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The Noyo Harbor District, with the help of their SHN Consulting Engineers and Geologists, has finally navigated the regulatory maze needed to get permission to dredge its mooring basin this fall. District Manager Jere Kleinbach told commissioners last week that was the good news. The bad news is that bidding closed last week with only… Read More
Crown Bay dredging will continue through the first week of September while the V.I. Port Authority starts and follows through with several projects. At its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, the Port Authority board unanimously approved spending $540,000 for 24 more work days to complete the bond-funded East Gregerie Channel project, bringing the cost to $3… Read More
While the town dredges sediment from the mouth of Sesuit Harbor every year to ensure safe passage for boats, the interior of the harbor has not been dredged since the 1950s, according to Dennis Harbormaster Dawson Farber. While the town dredges sediment from the mouth of Sesuit Harbor every year to ensure safe passage for… Read More
For the past three weeks, a giant excavator has been scooping mud and other gooey debris from underneath murky brown Mississippi River waters at Alton Marina, then dumping the sludge on a barge. From there, the crew from River Life and Co. Inc. of Portage des Sioux, Mo., pulls up two large, vertical metal steadying… Read More
Critical dredging work on the federally managed Baker Bay channel at the Port of Ilwaco began Aug. 11 and continues through the rest of the month if the good weather holds. But Port Manager Guy Glenn Jr., says more work will need to done to ensure the channel functions effectively into the future. The channel… Read More
This solicitation will be an Unrestricted competitive procurement. Any resulting contract will be firm-fixed priced. The solicitation for this project will be available by INTERNET ACCESS ONLY and will be available for download on or about 17 July 2015. Access to the documents will be through a link on the FedBizOpps website: http://www.fbo.gov. Use the… Read More
City leaders have taken one small step toward possibly digging out the nearly dry Laguna Lake. The San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize a request for proposals for the first phase of a dredging and sediment project for the lake. A plan could be determined as soon as next spring. The… Read More
The town of Darien will move forward with a project this fall to rebuild the Upper Gorham Pond dam, dredge thousands of cubic yards of road sand, and install a fish ladder to help herring migrate more easily, officials said. The primary focus of the project will be the restoration of the aging dam, including… Read More
DREDGING of the Brunswick River and harbour is due to start this week. The $410,000 project comes after a bed-level survey identified shallow areas that required maintenance dredging for safe navigation. “Earlier this month a 40-foot vessel making an emergency stop was grounded for three hours on Brunswick River shoals so the dredging is timely,”… Read More
Solicitation Number: W9127N-16-B-0001 Agency: Department of the Army Office: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Location: USACE District, Portland Solicitation Number: W9127N-16-B-0001 Notice Type: Sources Sought Synopsis: Added: Aug 18, 2015 5:44 pm 1. General. This is a Sources Sought Notice. This is NOT an Invitation for Bids. The purpose of this notice is to obtain… Read More
Citing an unworkable time line for progress, the JAX Chamber is pulling out of a highly touted truce it helped craft with an environmental watchdog that was intended to avoid a potentially time-consuming court battle over the controversial project to dredge the St. Johns River. The chamber’s exit from the unlikely alliance — a fragile… Read More
GEELONG Port is getting an $8 million upgrade, including significant dredging at the hands of a New Zealand construction firm. Heron Construction Company’s 52m dredge, the Machiavelli, will arrive at Refinery Pier in September and spend up to eight weeks conducting excavations to expand the port. The underwater mud and sludge from the operation will… Read More
Solent Refit, the Southampton water, UK-based refit yard has plans to develop berths for larger vessels alongside its floating pontoon. Currently the yard can berth vessels up to around 60 metres but draft limitations restrict the access for larger craft. Now they are initiating a dredging programme that will provide deeper water alongside. Solent Refit… Read More
The ever-changing beach replenishment schedule for Long Beach Island is continuing to evolve as one of two dredge boats involved in the project is receiving repairs. The dredge boat Padre Island was receiving repairs offshore recently while the Dodge Island was continuing dredging operations, sucking up sand and delivering it to island beaches. By August… Read More
Multiple residents and visitors of Beach Haven stood before the town council during the regular monthly meeting Monday, Aug. 10, to express their concerns regarding the borough’s beach replenishment, adding that many of them like the beaches “just the way they are.” The project, which was last said to begin shortly after Labor Day, has… Read More