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Dredging on the Goodwin Sands would impact wildlife and endanger eco-systems, conservationists have said. The Port of Dover plans to remove up to 3m cubic yards (2.5m cubic metres) of sand and gravel. The area being explored in the recommended Marine Conservation zone covers an areas of 4.5 square miles about eight miles (12km) from… Read More
A dredging project on the South River is helping bolster Marshfield’s shoreline. In the final weeks of 2015, sand was sucked out of a shallow section of the South River and poured onto Rexhame Beach as a long-planned dredging project presented an opportunity for beach nourishment. The project will leave a stretch of the public… Read More
Crews from the Baltimore District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start work this month on a $25.6 million project to maintain shipping lanes in Baltimore Harbor and its bay channels, according to a news release. Some of the dredged material will be sent to an Anne Arundel County facility. Workers will begin dredging… Read More
Santa Rosa County’s Tourist Development Council is hoping to postpone a nearly $15 million restoration of Navarre Beach set to begin this spring, citing potentially detrimental impacts to the area’s tourism season. Though the County Commission approved the contract with Weeks Marine Inc. for the project, set to begin in March and finish by June,… Read More
The Pier 4 Project at Hilo Harbor was celebrated with a groundbreaking and dedication/blessing ceremony Friday morning. Friday’s ceremony celebrates the final phase of the project, the Pier 4 Inter-Island Cargo Terminal. Involved in the project is the creation of a 602-linear foot reinforced concrete pier with associated site work located west of the existing… Read More
Armed with $3.1 million in federal funds, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will install three miles of temporary barriers along a stretch of the Los Angeles River near Griffith Park to ensure it won’t overflow during El Niño storms, officials announced Jan. 8. The local district of the Corps of Engineers will also begin… Read More
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Having earned public goodwill after giving a makeover to the Perumpallam Odai, Erodai, a social organisation working for environmental remediation in the district, has started dredging the Pitchakaranpallam Odai and Sunnambu Odai. Close to 10,000 tonnes of garbage have been dredged out of the Perumpallam Odai that have habitations on two sides, and a little… Read More
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