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With severe storms in recent years, Barnstable Harbor has experienced such extensive shoaling that officials believe one more similar winter will result in the channel being blocked to large vessels entirely. The Barnstable Town Council last week approved $490,000 for phase one of a project to dredge the outer channel of the harbor. That project… Read More
The water level in the river has fallen. The Irrigation and Flood Control Department had earlier this year issued tenders for purchasing two dredgers. The process hasn’t reached anywhere yet, said an official. Jhelum is calmer these days. The water level in the river has fallen. But there is no urgency on part of the… Read More
Work on the third phase of the boardwalk reconstruction project has begun between just north of Seventh Street to the north side of Eighth Street, Mayor Jay Gillian announced in his open letter to residents Friday, Oct. 16. In May, City Council authorized a $1.88 million contract with Walters Marine Construction, Inc. of Ocean View… Read More
Time is almost up for Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge officials to finish one phase of a major restoration project on the water. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Project Leader Al Rizzo said the deadline mandated by Congress to dredge three water channels at Prime Hook is the end of October. Restoration Project Manager Bart… Read More
The Engineering Division of Tamil Nadu Fisheries Department, which is dredging the shallow Mandapam north sea for free movement of fishing boats, plans to complete the work by November first week. The fishing harbour sub-division, which launched the Rs.55-lakh project in April to deepen the channel by 0.6 metre, has covered 280 metres using manual… Read More
ATLANTIC CITY State and federal agencies began working Thursday on a $32.5 million storm control project to protect the northern end of Atlantic City, starting with a sea wall along the Absecon Inlet. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and state Environmental Protection Department also will replace an old section of crumbling boardwalk that had… Read More
Judge Keith Long said Sandwich property owners seeking an injunction may “regret” not signing permanent easements to make dredged sand available to protect their coastal homes. A Land Court judge has denied an injunction from coastal property owners to block the town from accepting 150,000 cubic yards of dredge materials to protect Town Neck Beach…. Read More
Plans to bring back the beach along Ocean View are on the front burner once again. The bidding process has been a rough one and then the coastal storm put things behind. The city of Norfolk is trying to get the beach replenishment program back on track. Wind and water are the two enemies of… Read More
Nibulon agricultural company (Mykolaiv), Ukraine’s largest producer and exporter of grain and oilseeds, plans to start dredging works on the Southern Bug River by the end of October 2015. “By the end of October our company plans to start dredging works on the Southern Bug River using our own forces, as today public agencies do… Read More
Boaters and the recreational and commercial fishing community can look forward to easier launching and mooring as the Port of Bandon mobilizes for winter dredging of the launch ramp and marina this week. Port General Manager Gina Dearth said that equipment, including a large crane, was scheduled to pick up and set in place in… Read More
Plans to dredge the Lake Worth Inlet and dump sand onto North End beaches — plans that were in limbo this summer — are moving forward after the United States Army Corps of Engineers changed its view on the cost of sand placement. It’s a win-win for the town as it will not have to… Read More
Thousands of pounds of sand from the Gulf of Mexico spewed from a pipe Wednesday (Oct. 14) onto the re-growing beach and dunes that makes up the Caminada Headlands, the southernmost edge of Jefferson and Lafourche parishes that protects both rich wetlands just to its north and the nationally important Port Fourchon, jumping off point… Read More
When it comes to cause and effect in a maritime economy, you can’t get much bigger than the Panama Canal expansion project and its ripple effect on ports 1,800 nautical miles away. With the dredging of the Delaware River almost complete, attention has turned to regional port officials, timelines, and the question of just who… Read More
An economic impact study of yachting business along the Dania Cutoff Canal shows that the $6 million dredging project that wrapped up in 2013 has produced up to six times the economic impact that state officials thought it would. In the summer of 2014, officials from the Florida Inland Navigation District, the group that headed… Read More
The city is getting a twofer from the state, as contractors pump sand this month from a choked creek onto the city’s badly damaged north-end beaches. The state Department of Transportation is dredging out Beach Creek in Hereford Inlet to make it more navigable for boaters. After an analysis determined that the dredged material was… Read More