of Covington, La., from completing the submerged pipeline from the beach to the borrow… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed that dredging will begin early next week at the Lake Worth Inlet. The material that’s dredged will be deposited south of the southern jetty and will extend the beach about 60 feet, according to the Army Corps. The maintenance, including sand placement, is 100 percent federally funded,… Read More
Dorrill and others in Collier County government received word from Corps officials that a permit to dredge Clam Pass should be issued within a couple of weeks. Dredging the pass, which is filling with sand, is key to letting water flush in and out of the Clam Bay system, helping to restore the saltwater-freshwater balance… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given word that a proposal to create islands and conduct dredging at the head of Lake Pepin has been selected for a federally funded review. Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance President Mike McKay called the news “an important milestone,” adding the non-profit conservation group has been exploring the project… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking to begin dredging the channel by the end of the first week of March, said spokesman Chris Gardner. The project was already in the works, but the schedule was moved up to help improve navigation in the wake of the winter storm. “We’ve heard from folks and… Read More
In order to aid waterway transport, sand-dredging – largely banned since a 2011 decree – will soon begin reappearing at dozens of locations along the Tonle Bassac river, a spokesman from the Ministry of Mines and Energy confirmed yesterday. According to Meng Saktheara, at the behest of local authorities and the Ministry of Public Works… Read More
The Army Corp of Engineers and the Santa Barbara Waterfront Department have launched the spring harbor dredging more than a month early. Sand from winter swells and stormy seas has started to fill the entrance faster than anticipated. The path for boats is very limited under normal conditions and worse at a negative tide. A… Read More
The city’s ongoing efforts to clear the sediment choking its back bay and lagoons hit another roadblock when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ordered a stoppage in work late last month on the city’s spoils site near the 34th Street bridge. Army Corps spokesman Richard Pearsall said the contractor constructed an earthen pier to… Read More