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The restoration of an endangered species habitat on Bird Island is expected to begin very soon. According to the project manager from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “I feel like we’re making good progress,” Adam Burnett, of the Corps’ New England District said. “We are not behind at all.” In September, the Quincy-based Cashman… Read More
Significant progress is being made on the €6m dredging works at Dunmore East Fishery Harbour Centre in Waterford. The works, which involve removing approx 27,000 metres cubed of material located in the harbour basin and in the approach channel to the port, commenced in June and are substantially complete. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and… Read More
For months, the West Bank’s flood protection authority has been holding forums and meetings with voters, preaching a seemingly noncontroversial message about the millage proposal that will go before West Jefferson voters on Nov. 21: Flood protection is essential, and a newly beefed-up system needs a dedicated revenue source to keep it in top form…. Read More
After much delay and several impassioned pleas from Port Isabel residents, the entrance to The Fingers is set to undergo maintenance dredging in the coming weeks. Over the last several months, dredging of the channel entrance has been a topic of conversation during numerous Port Isabel City Commission meetings, drawing extended discussion from both the… Read More
Work to repair, upgrade and strengthen Island Bay’s seawall will begin next week. Contractors Fulton Hogan will have workers on site setting up from next Wednesday 18 November. They plan to complete the job by mid-June next year. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the upgrade work will address structural issues and make the seawall more resilient… Read More
This morning, the EIB took part in the inauguration of the fourth lock in the Belgian town of Lanaye, close to Liege and just across the border from the Dutch city of Maastricht. In the company of several Belgian and Dutch Ministers and EIB Vice President Pim van Ballekom, King Philip of the Belgians officially… Read More
Notice Date 11/13/2015 Notice Type Modification/Amendment NAICS 237990 — Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction Contracting Office Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Savannah, Attn: CESAS-CT, 100 W. Oglethorpe Ave, Savannah, Georgia, 31402-0889, United States ZIP Code 31402-0889 Solicitation Number W912HN-15-B-0004 Point of Contact Travis J Specht, Phone: 9126525470, Bruce… Read More
A project is currently under way to build a new, larger fishing port in Casablanca, Morocco. For dredging operations the subcontractor, Somit, is using a dredger carrying an excavator equipped with an Atlas Copco HB 7000 hydraulic breaker. To ensure reliable operation of the attachment underwater, Atlas Copco supplied a complete package comprising the breaker,… Read More
The Lower Santa Cruz River has at times brought catastrophic devastation — like the 1983 flood in Maricopa and elsewhere in western Pinal. A feasibility study is taking place, conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, to determine the best methods for mitigating flood risks in the future. Representatives from the… Read More
Port Klang, the world’s 12th-busiest port, is likely to face congestion and possible disruption in its operations due to unequal dredging level of its Southern Channel and Northern Channel. Currently, bigger vessels are entering the port only through Pintu Gedung or the Southern Channel, which is about 18m in depth, while the shallow Pulau Angsa… Read More
The federal Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest from an unsuccessful bidder that threatened to delay the Savannah Harbor deepening project. At issue is a $99.6 million mitigation contract the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded in late July to CDM Constructors Inc. of Maitland, Fla., for a dissolved oxygen system. North Carolina-based Crowder… Read More
State-owned Mormugao port, located on India’s western coast, has dropped a plan to deepen its channel to berth so-called capesize ships (the biggest of the dry bulk carriers) on a public-private-partnership (PPP) basis after the solitary price bid received in a public tender exceeded the budget. The project—to deepen the port’s outer channel to 19.8… Read More
Brazil’s second-largest container terminal, Terminal de Conteineres de Paranaguá at the port of Paranagua, will soon be able to handle ships of more than 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units as a result of dredging. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The US Environmental Protection Agency has pledged almost $20 million dollars to help clean up the Clinton River in southeast Michigan. The river, which flows largely through Macomb County into Lake Saint Clair, has been designated a Great Lakes Area of Concern for many years. EPA officials announced Monday that more federal money is coming… Read More
Two communities in the Charleston area want help from the federal government to help them restore their beaches after last month’s historic rains in South Carolina. The Post and Courier reports that Folly Beach Mayor Tim Goodwin has written the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Isle of Palms is seeking help from the Federal… Read More