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A meeting for businesses interested in dredging Charleston Harbor to a 52-foot depth attracted 13 companies to the Army Corps of Engineers offices on Tuesday, as the process for picking a finalist for the $509 million project moves into its initial stages. The meeting, which was closed to the public, included an hour-long overview of… Read More
Dredging along the Genesee River is scheduled to get underway this spring. The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to award the contract for the project next week. The Rover, including the Port of Rochester, was last dredged in 2014 when 200,000 cubic yards of debris and sand were removed from the water. Senator Chuck… Read More
A $5.35 million maintenance dredging project at the Riviera Beach-based Port of Palm Beach’s entrance channel in the Lake Worth Inlet is expected to start early next week and continue through mid-April. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, spokeswoman Susan Jackson said approximately 200,000 cubic yards of shoal material will be removed from Palm… Read More
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