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To break loose a log jam of inaction on the planned Lake Zumbro sediment dredging project, Olmsted County could be asked to put forward upwards of $2 million in project funding, to be paid back by other project partners later. Olmsted County planned to partner with Rochester Public Utilities, Wabasha County, the Lake Improvement District… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District is urging boaters to use caution near its project in the St. Johns River in the Chicopit Bay and Helen Cooper Floyd Park area near Mayport Naval Station. The Corps Mile Point Training Wall Reconfiguration Project will continue through November where the St. Johns River meets the… Read More
The Broads Authority project involves creating new reed islands and restoring badly eroded reed beds, while also dredging 3,500 cubic metres from the channel that traverses the broad. Much of the material dredged from the bottom will be used in the construction of islands and in restoring banks. The dredging work is intended to help… Read More
SEVERAL tonnes of mud and silt have been dredged from the bed of the River Dart to prevent the Dartmouth Higher Ferry running aground on very low spring tides. A dredging tug has been used to scoop out the material and deposit it in the main channel of the river from where it will disperse… Read More
Plans to dredge the Penryn River were presented to Penryn Town Council at a meeting last night. David Pollard, a maritime consultant, gave a presentation on ‘The Jigsaw Project’ which wants to see a channel dredged at the Penryn River around Penryn Harbour. The two metre wide dredging channel would be part of a larger… Read More
Waurika Lake Master Conservancy District Director Dave Taylor received some good news at the District’s regular monthly meeting Tuesday. Progress on dredging, gate replacement and a pipeline extension project at Waurika Lake is on time and on budget. In the last 30 days, silt removal dredging has progressed 2,000 linear feet into the lake and… Read More
A major project to dredge Menemsha channel has hit a snag, missing its Jan. 31 deadline for completion and raising ire among Aquinnah officials over damage at the West Basin. The unfinished dredging project will not resume until next fall, Aquinnah and Chilmark selectmen learned this week. Bret Stearns, director of the Wampanoag tribe’s natural… Read More
Governor N.N Vohra has directed the Irrigation & Flood Control Department to ensure high speed work and completion of all dredging which is required to be carried out on river Jhelum. He was reviewing the progress in this regard at the Raj Bhavan here today. Under the Prime Minister’s Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Programme 2015, “Priority… Read More
The latest information on bidding processes for dredging contracts has been published on the IAA PortNews website’s Dredging page (in Russian). The page was updated with several invitations to bid issued by several Russian companies in December 2015. The IAA PortNews’ “Dredging” page contains helpful information on tenders of the month, winners in previous bidding… Read More
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has ordered sand dredgers operating in waterways in the state to stop their operations and vacate the sites immediately. Mr Ade Akinsanya, the Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructure, relayed the governor’s order at a closed door meeting he held on Monday with the dredgers from Ebute-Ilaje in Alausa, Ikeja…. Read More
The Lake Altoona Protection and Rehabilitation District will hold a special meeting this week to vote on whether to undertake a mechanical dredging project this winter while Lake Altoona is lowered. At the meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Seymour Town Hall, 6500 Tower Drive, district members will decide whether they want to start… Read More
http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Media/NewsReleases/tabid/11736/Article/647251/corps-of-engineers-revises-proposal-for-maintenance-dredging-of-milford-harbor.aspx
The Environment Agency is giving notice that an environmental statement has been prepared in respect of proposed dredging on the River Parrett in Somerset. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
PUMPS are to be installed at Victoria Dock‘s half-tide basin in Hull to combat rising silt levels in the Humber and protect hundreds of homes from flooding. The move comes after it was revealed siltation levels in the estuary are the highest for 50 years. The half-tide basin is used to store highways and groundwater… Read More
When the stretch of the Cooper River between the dam at Route 130 and upriver at Cuthbert Boulevard is in good shape, it is one of the best rowing venues in the country. But river has not been in top shape for a few years. The issue is silting. The course on the river, running between… Read More