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The dangerous shoaling off the entrance to Humboldt Bay, which the Journal reported on in April, remains of great concern to the sheriff’s office, which sent out a press release reminding boaters of the shallow waters and hazardous new breaks the sediment has caused. Army Corps of Engineers dredging is scheduled to start in two… Read More
Criticized by a local construction group for his government’s decision to go with a Barbadian company to carry out a major infrastructural project although there was enough local expertise for the job, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has defended the move and insisted that much of the money would remain in Dominica. NSG Management and Technical… Read More
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Beach replenishment on Long Beach Island has resumed, five months after the contractor pulled out of the work to handle jobs in other parts of the country. The return of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. pleased state environmental protection officials who were incensed that the company’s juggling of several projects put the Ocean County… Read More
The Pulicat Lake, which is located both in Nellore district, AP, and Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, has dried up totally on its northern side in AP, depriving many thousand people of a livelihood. About 40,000 people, living in 34 villages on the banks of the lake on the Tamil Nadu side, and 25,000 people, living… Read More
While the elevator shafts and steel framing of Columbia County’s under-construction administration building start to redefine the Portage skyline, another change, just as far-reaching, is scheduled to take place in Portage Canal. Starting in about 2½ weeks, a dredge will pull from the canal’s murky waters more than a century of accumulated, contaminated sediment. Columbia… Read More
Starting May 16, the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) will hold public hearings in Astoria, Tillamook, Newport, Coos Bay and Bandon to seek comments on two sets of administrative rules governing the state-owned waterway management and leasing program and the establishment of a new General Permit for Navigational Access Maintenance Dredging. The waterway rulemaking… Read More
Just as loggerhead sea turtle and the least tern nesting season begins, truckloads of pipe have began rolling onto Hideaway Beach for a two-and-a-half month dredging project to move 40,000 cubic yards of sand from the end of Sand Dollar Island as part of the 2016 Hideaway erosion project. Under the plan, Hideaway Beach will… Read More
Preparations have begun at the former Catalyst Paper sewage lagoon in order to get it ready for city usage. “We’ve started dredging the lagoon to prepare for the switch,” said City of Port Alberni major projects advisor Ken Watson. The city purchased Catalyst Paper’s former lagoon in 2011 at a cost of $5.7 million and… Read More
About RUB 1 billion will be invested in dredging of Volga-Caspian Shipping Canal and clearing of the canal bed in 2016. Last year 638 million rubles were invested in the VCSC dredging. As part of maintenance dredging 17 million cbm of materials have been excavated on the canal, the press office of Astrakhan Region Governor… Read More
The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and the city of Clarksville celebrated the completion of the Riverside Drive Stream Bank Stabilization Project during a ceremony at Freedom Point in Liberty Park. Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, Nashville District commander, Corps employees, Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillian, city officials, and representatives from the project contractor,… Read More
A project to deepen the Intracoastal Waterway through Fort Lauderdale began Wednesday, in an effort to accommodate the floating mansions called megayachts. These sleek craft boast helipads, elevators, saunas, wine cellars, pools, gyms and luxurious staterooms. But beyond serving as deluxe transportation for the wealthy, they form an important part of the region’s marine economy,… Read More
Dredging has begun on a stretch of the River Parrett at cost of £2.1m to prevent future flooding on the Somerset Levels. In October, Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) approved the funding for the work downstream of Northmoor and the M5. SRA chairman John Osman, said: “It is that little more expensive to do that section… Read More
New Zealand Refining hopes to apply for resource consents by the end of this year for dredging Whangarei Harbour, expected to cost between $30 million and $45 million, to allow heavier loads on tankers bringing crude oil to the refinery. At today’s annual general meeting, chief executive Sjoerd Post said consent application readiness for dredging… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a new review of its recently completed $1 billion cleanup of PCBs in the upper Hudson River. The EPA will hold the first workshop in a legally mandated review at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Saratoga Spa State Park administration building. It will be the first of a… Read More