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Dredging the city’s back bays may not be that far off, as the state is considering allowing Margate to place dredged material in a 57-foot-deep hole near Wellington Avenue in Atlantic City. According to city attorney J. Scott Abbott, Margate officials plan to meet with representatives from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and… Read More
The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District is holding an informational meeting on Wednesday, March 2 to discuss its dredging plan for the channels in King Salmon. The district decided in a January meeting that it would dredge the King Salmon main channel, and said in a report, “dredging activities for the King Salmon… Read More
The Port of Everett wants to dig contaminated sediments out of Port Gardner Bay to help further develop one of the West Coast’s busiest deep-water seaports. The work would improve the local environment, Puget Sound and navigational access to the port’s Pacific Terminal. The Washington Department of Ecology is seeking comments through March 30, on… Read More
Tayport Harbour in Fife, Scotland has recently been dredged by Van Oord, one of the largest dredging companies in the world. The entrance channel is now 0.8m below chart datum and the harbour is now 0.6m below chart datum. This means most boats will be able to enter and exit the Tayport Harbour on all… Read More
A meeting for businesses interested in dredging Charleston Harbor to a 52-foot depth attracted 13 companies to the Army Corps of Engineers offices on Tuesday, as the process for picking a finalist for the $509 million project moves into its initial stages. The meeting, which was closed to the public, included an hour-long overview of… Read More
Dredging along the Genesee River is scheduled to get underway this spring. The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to award the contract for the project next week. The Rover, including the Port of Rochester, was last dredged in 2014 when 200,000 cubic yards of debris and sand were removed from the water. Senator Chuck… Read More
A $5.35 million maintenance dredging project at the Riviera Beach-based Port of Palm Beach’s entrance channel in the Lake Worth Inlet is expected to start early next week and continue through mid-April. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, spokeswoman Susan Jackson said approximately 200,000 cubic yards of shoal material will be removed from Palm… Read More
WORK has begun at a third dredging location in the River Kent in Kendal. Gravel removal from Romney Road, opposite Lound Road garage, began on Tuesday. The Environment Agency began dredging the River Kent at Mintsfeet Gravel trap on February 11 following a survey into the gravel which showed ‘trigger levels’ used to assess flood… Read More
Maintenance dredging in the Thunder Bay River helps commercial boating, and the federal government has given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $850,000 to dredge the Alpena harbor this year. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Rosmorport is going to dredge 23.8 mln cbm of material in 2016. According to IAA PortNews correspondent, this has been announced today by Andrei Lavrishchev, Executive Director of FSUE Rosmorport, at the 3rd International Forum of Dredging Companies organized by Media-Group PortNews. According to him, the scope of dredging works for construction of new facilities… Read More
After months of Mother Nature refusing to cooperate, Weeks Marine and Santa Rosa Island Authority agreed to postpone renourishment of Pensacola Beach until mid-June through a change order to the project contract. Paolo Ghio, Island Authority interim executive director, said Weeks Marine will replenish Navarre Beach first and then use the same equipment to pump… Read More
After about eight months of lobbying from Bellport Village, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works has agreed to dredge around the docks at Ho-Hum Beach on Fire Island. “It’s shallow, and we want to make it a little deeper, that’s the main thing,” said Bellport Village Mayor Ray Fell. Fell said there aren’t any… Read More
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