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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Monday the completion of a $28 million resiliency project to restore Coney Island’s beaches, prevent erosion and protect communities from future storm surges. The Sea Gate Reach. the last stage of the two-decade Coney Island Shore Protection Project, involved placing almost 70,000 cubic feet of sand in Sea… Read More
Pieces of the “Twin Lakes” dredge will start arriving at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor atop 18 or more big rigs traveling from Louisiana this week, Local harbor traffic and parking are expected to be impacted intermittently for the next several weeks as the large pieces of the custom-built sand-digging equipment are reassembled by… Read More
American regulators have made public a long-awaited proposal to dredge contaminants from the Lower Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Known as the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a USD750 million dredge and capping scheme in which roughly 1.45 million m3 (1.9 million cubic yards) of material would be… Read More
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As business owners and residents wait for Buckeye Lake to reach a depth closer to its summer normal, dredges are removing silt to help boats navigate. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources traditionally removes lake-bottom muck annually with one dredge. This year, however, three state dredges are plying lake channels under a more aggressive schedule…. Read More
Dredging at the Platte River’s mouth on the Lake Michigan shoreline is scheduled to resume this fall following a three-year hiatus. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will facilitate the dredging if a permit is approved by the Department of Environmental Quality and other organizations. The effort to cut a deeper channel where the river… Read More
Friends of Ramsyer Sites, an environmental Non Governmental Organisation, has appealed to government to dredge the Sakomo Lagoon to increase it capacity to take most of the flood water in the Tema Metropolis. Mr Richard Agorkpa, Executive Director, told the Ghana News Agency that the Lagoon is a natural flood water receptacle designed to take,store… Read More
A few days after Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee complained about the lack of dredging drying up the ports of the state, it came to the fore that the Narendra Modi-government has slashed the dredging subsidy for the Calcutta Port Trust (CPT) to a new low in recent years. The CPT is expected to get… Read More
Pressure the feds to speed up muck-dredging permits. Consider using local property taxes for dredging. Pursue incentives and state money to hook homes on septic tanks to sewer systems. And enforce rainy-season fertilizer bans and rules regarding erosion control and pollution discharges. Those were among the ideas that Indian River Lagoon region government officials proposed… Read More
The Sarawak River will be a super highway for ships once dredging works are totally completed by 2019. The project costing RM360mil under the 11th Malaysia Plan was announced by Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai in February this year when he visited the Senari terminal here. The Kuching Port Authority general manager Rosli… Read More
Earlier this year, the town of Longboat Key picked Norfolk Dredging Co. to mine Longboat Pass and New Pass for more than 400,000 cubic yards of sand for the island at a cost of $6.5 million. Ferreira Construction Southern Division Co. Inc. formally challenged the choice, as it had submitted a $5.7 million bid for… Read More
In the port of Antwerp the Lock of Kieldrecht has been officially opened for commercial shipping by His Majesty the King of Belgium. In front of the Port Company and the Maritime Access Department, His Majesty the King of Belgium pressed the button at 10h20 sharp thus opening the lock gates for the first vessel… Read More
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The Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host an informational meeting about maintenance dredging of the Napa River that is scheduled to begin in late summer and last through November. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, at the Napa Valley Yacht… Read More
Dredging for the Navarre Beach nourishment project came to a halt Monday night, June 6 as Tropical Storm Colin caused rough waters out in the Gulf of Mexico. The project’s two dredges had to stop work and seek shelter in Pensacola Bay. On shore, the storm has caused some flooding on the lower beach berm…. Read More