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WORK has begun at a third dredging location in the River Kent in Kendal. Gravel removal from Romney Road, opposite Lound Road garage, began on Tuesday. The Environment Agency began dredging the River Kent at Mintsfeet Gravel trap on February 11 following a survey into the gravel which showed ‘trigger levels’ used to assess flood… Read More
Maintenance dredging in the Thunder Bay River helps commercial boating, and the federal government has given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $850,000 to dredge the Alpena harbor this year. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Rosmorport is going to dredge 23.8 mln cbm of material in 2016. According to IAA PortNews correspondent, this has been announced today by Andrei Lavrishchev, Executive Director of FSUE Rosmorport, at the 3rd International Forum of Dredging Companies organized by Media-Group PortNews. According to him, the scope of dredging works for construction of new facilities… Read More
After months of Mother Nature refusing to cooperate, Weeks Marine and Santa Rosa Island Authority agreed to postpone renourishment of Pensacola Beach until mid-June through a change order to the project contract. Paolo Ghio, Island Authority interim executive director, said Weeks Marine will replenish Navarre Beach first and then use the same equipment to pump… Read More
After about eight months of lobbying from Bellport Village, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works has agreed to dredge around the docks at Ho-Hum Beach on Fire Island. “It’s shallow, and we want to make it a little deeper, that’s the main thing,” said Bellport Village Mayor Ray Fell. Fell said there aren’t any… Read More
City leaders in Rockaway Beach are hoping to get some help from the federal government to clean up the town and boost its economy. Rockaway Beach Mayor Don Smith called a meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers and Empire Electric (the company that owns the lake) to talk about what can be done to… Read More
The Port of Hueneme will be deepened from its current 35 feet to 40 feet under a deal approved this week, a move expected to bring in more than 200,000 tons of additional cargo each year. The $8 million deepening project will bring 563 new jobs — directly and indirectly — to Ventura County and… Read More
Dredging of the canal and distributary network of the Karanja Major Irrigation Project has been taken up to ensure that the water reaches the tail-end farmers without hurdles. Jagannath Halangi, Chief Engineer of the Kalaburagi Irrigation Zone, told The Hindu on Tuesday that the work on dredging of the main canals on the right and… Read More
Dredging work continues along the Cooper River, with Camden County officials insisting the project will be complete in time for spring rowing events. The dredging operation began last August, and ran into some problems that doubled the cost and dragged things out a bit. But Camden County Freeholder Jeffrey Nash says crew teams need not… Read More
Gator Dredging, based in Clearwater, plans to begin dredging Turkey Creek sometime around Feb. 15 or Feb. 16, county officials said. The company will remove about 230,000 cubic yards of muck sediment from Turkey Creek between the railroad bridge and the Indian River Lagoon. The $7.2 million project is funded by the Florida Department of… Read More
The Ghana Water Company Limited is taking steps to dredge the bed of the Densu River to increase the volume or impoundment to check the low flows associated with the dry season. Mr Samuel Yaw Adusei, Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, who made the announcement in Accra, said the siltation of the… Read More
The dredging of the Menemsha channel isn’t the first Army Corps of Engineers project in the region to suffer from delays and complications since the federal government approved more than $50 billion in recovery aid after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. More than $5 billion went to the Army Corps, which manages many of the channels,… Read More
With any luck, boaters should soon be able to again navigate in and out of the Ventura Harbor without needing an escort. Exactly when that will happen, however, is unclear — maybe within a week. “Let’s just say we hope it happens soon, very soon,” Richard Parsons, dredging program manager for the Ventura Port District,… Read More
Dredging will start in mid-May to deepen the access channel to the port of Maputo, to allow ships of up to 80,000 tonnes to enter the port, according to the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), which holds the lease on the port. The channel will be dredged from the current depth of 11 metres to… Read More
Public Works Director Juan Florensa said state regulators have had their turtle fears abated after causing delay to the pending and intensive beach renourishment project. Last week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and state agencies were worried that the town’s plan to dredge both the passes on both the south and north ends… Read More