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Three terminals cum Jetties would be established in Tripura to implement the ambitious inland waterway project linking Gomati river with the Meghna river in Bangladesh. The three Jetties having port like facilities would come up three separate places- Maharani Barrage, Udaipur and Sonamura as per the DPR prepared by RITES. As per the DPR, the… Read More
The Christie Administration announced the completion of the third in a series of pilot projects designed to gauge the effectiveness of beneficially reusing silt and sand dredged for navigation improvement projects to restore degraded salt marshes as protective buffers against severe storms, while enhancing habitat for wildlife. The latest project restored 10 acres of degraded… Read More
Ocean City’s lagoons are choked with 1 million cubic yards of muddy silt – the equivalent of 15 football stadiums filled with muck and mire. Hoping to finally clean out this messy, soup-like material, the city will embark on a full-scale dredging program that promises to unclog the shallow lagoons and harbors along the back… Read More
Presque Isle State Park will experience some bay dredging work this summer. During a Presque Isle Advisory Committee meeting, committee member Jerry Covert discussed the plan for the Corps of Engineers to dredge the bay this summer. The process is expected to begin any time this summer, starting as soon as June 6th. The park… Read More
One of the largest flood defence schemes ever constructed in the South East has been opened officially. The £30 million Broomhill Sands project is designed to protect homes lying in flood risk areas between Camber Sands and Jury’s Gap. According to the Environment Agency, the completed project will reduce the flood risk for 14,500 homes,… Read More
The Port of Astoria Commission voted Tuesday to focus on developing North Tongue Point, improving dredging, expelling sea lions from the East End Mooring Basin and repairing its docks, fixing crumbling piers and further improving the agency’s finances as priorities for the coming fiscal year and beyond. Commissioners provided several priorities they felt the agency… Read More
Around 50 laden cargo vessels heading towards the northern region have been stranded near Paturia and Daulatdia ferry ghats for the last couple of days due to poor navigability in the Jamuna river. It is feared the current Boro cultivation in 16 northern districts might be disrupted as the cargo vessels ferry, among other goods,… Read More
Windhoek — The dredging of the Zambezi River that started in 2014 to deepen the river to allow for smooth sailing of a new ferry has stopped, as the newly commissioned multi-million-dollar dredger has since broken down. The dredger, that cost government nearly N$8 million, was commissioned in 2014 and was due to start dredging… Read More
The Port of Dover has fired the starting gun on its major Western Docks regeneration, with its first civils package worth £135m. The winning contractor will build two new berths, a new marina, a navigation channel with bridge and lock gates, as well as associated dredging and reclamation. The contractor will have to demonstrate experience… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has obtained all of North Beach’s easements for beach replenishment, which means the project will move forward in Surf City in mid-June, weather permitting, borough Councilman Peter Hartney announced at the Surf City Council’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 11. The town’s beaches were partially replenished during the original… Read More
A new contract will be issued, and the Coast Guard is expected to press J-Way to remove its dredge and pipe from the channel or face fines. With the start of the busy summer boating season on Martha’s Vineyard just around the corner, and dredging equipment still afloat in the narrow, sand-clogged Menemsha channel, the… Read More
Two Rivers City Council awarded a contract for dredging the outer harbor (between the piers and out into Lake Michigan) to Roen Salvage Co. of Sturgeon Bay at its May 16 meeting. Roen’s low bid for dredging 22,500 cubic yards of material and trucking it to the city’s disposal site west of town was $663,900…. Read More
Government auditors have recommended there could be a criminal investigation into fraud allegations about dredging at the Port of Ramsgate. The allegations concern funding the council received from the EU for a joint project between Ramsgate and Oostende port in Belgium to improve the capacity by dredging Ramsgate and building a new berth at Oostende…. Read More
Dredging underway at an east-central Kansas reservoir is being touted as important in ensuring that area’s water supply to customers who include a nuclear power plant. Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday directed the dredging of the John Redmond Reservoir near Burlington to begin. He calls it a significant step in preserving the water resource for… Read More
The Chairman Designate of Cowes Harbour Commission, David Riley, extends an invitation to all harbour users to attend a ‘Public Presentation & Review of the Cowes Outer Harbour Project’ on Thursday, 19th May at 1900 at the Island Sailing Club in Cowes. Cowes Harbour Commission (CHC) undertook a review of the Cowes Breakwater Project in… Read More