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The dredging operations are currently underway along the River Parrett, with the main goal to provide extra protection against flooding in Somerset. This flood protection work along 3 km of the River Parrett started at the end of November, with two contracts for dredging being funded by Somerset Rivers Authority. The dredging operations are currently… Read More
Margate is using a federal grant to explore new options for dredge material disposal in its own back bay. In October, Margate entered into an agreement with Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton’s Coastal Research Center, to conduct a marsh assessment and develop a restoration plan using a $125,000 National Fish and Wildlife Fund grant it… Read More
It will be at least 2017 before federal money shakes loose to dredge sand out of Gordon Pass, and boaters say that is too long to wait. “It is very frustrating they’re not going to take care of this,” Island Sailing captain Rob Dawes said. Boaters have been sounding the alarm about what they say… Read More
A $31 million segmented breakwater project at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge was approved at the Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection Restoration Act (CWPPRA) meeting Dec. 10. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), which owns and manages Rockefeller, will use the funding to construct and maintain 2.5 miles of breakwater structure initially with the potential to… Read More
More than £5 million is to be spent on a project to stabilise cliffs along the coastline at Clacton and Holland-on-Sea. Over £2 million of the money has come from a major Coastal Protection Scheme along a 5kms stretch of the same coastline being completed under budget and £3million from Anglian Water. The partners funding the… Read More
Local governments are cutting their losses on a beleaguered plan to revitalize an 18-mile stretch of the Santa Cruz River. The Marana Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday to withdraw as a local sponsor of the Tres Rios del Norte feasibility study. The study, and its resulting initiatives, would have helped restore the ecosystem and replenished… Read More
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The state Department of Environmental Protection on Friday issued permit modifications for a dredging project that had been halted earlier this week due to a spill of chemically treated water and sediment, and neighbors reported work has resumed. “Equipment has been operating all day,” said Penny Beddia, 58, an Avalon resident who lives across 80th… Read More
Just in time for Christmas there is finally some good news for the stricken container port of Itajai in Brazil, which received the necessary permitting for the construction of an expanded turning basin at a cost of 105 million reais ($27.59 million)
GREAT Yarmouth Borough Council has started work on an important coast protection scheme for Scratby, which aims to give the community more time to adapt to coastal change. The scheme is to lay a 877-metre long revetment of about 1,300 gabions – stone-filled and crushed concrete-filled cages – from the existing rock berm at Little… Read More
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Dredging has begun along the River Parrett to provide extra protection against flooding in Somerset. The work is part of a programme of dredging funded by Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) taking place across the Levels following the flooding in 2014. It has been designed to work in conjunction with the Environment Agency’s £2.5m investment in… Read More
Wahkiakum County Port 1 commissioners, who are preparing to dredge the marina and the neighboring channel next year, find themselves stalled in the permit process while they wait to hear if the Town of Cathlamet will allow them to place their dredge spoils in the empty sewage lagoons nearby. A piece of the property belongs… Read More
Parliamentary Secretary for the Hunter and Central Coast, Scot MacDonald MLC said today maintenance dredging work is due to commence next week to reduce the size of a sand shoal that reformed in the navigation channel near the southern entrance to Swan Bay at the Swansea Channel. “Removing sand from the shoal will take about… Read More