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City leaders in Rockaway Beach are hoping to get some help from the federal government to clean up the town and boost its economy. Rockaway Beach Mayor Don Smith called a meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers and Empire Electric (the company that owns the lake) to talk about what can be done to… Read More
The Port of Hueneme will be deepened from its current 35 feet to 40 feet under a deal approved this week, a move expected to bring in more than 200,000 tons of additional cargo each year. The $8 million deepening project will bring 563 new jobs — directly and indirectly — to Ventura County and… Read More
Dredging of the canal and distributary network of the Karanja Major Irrigation Project has been taken up to ensure that the water reaches the tail-end farmers without hurdles. Jagannath Halangi, Chief Engineer of the Kalaburagi Irrigation Zone, told The Hindu on Tuesday that the work on dredging of the main canals on the right and… Read More
Dredging work continues along the Cooper River, with Camden County officials insisting the project will be complete in time for spring rowing events. The dredging operation began last August, and ran into some problems that doubled the cost and dragged things out a bit. But Camden County Freeholder Jeffrey Nash says crew teams need not… Read More
Gator Dredging, based in Clearwater, plans to begin dredging Turkey Creek sometime around Feb. 15 or Feb. 16, county officials said. The company will remove about 230,000 cubic yards of muck sediment from Turkey Creek between the railroad bridge and the Indian River Lagoon. The $7.2 million project is funded by the Florida Department of… Read More
The Ghana Water Company Limited is taking steps to dredge the bed of the Densu River to increase the volume or impoundment to check the low flows associated with the dry season. Mr Samuel Yaw Adusei, Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, who made the announcement in Accra, said the siltation of the… Read More
The dredging of the Menemsha channel isn’t the first Army Corps of Engineers project in the region to suffer from delays and complications since the federal government approved more than $50 billion in recovery aid after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. More than $5 billion went to the Army Corps, which manages many of the channels,… Read More
With any luck, boaters should soon be able to again navigate in and out of the Ventura Harbor without needing an escort. Exactly when that will happen, however, is unclear — maybe within a week. “Let’s just say we hope it happens soon, very soon,” Richard Parsons, dredging program manager for the Ventura Port District,… Read More
Dredging will start in mid-May to deepen the access channel to the port of Maputo, to allow ships of up to 80,000 tonnes to enter the port, according to the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), which holds the lease on the port. The channel will be dredged from the current depth of 11 metres to… Read More
Public Works Director Juan Florensa said state regulators have had their turtle fears abated after causing delay to the pending and intensive beach renourishment project. Last week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and state agencies were worried that the town’s plan to dredge both the passes on both the south and north ends… Read More
The America’s Cup village site will be handed over to the AC Event Authority five months ahead of schedule, MPs heard this morning. The infill in Dockyard’s South Basin has taken in 310,000 cubic yards of material in the last few months, Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Economic Development, told the House of Assembly. Dr… Read More
A years-long effort to bring the Delaware River shipping channel into the modern era is nearing its last phase. The Army Corps has been working since 2010 to dredge the channel from 40 down to 45 feet deep. That’s the new standard for a port to handle the huge ships that’ll transit the newly expanded… Read More
Due to the needs and requirements of the commercial activity in Puerto Chiapas during 2015, the administrative started actions to maintain the areas of navigation, obtaining a resource aproval to start this January 2016 the dredging maintenance works of the navigation channel of Puerto Chiapas in order to increase the depth and maintain the required… Read More
Freeway, a trailing suction hopper dredger is working on removing silt from the shipping channel on Waterford Estuary between Belview Port and out to sea, writes Jehan Ashmore. The Dutch flagged vessel with a dredging spoil capacity of 4,500m3 began duties last week on what in total will be a continuous 14-day dredging operation. Dumping… Read More
Los Angeles city, port and federal officials are exploring short-term and long-term fixes for serious sand erosion at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro. The outer beach looks starkly different since strong El Niño waves washed away much of its sand, leading to fears about potential flooding at the historic Cabrillo Beach Bathhouse. Los Angeles City… Read More