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The Water Resources, Works and Housing Ministry has started the dredging of the Densu River to improve water supply to Nsawam and its environs. Residents there have been struggling to access water for weeks now due to an acute water shortage. Prices of Water in Nsawam Adoagyiri have shot up by over 500 percent in… Read More
Contractor Haas Sons of Thorp began carving sediment this week out of the east side of Lake Altoona. The company had the low bid of $836,000 to win a contract from the Lake Altoona Lake District to remove about 186,000 cubic yards from the lake bottom. Dredging had been done in previous years during warmer… Read More
The Port of Ilwaco will receive a new year of vital maintenance work on the channel that links it with the mouth of the Columbia River, port officials learned last week. An expenditure of $1.4 million for channel maintenance in Ilwaco was approved for 2016. Routine dredging of the port’s access channel is needed to… Read More
Centuries ago, China built its Great Wall to protect its borders from invaders. Ocean City is building its own great wall of sorts — a long, sandy barrier designed to protect the island community from the ravages of storm-tossed seas. A flurry of activity is expected to begin in March on a beach replenishment project… Read More
It could cost as much as $2.7 million to remove sediment and debris backing up behind the Riverside Park dam in Findlay, according to an engineer’s study of the problem. In June last year, Hancock County and the City of Findlay split a $15,000 bill to hire Hull & Associates, Dublin, to study the problem…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to secure nearly $2.5 million in federal funding for repairs to marine barriers at the Westport Marina and Point Chehalis near Westport. The funding was announced in a presentation by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Branch Chief Jessica Winkler at the Port of Grays Harbor Commission’s… Read More
The work on deepening the Port of Grays Harbor’s navigation channel has secured federal funding and is expected to begin sometime this fall, officials said at the Port’s Tuesday meeting. Federal funding will provide $15 million for the project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Branch Chief Jessica Winkler told Port officials. The Port… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is providing $7 million for construction of the Rio Grande Floodway project near Socorro, $1 million for watershed assessment in the Rio Grande Basin, and $200,000 to fund the Rio Grande Environmental Management Program for the first time. These projects will prevent flooding between San Acacia and the Bosque… Read More
IFA presidential candidate Henry Burns has promised that farmers will dredge rivers this summer if action not taken by government agencies. Speaking in Westmeath on Friday night, Burns said that if local authorities and the OPW don’t start cleaning waterways by midsummer, as IFA President he will put in place a project to support farmers… Read More
More improvements are planned for the Sarnia Harbour in the coming months. City officials are gearing up for a $2-million dredging project in an effort to ensure water depths remain adequate for commercial shipping traffic accessing the harbour for berthage, repairs and cargo transfers. Environmental studies have indicated 25,000 cubic feet of silt will need… Read More
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Monterey Harbor is doing its part to help coastal erosion with its dredging and beach nourishment project. The city has a 10-year permit with from the Corps of Engineers allowing them to dredge the marina, removing built up silt and use the silt on Monterey beaches, which are desperately in need of sand. “It’s become… Read More
Beginning on Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be conducting an emergency dredging on the Ocean City inlet because of reduced sea levels. Due to the major winter storm which hit Delmarva back in January, areas of the inlet have been affected so badly, that some of the larger commercial fishing vessels cant… Read More
One sign of the dredging of Old Mission Dam in Mission Trails Regional Park is an approximately 435-cubic-yard mound of sediment in a Santee parking lot. Dredging started February 17, and the City of San Diego’s $324,121 contract calls for Miramar General Engineering to remove 870 cubic yards of sediment, according to a March 1… Read More