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A weather forecast that calls for a few days of relatively calm water in the Gulf of Mexico is probably unfathomable for the Weeks Marine staff. The dredging company hired to renourish Pensacola Beach is still in the process of completing the pipeline to dredge sand from the same 137-acre borrow area as the 2002-03… Read More
Port Otago has stopped using its offshore spoil dumping site – 6km off Taiaroa Head – after realising it had not completed one of several baseline studies, as required under its resource consent. The port company is just weeks away from reaching its target depth of 13.5m in deepening its shipping channel, which runs for… Read More
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Highway Division (MassDOT) is seeking approval from the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge an area of Cohasset Narrows in Buzzards Bay. The dredging would take place adjacent to the recently reconstructed William H. Dalton Memorial Bridge, near the Bourne-Wareham town line. In a statement, MassDOT officials explained they would… Read More
This week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start flood-proofing sections of the L.A. River by clearing vegetation to improve water flow and lining some of its banks with what’s known as a HESCO Bastion barrier. You may have never heard of the HESCO barrier, but it is a go-to flood control method for… Read More
Dredging on the Goodwin Sands would impact wildlife and endanger eco-systems, conservationists have said. The Port of Dover plans to remove up to 3m cubic yards (2.5m cubic metres) of sand and gravel. The area being explored in the recommended Marine Conservation zone covers an areas of 4.5 square miles about eight miles (12km) from… Read More
A dredging project on the South River is helping bolster Marshfield’s shoreline. In the final weeks of 2015, sand was sucked out of a shallow section of the South River and poured onto Rexhame Beach as a long-planned dredging project presented an opportunity for beach nourishment. The project will leave a stretch of the public… Read More
Crews from the Baltimore District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start work this month on a $25.6 million project to maintain shipping lanes in Baltimore Harbor and its bay channels, according to a news release. Some of the dredged material will be sent to an Anne Arundel County facility. Workers will begin dredging… Read More
Santa Rosa County’s Tourist Development Council is hoping to postpone a nearly $15 million restoration of Navarre Beach set to begin this spring, citing potentially detrimental impacts to the area’s tourism season. Though the County Commission approved the contract with Weeks Marine Inc. for the project, set to begin in March and finish by June,… Read More
The Pier 4 Project at Hilo Harbor was celebrated with a groundbreaking and dedication/blessing ceremony Friday morning. Friday’s ceremony celebrates the final phase of the project, the Pier 4 Inter-Island Cargo Terminal. Involved in the project is the creation of a 602-linear foot reinforced concrete pier with associated site work located west of the existing… Read More
Armed with $3.1 million in federal funds, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will install three miles of temporary barriers along a stretch of the Los Angeles River near Griffith Park to ensure it won’t overflow during El Niño storms, officials announced Jan. 8. The local district of the Corps of Engineers will also begin… Read More
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Having earned public goodwill after giving a makeover to the Perumpallam Odai, Erodai, a social organisation working for environmental remediation in the district, has started dredging the Pitchakaranpallam Odai and Sunnambu Odai. Close to 10,000 tonnes of garbage have been dredged out of the Perumpallam Odai that have habitations on two sides, and a little… Read More