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A large bulldozer rolled past, just a few feet in front of two sunbathing friends. Visiting Phipps Ocean Park from West Palm Beach on Saturday, the two women – each accompanied by a young daughter – had chosen a spot right next to a $17 million nourishment project depositing 20,000 cubic yards of sand per… Read More
Taking a leaf out of China’s bid to clean up the Yangtze, India is pushing ahead with big reforms along its internal waterways. Ships on India’s rivers will increasingly be called to use LNG as a fuel under new guidelines from New Delhi. The government is also looking at building 80 LNG-fuelled ships to operate… Read More
KINGSBRIDGE estuary could have dredging works taking place as soon as January 21 after a tendering process. Harbour Master Adam Parnell confirmed that Van Oord, a Dutch dredging company, were awarded the contract to undertake maintenance dredging of parts of the Kingsbridge and Salcombe Estuary, following a ‘competitive’ tendering process. Van Oord say they could… Read More
With near constant dredging in Oregon Inlet through the latter part of 2015, a solid channel continues to hold from the ocean bar through the navigation span of the Bonner Bridge. The most recent survey of the channel shows water depths of 9 to 11 feet for boats to pass through the shoaling caused by… Read More
Several major cleanup projects in Whatcom County have been put on hold as low oil prices have severely undercut state cleanup grant accounts. Nearly $14 million allocated to $28 million worth of cleanup projects in Bellingham and Blaine in the state’s current biennial budget are in the lurch until lawmakers, scheduled to start their session… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, alongside federal, state and local officials, celebrated the start of construction on one of the three remaining contracts for the C-111 South Dade project, an Everglades restoration project in Miami-Dade County today. The contract, known as Contract 8, involves constructing the North Detention Area, which will connect the C-111… Read More
Crew will begin dredging 2.6 million cubic yards of the Baltimore Harbor this month, a maintenance project that will deepen shipping channels by removing the mud, silt, sand, shells and other materials that have settled on the harbor floor. The project, part of a $25.6 million maintenance contract the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded last… Read More
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No end is in sight for dredging operations at the Murray Mouth, a year after they resumed. Dredging will be required “for some time into the future” due to the hotter and drier conditions brought on by the current El Nino weather pattern, according to the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR). About… Read More
Unseasonably heavy rainfall that is burdening area dams has affected several local construction projects, including Tulsa’s $350 million park going up along the Arkansas River, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said. “As you well know, we’ve been very busy lately,” said Micah Buchholz, a hydraulics engineer with the Corps who is water manager… Read More
One of Victoria’s most iconic beaches will undergo a major restoration, but the Andrews government continues to deny a link between the damage at Portsea front beach and the contentious channel deepening project, despite mounting scientific evidence. The decisions follows years of delays and millions of dollars spent on temporary measures that experts claim have… Read More
The central government on Friday said capital dredging work has commenced for a navigational channel to allow a ‘Cruise Berth‘ at Mormugao Port in Goa. The dredging work was inaugurated by Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari, who also holds the portfolio of union minister for road transport and highways. According to Gadkari, Mormugao will be the… Read More
Curious onlookers trudged through rain and chill this week, treading carefully along the narrow boardwalk, to witness the beach reconstruction project at Town Neck Beach. Once they made their way over the mist-shrouded marshes and looked through the chain-link fence enclosing the landside work area, they could spy bulldozers, men with surveying equipment, massive lengths… Read More
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has said that as far as the world economy is concerned port development is important and due to which the central government has adopted a policy to deepen the draft of the port channel by 19.5 metre from the existing 14 metre. Gadkari was speaking after… Read More