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Snug Harbor will be dredged this year, engineers said as they laid out a plan to address lagoon and back bay dredging before community members during a town hall meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25 at the senior center. “We’re here to be your advocates and we really hope to make this work,” said Carole Beske, project… Read More
After years of waiting, a much-anticipated dredging of back bays and lagoons in Ocean City is likely to begin just after Labor Day. The bad news is that only Snug Harbor can be dredged this year, and it appears that the problem is twice as bad as previously anticipated. Representatives from ACT Engineering and Anchor… Read More
Even as the Jacksonville Port Authority and city leaders continue to plod along in their quest to find money to deepen the St. Johns River, recent successes bode well for the local port’s future. A parade of 18-wheelers, all quite naked without their containers, idle bumper to bumper in the shadow of diesel cranes on… Read More
Bob Johnson has little hope that an environmental problem will be fixed by the massive hole that’s been dug at the intersection toward the end of his block. Crews have been out there for several weeks digging to remove a pair of manhole vaults — the latest effort in nearly 15 years of work aimed… Read More
Muck dredged from the Eau Gallie River is composed of sediments that washed in from the surrounding watershed — not smelly sewage or toxic industrial wastes like in the polluted Little Calumet River near Chicago, John Windsor said. “How did they get there? We did it. It’s our responsibility. We need to clean this up,”… Read More
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Investment has proposed the city People’s Committee to approve a radial canal cleanup project under Public Private Partnership. Japanese loans will cover VND3,500 billion (US$156 million) out of the project’s total capital of VND5,106 billion (US$227.37 million), the body suggested. The project, developed by a joint… Read More
Brick Mayor John Ducey said state officials have told him the township, along with neighboring Mantoloking, will be prioritized in the timing of a planned beach and dune replenishment project that has been stalled nearly a year by legal wranglings. The mayor faced questions from concerned residents Tuesday night at a township council meeting held in… Read More
Work to bury huge sandbags to reinforce an eroded ocean beach in Montauk is scheduled to begin in October, despite a lawsuit from environmentalists seeking to stop the project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said. The $8.4 million emergency plan would place 14,000 “geotextile” sandbags — each weighing 1.7 tons — along 3,100 feet… Read More
Port managers, local seafood processors and Pacific County residents aiming to keep local issues at the forefront of future policy and federal budget discussions met with congressional and senate staff at a round-table discussion at the Port of Ilwaco Aug. 24. Staff from the offices of U.S. Rep.Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-WA, 3rd Dist., U.S. Sen…. Read More
The next 5 years at the Port of Gdansk will see the implementation of the largest ever investment program, in terms of both scope and expense, says PGA. The program initiated by the Port of Gdansk Authority and worth almost nearly 1 billion PLN (842 million PLN, to be precise), which will cover almost the… Read More
Sections of the Intracoastal Waterway near the Isle of Palms and near McClellanville are expected to be dredged thanks to almost $3 million earmarked for waterway maintenance. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that the Charleston District of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received $2.4 million for the work and Charleston County has… Read More
Expressions of Interest (EOI) from industry have been invited by the Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) for the design and construction of the new Integrated Marine Operations Centre (IMOC) at the Port of Port Hedland. This signficant project, which was announced by the Minister for Transport in July 2015, will facilitate the safe and efficient movement… Read More
North-West Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport has announced an open tender (No ???? 163-15) for the maintenance dredging at the water area of the Ugolnaya Gavan (Coal Harbour) of Big Port St. Petersburg, the company says. According to the company’s press center, initial price is RUB 23,728,080. The source of financing – internal funds. The… Read More
Indian conglomerate Adani reached two milestones this week for its proposed AUD20 billion (USD14.6 billion) Australian port, rail, and mine project in northern Queensland. On 21 August, the Queensland state government announced that a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on dredging and expansion at the port had given the project the go-head. The final EIS… Read More
Cos Cob Harbor and the Mianus River, which have seen their share of both commercial and pleasure boats over the past two centuries, will be getting a much-needed dredging in 2016. The Army Corps of Engineers will dredge Cos Cob Harbor from buoy No. 9, just outside the Riverside Yacht Club, all the way up… Read More