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The federal Army Corps of Engineers late this week is expected to begin an emergency dredging of the Ocean City Inlet that shoaled in even further during Winter Storm Jonas in late January although a long-term solution has not yet been reached. An already challenging shoaling problem in the Inlet was exacerbated during Winter Storm… Read More
The Board of Commissioners of Public Lands Tuesday approved a State Trust Fund Loan totaling $1.48 million to the Lake Altoona Protection and Rehabilitation District to finance a dredging project. Contractor Haas Sons of Thorp began dredging the east side of Lake Altoona in mid-February. Since 1871, the BCPL has made loans to municipalities and… Read More
After years of waiting, it has been finally confirmed that remedial works on the Bandon River finally began last week. Councillors met with Council chief executive Tim Lucey, county engineer David Keane and West Cork divisional manager Clodagh Henahan recently, where plans for the interim works were outlined. The Council will be putting down 15… Read More
Dredging the city’s back bays may not be that far off, as the state is considering allowing Margate to place dredged material in a 57-foot-deep hole near Wellington Avenue in Atlantic City. According to city attorney J. Scott Abbott, Margate officials plan to meet with representatives from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and… Read More
The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District is holding an informational meeting on Wednesday, March 2 to discuss its dredging plan for the channels in King Salmon. The district decided in a January meeting that it would dredge the King Salmon main channel, and said in a report, “dredging activities for the King Salmon… Read More
The Port of Everett wants to dig contaminated sediments out of Port Gardner Bay to help further develop one of the West Coast’s busiest deep-water seaports. The work would improve the local environment, Puget Sound and navigational access to the port’s Pacific Terminal. The Washington Department of Ecology is seeking comments through March 30, on… Read More
Tayport Harbour in Fife, Scotland has recently been dredged by Van Oord, one of the largest dredging companies in the world. The entrance channel is now 0.8m below chart datum and the harbour is now 0.6m below chart datum. This means most boats will be able to enter and exit the Tayport Harbour on all… Read More
A meeting for businesses interested in dredging Charleston Harbor to a 52-foot depth attracted 13 companies to the Army Corps of Engineers offices on Tuesday, as the process for picking a finalist for the $509 million project moves into its initial stages. The meeting, which was closed to the public, included an hour-long overview of… Read More
Dredging along the Genesee River is scheduled to get underway this spring. The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to award the contract for the project next week. The Rover, including the Port of Rochester, was last dredged in 2014 when 200,000 cubic yards of debris and sand were removed from the water. Senator Chuck… Read More
A $5.35 million maintenance dredging project at the Riviera Beach-based Port of Palm Beach’s entrance channel in the Lake Worth Inlet is expected to start early next week and continue through mid-April. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, spokeswoman Susan Jackson said approximately 200,000 cubic yards of shoal material will be removed from Palm… Read More
WORK has begun at a third dredging location in the River Kent in Kendal. Gravel removal from Romney Road, opposite Lound Road garage, began on Tuesday. The Environment Agency began dredging the River Kent at Mintsfeet Gravel trap on February 11 following a survey into the gravel which showed ‘trigger levels’ used to assess flood… Read More
Maintenance dredging in the Thunder Bay River helps commercial boating, and the federal government has given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $850,000 to dredge the Alpena harbor this year. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Rosmorport is going to dredge 23.8 mln cbm of material in 2016. According to IAA PortNews correspondent, this has been announced today by Andrei Lavrishchev, Executive Director of FSUE Rosmorport, at the 3rd International Forum of Dredging Companies organized by Media-Group PortNews. According to him, the scope of dredging works for construction of new facilities… Read More
After months of Mother Nature refusing to cooperate, Weeks Marine and Santa Rosa Island Authority agreed to postpone renourishment of Pensacola Beach until mid-June through a change order to the project contract. Paolo Ghio, Island Authority interim executive director, said Weeks Marine will replenish Navarre Beach first and then use the same equipment to pump… Read More
After about eight months of lobbying from Bellport Village, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works has agreed to dredge around the docks at Ho-Hum Beach on Fire Island. “It’s shallow, and we want to make it a little deeper, that’s the main thing,” said Bellport Village Mayor Ray Fell. Fell said there aren’t any… Read More