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MORE than 20,000 cubic metres of sand will be pumped onto Maroochydore Beach from Monday in an effort to rejuvenate the eroded coast line. Sunshine Coast Council executive director Infrastructure Services, Andrew Ryan, said dredging works would be finished by March 4, weather permitting. “The key purpose of the dredging is to create and maintain… Read More
Could or should Swampscott Harbor have a breakwater? It is a question the Harbor and Water Advisory Committee have been considering and was the subject of a presentation at the Selectmen’s meeting last week. Jay Borkland, of consulting firm Apex Companies and a Swampscott resident said a breakwater would be a “defining structure in the… Read More
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The project to deepen the Delaware River navigation channel will receive $22 million in the Army Corps of Engineers’ current fiscal year work plan and $33 million in President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017, which begins Oct. 1, according to Sen. Robert P. Casey (D., Pa.). About 80 percent of the channel is… Read More
The EU has launched a major project involving an international consortium of 14 industry and research organisations aimed at the sustainable harvesting of polymetallic nodules from the deep ocean. Called Blue Nodules, the project will also involve Netherlands-based shipbuilder and offshore innovator Royal IHC and Belgian dredging and offshore giant DEME. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
After more than a year-long delay, a new set of larger locks for the Panama Canal will be complete by the end of June, the waterway’s administrator said on Wednesday, after builders repaired cracks that had formed in the concrete walls. The consortium building a third, bigger set of locks on one of the world’s… Read More
Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allocate additional funding to dredge Eastern North Carolina’s Oregon and Hatteras Inlets. In a letter sent today, Congressman Jones reminded Army Corps of Engineers leadership of the chronically poor navigation conditions at both inlets. He also pointed out that the… Read More
Residents around Lake Altoona vote to move forward with a $1.4 million project to dredge several parts of the lake. Only two people voted “no” to the plan to remove more than 12,000 truckloads of sand from several areas of the lake. The Lake District says by removing the sediment now, Lake district tax payers… Read More
There’s more sandy material in Milford Harbor’s navigation channel than first thought, limiting safe navigation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says. The Corps had already planned to dredge portions of the 10-foot entrance channel, but it is now revising its plans because of a higher than expected amount of sandy material in the harbor…. Read More
The rebuilding of the first 57 metre section of Cashin Quay 2 at the Port of Christchurch has finished and by the end of April the new wharf should reach 101 metres. The entire 230 metre long wharf will be completed by the end of the year. “The new Cashin Quay 2 wharf will be… Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency has paved the way for work to start on the construction of a new multi-million euro harbour for small craft at Ros a’ Mhíl. Extensive dredging work is set to take place this year to allow for the new 92-berth harbour and the deepening of the marina area. The EPA has… Read More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is awarding $2.3 million to restore habitats on islands southwest of Detroit in the lower Detroit River. U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters have announced the grant for the Stony Island Habitat Restoration. The funding will go to the Friends of the Detroit River. The restoration project seeks… Read More
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