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Flagstone Property Group’s work to build the area’s first deep water marina for super-yachts includes creation of an artificial reef. Flagstone is developing a corner of city-owned Watson Island into a multi-million dollar resort called Island Gardens. The developer said this week it has begun installation of the Brickell Mitigation Reef Site, designed to offset… Read More
Ho Chi Minh City authorities have decided to spend VND950 billion (US$41.8 million) building three large-scale reservoirs in the most flood-prone areas of three districts. With a total area of 100ha, the three proposed reservoirs are expected to accumulate tens of millions of cubic meters of water and resolve the flooding problem in District 4,… Read More
Dredging work in the shipping channel of Beaufort Inlet concluded in the final week of August, but shoaling has already started again there, according to Capt. Andrew Midgett with the Morehead City Pilots Association. “We’re in a little bit better shape than we were, but we’re already starting to see some shoaling taking place again,”… Read More
Mozambique’s Minister of Transport and Communications Carlos Mesquita has said the dredging of the port of Quelimane, in the central province of Zambezia, is due to begin later in September and will last until January 2016.Once the work is completed around 320,000 cubic metres of sediment are expected to have been removed, Mesquita announced in… Read More
Plans to dredge a nearly 6 mile channel at Port Said as well as develop the entire region surrounding theNew Suez Canal remain on hold, reports suggest. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
A project which took loans from three cities – Duncan, Lawton and Comanche – and a grant or two is now underway for Waurika Lake. The dredging project, under the direction of Wynn Construction, has started the first stage of the projects, Waurika Lake Master Conservancy District Manager Dave Taylor said. “At the end of… Read More
State officials have confirmed the Double Creek Channel, one of two ways southern Ocean County boaters access Barnegat Inlet and theAtlantic Ocean, will be dredged after a two-season closure. The channel runs from the 42 buoy marker inBarnegat Bay to another channel that runs alongHigh Bar Harbor which ultimately leads to the inlet. It has… Read More
The dredging of the port of Quelimane, in Mozambique’s Zambézia province, is due to begin this month and will last until January 2016. Once the work is completed around 320,000 cubic metres of sediment are expected to have been removed, Mozambique’s Minister of Transport and Communications said. Minister Carlos Mesquita, who was speaking in the… Read More
The end of August was an exciting time for Clay Township, as tons of heavy equipment was brought to the ferry dock waiting to be transported to the island. The amphibious dump trucks are mobile vehicles equipped to dig out dirt and sediment that accumulate in drains. The Krispin Drain has been impassable for years,… Read More
Sales tax projects, including dredging, fire substations and road resurfacing, are on track to be completed simultaneously after Georgetown County Council took action to borrow up to $28 million at its regular meeting Aug. 25. In a unanimous decision, council approved the second reading of an ordinance that would, if passed, borrow up to $28… Read More
A portion of Pfiffner Pioneer Park is planned to close for about a month this year so Wisconsin Public Service can remove contamination from the bottom of the Wisconsin River. The area previously was the site of a coal gassification plant run by WPS in the early 1900s that closed around 1940. Petroleum-based contaminants ran… Read More
The city Department of Environmental Protection will start dredging the Flushing Bay next year. The DEP said it would dredge about 16.8 acres of the bay along the southwest shore adjacent to the World’s Fair Marina. The project will remove piles of sediment from the bay so that they are never above the waterline. Dredging… Read More
Stone Harbor Borough Council had the final reading and adoption of a $5-million bond ordinance Sept. 1 aimed at supporting the plan for back bay dredging. The intent was to make the award to a contractor quickly and be in position to take advantage of the short dredging period allowed by state regulations beginning Sept…. Read More
The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) at the weekend said the N25 billion contract for the dredging of River Benue which was awarded by the federal government last year would commence soon. Acting managing director of NIWA, Danladi Ibrahim, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Lokoja on the activities of the agency, noted that… Read More
DNREC is hoping to get Delaware residents more engaged with the projects they conduct around the state and have produced a 5-minute video featuring an explanation of their Little River channel dredging project to assist with that endeavor. The $1.01 million state-funded project is a collaborative effort between DNREC’s Divisions of Watershed Stewardship and Fish… Read More