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A new stretch of the River Parrett will be dredged in the New Year, Somerset’s flood protection body has said. The move follows a decision by Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) to spend £2.1m to dredge a 750m stretch between Northmoor and the M5 near Taunton. Chairman John Osman said: “This area we’ve chosen to dredge… Read More
The Ministry of Public Works would like to inform the public that the widening of the North Channel will commence at the end of October 2015. The channel is being widened and dredged to accommodate the new generation of cruise ships, commencing with the 2016 visits of Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum class. It is anticipated… Read More
Since securing state and federal permits to dredge the federally-authorized shipping channel, it has been widely understood within the Port St. Joe Port Authority that before the first turn of the shovel there had to be a place for its contents to go. The Port Authority last week formally moved ahead on the construction of… Read More
Dredging work on the North Channel will begin before the end of the month so Bermuda’s shipping ways can accommodate the latest generation of cruise ship next year. The dredging and widening of the channel that runs from off St George’s towards Dockyard is expected to take a month to complete, but will not affect… Read More
The Mississippi River Reintroduction to Bayou Lafourche project took another step forward last week when the State Bond Commission approved up to $30 million in revenue bonds for the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District to continue work. Ben Malbrough, the district’s executive director, said the approval essentially establishes a line of credit for the project,… Read More
The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority (NT EPA) has considered the Port Melville project and decided that no further assessment is required under the Environmental Assessment Act. Chair of the NT EPA Bill Freeland says the determination comes after a detailed consideration of the port components, including those yet to be constructed in the lease… Read More
The state Canal Corp. intends to issue a new PCB dredging plan for the Champlain Canal on the Hudson River to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers within the next 90 days. In a statement, the Canal Corp. also said the new plan make “no substantial changes” to a dredging plan that has been before… Read More
APM Terminals Moin has announced a number of port project updates enabling Costa Rica’s future economic growth needs through a safe, world-class, high-productivity and environmentally-sustainable container terminal designed to serve the larger vessels entering the Latin American trades, and in particular, the temperature controlled containers through which fresh fruit such as pineapple and bananas are… Read More
Cape May County Chamber of Commerce hosted a dredging forum Oct. 19. Speakers included Freeholder E. Marie Hayes, U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd), Lou Chiarella (Habitat Conservation NOAA), Sam Reynolds (Army Corps Engineers), and Mark Davis (NJDEP). They discussed the future dredging needs of the county. Local fishermen, marine organizations, marina owners, and concerned citizens… Read More
Olmsted County turned another page in the 10-year Lake Zumbro dredging project saga as the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday approved filing a formal application for $3 million in project funding. The dredging was originally planned as a $7 million project with $3.5 million in matching state funds. The state awarded 2012 bonding funds… Read More
Stevens Point residents will be seeing some dredging operation in the Wisconsin River near Pfiffner Pioneer Park over the next several weeks as Wisconsin Public Service does some riverbed remediation. WPS remediation waste manager Brian Bartoszek says they’re working to clean up the mess left when an old coal gas plant was torn down in… Read More
Panaji: The Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) has granted its approval to the Captain of Ports (CoP) to undertake dredging operations at the mouth of River Chapora, however, it has to ensure that the activity does not have any adverse environment impact. Permission has been granted to dredge in an area of around 500… Read More
The Cochin Port Trust (CPT) is working on a project to use the silt and sand dredged from the shipping channel in Kochi for construction purposes. The project assumes significance in the wake of the rising demand for sand in the State and restrictions imposed on mining sand due its environmental impact. Construction companies are… Read More
Hilton Head Island’s planned beach renourishment will begin in February and finish just in time to open the beaches for Memorial Day weekend and the busy summer tourist season, according to town engineers. The $20.7 million project will place more than 2 million cubic yards of new sand on four segments of the island’s iconic… Read More
A federal contractor is expected to soon start dredging part of Port Gardner and the Snohomish River, an annual task to keep the river’s boat channel and Everett’s seaport free of silt. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is managing the $1.1 million project with support from the Port of Everett. The work is being… Read More