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The city is demanding the state and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halt plans to clear part of its island for future dumping of Delaware River dredge spoils. City officials issued Thursday a cease-and-desist letter compelling the state and the Army Corps to hold off on the project. Burlington City Mayor Barry Conaway said he… Read More
The methodology changes allowing Bay of Plenty Regional Council to use a cutter suction dredge and pipeline to remove sediment directly from Kopeopeo Canal to goebags in containment sites has been given the green light with the consent variation approved earlier this month. The original consent granted in November 2014, allowed the project to take… Read More
The Lake Wichita Revitalization Project will soon be one step closer to becoming a reality after Friday. The Lake Wichita Revitalization Committee will hand deliver a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit to the US Army Corps of Engineers in Tulsa. While the lake itself is owned by the city of Wichita Falls the US… Read More
Barnstable County has placed an order for a second dredge to be used in keeping local harbor channels open for boaters. But the county is also beginning to discuss extending dredging activities into freshwater, including rivers and streams leading to headwaters. “My main goal is to clean up estuary passages because they are not flushing… Read More
The ‘Save Ennore Creek’ campaign seems to have yielded some result, with the government responding positively. The Tiruvallur district administration has ordered thermal power stations and industries in Ennore to dredge the silt-filled Buckingham Canal. This directive comes at an important time just ahead of the Northeast monsoon and will ensure the smooth flow of… Read More
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority announced its plans to issue a Request for Proposal for qualified firms interested in conducting an Environmental Impact Statement on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion will be the first major controlled sediment diversion reconnecting the Mississippi River with its delta. It is a cornerstone of Louisiana’s… Read More
The scope of dredging at the seaports of Ukraine performed from the beginning of the year exceeded 4 mln cbm, says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA). Dredging works have been completed at the inner harbor of Mariupol port (505,000 cbm of dredged material). Maintenance dredging at the approach channel to the Coal… Read More
It takes 14 hours to pull a dredge from Longboat Key to Tampa Bay. The crew from Norfolk Dredging Co. of Chesapeake, Va., would know. It’s had to do it twice in five weeks. Hurricane Hermine first drove the dredge out of New Pass off Longboat Key to Tampa in early September. Knowing Hurricane Matthew’s… Read More
Grant money being doled out to encourage householders to flood-proof their homes would be better spent on river dredging. That’s the view of John Kelsall, of Carlisle Flood Action Group, who says the headline-grabbing £5,000 grant to fund flood-prevention measures is not appropriate for the major floods that have hit the city. “Maintenance of our… Read More
Trucks will start hauling sand to five county beaches Nov. 1 after Collier County commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved a $2.5 million beach renourishment deal. The county hired Earth Tech Enterprises Inc. to transport, place and grade a total of about 135,000 tons of sand to the beaches of South Marco Island, Vanderbilt, Park Shore, Pelican… Read More
Harbours in West Nova will receive millions in federal funding for wharfs, breakwaters, and dredging, Member of Parliament Colin Fraser said Tuesday, Oct. 11 from the wharf at Parker’s Cove. Fishermen were busy stacking lobster traps on the wharf for Thursday’s season opening as Fraser announced $5.7 million this year for work at Camp Cove,… Read More
What Happened: Port Hueneme City Council received and filed a report from staff regarding an update on the dredging and sand replenishment project at Hueneme Beach. Two projects are currently underway at Channel Islands Harbor: a channel deepening project and an improvement project to berths and wharfs in the harbor. Dredging of the Federal Channel… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is moving forward with replenishing Rehoboth Beach and targeting a late November start date. “It’s coming. It’s just a matter of when,” Mayor Sam Cooper said. The corps will be using a new borrow site for the sand, a site about three miles off Delaware Seashore State Park. In… Read More
Work has started here to dredge the Bocaue River for the next six months to reduce flooding in Bulacan towns lying on natural catch basins of a major Central Luzon river system. The project to clean the Bocaue River was launched on Saturday by Sen. Joel Villanueva, who lives in this town. The silted Meycauayan-Marilao-Obando… Read More
SUNWATER said dredging the Chinchilla Weir would be a costly and time consuming exercise that would disrupt the supply of water. Many people have argued that SunWater, manager of the Chinchilla Weir, should have dredged the weir while it was dry to boost capacity. A spokesperson for SunWater acknowledged that while Chinchilla Weir was a… Read More