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As business owners and residents wait for Buckeye Lake to reach a depth closer to its summer normal, dredges are removing silt to help boats navigate. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources traditionally removes lake-bottom muck annually with one dredge. This year, however, three state dredges are plying lake channels under a more aggressive schedule…. Read More
Dredging at the Platte River’s mouth on the Lake Michigan shoreline is scheduled to resume this fall following a three-year hiatus. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will facilitate the dredging if a permit is approved by the Department of Environmental Quality and other organizations. The effort to cut a deeper channel where the river… Read More
Friends of Ramsyer Sites, an environmental Non Governmental Organisation, has appealed to government to dredge the Sakomo Lagoon to increase it capacity to take most of the flood water in the Tema Metropolis. Mr Richard Agorkpa, Executive Director, told the Ghana News Agency that the Lagoon is a natural flood water receptacle designed to take,store… Read More
A few days after Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee complained about the lack of dredging drying up the ports of the state, it came to the fore that the Narendra Modi-government has slashed the dredging subsidy for the Calcutta Port Trust (CPT) to a new low in recent years. The CPT is expected to get… Read More
Pressure the feds to speed up muck-dredging permits. Consider using local property taxes for dredging. Pursue incentives and state money to hook homes on septic tanks to sewer systems. And enforce rainy-season fertilizer bans and rules regarding erosion control and pollution discharges. Those were among the ideas that Indian River Lagoon region government officials proposed… Read More
The Sarawak River will be a super highway for ships once dredging works are totally completed by 2019. The project costing RM360mil under the 11th Malaysia Plan was announced by Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai in February this year when he visited the Senari terminal here. The Kuching Port Authority general manager Rosli… Read More
Earlier this year, the town of Longboat Key picked Norfolk Dredging Co. to mine Longboat Pass and New Pass for more than 400,000 cubic yards of sand for the island at a cost of $6.5 million. Ferreira Construction Southern Division Co. Inc. formally challenged the choice, as it had submitted a $5.7 million bid for… Read More
In the port of Antwerp the Lock of Kieldrecht has been officially opened for commercial shipping by His Majesty the King of Belgium. In front of the Port Company and the Maritime Access Department, His Majesty the King of Belgium pressed the button at 10h20 sharp thus opening the lock gates for the first vessel… Read More
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The Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host an informational meeting about maintenance dredging of the Napa River that is scheduled to begin in late summer and last through November. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, at the Napa Valley Yacht… Read More
Dredging for the Navarre Beach nourishment project came to a halt Monday night, June 6 as Tropical Storm Colin caused rough waters out in the Gulf of Mexico. The project’s two dredges had to stop work and seek shelter in Pensacola Bay. On shore, the storm has caused some flooding on the lower beach berm…. Read More
The Environmental Audit Committee publishes report finding that the Government is failing to protect communities at risk of flooding. The Committee warns that a reactive approach to funding for flood defence exposes the Government’s lack of long-term strategic planning to manage flood risk. The Committee found that funding fluctuates year-on-year. During the last Parliament funding… Read More
More than 30 years after the first piles of muck dredged from Baltimore’s harbor were used to create an island at the mouth of the Back River, state officials are opening 300 acres of Hart-Miller Island to public access. Starting Friday, visitors to the island near Essex can ride bikes or hike along trails to… Read More
The Superfund Phase II pilot project, aimed at demonstrating the practicality of using a wet-dredge method of removing contaminants from the nearshore lake bottom near the site of an old manufactured gas plant is on time and working well, says Xcel Energy’s Construction Manager Thomas E. Perry. The Superfund project is intended to clean up… Read More
Yesterday’s release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Superfund cleanup plan sparked plenty of reaction from local parties U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, for example encouraged residents and businesses to weigh in during the 60-day comment period. Wyden, like many, wants the work done “as quickly and efficiently as possible. I have long… Read More