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The Department of State lands will hold two hearings on maintenance dredging and waterway rules Wednesday in Astoria and Tillamook. From 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday in Suite 209 of the Port of Astoria’s newer offices, 10 Pier 1, the state will discuss and take public comment on the issue of maintenance dredging, specifically about… Read More
CentrePort chief executive officer Derek Nind says the port’s plans to deepen Wellington Harbour will bring increased connectivity and economic benefits to central New Zealand. A proposal to deepen Wellington Harbour is expected to keep freight costs down for importers and exporters in Manawatu, and the rest of central New Zealand. CentrePort is looking to… Read More
Representatives from ACT Engineers, a firm hired by the last year to tackle the city’s severely silted lagoons and back bay with long-term dredging strategies, will give an update on the city’s dredging program at a town hall meeting 11 a.m. Saturday, May 21. Public information officer Doug Bergen said Thursday that Mayor Jay Gillian… Read More
Aberdeen Harbour Board (AHB) has discarded a study which raised environmental concerns about its £415million plans to expand into Nigg Bay. Green groups said yesterday there was a “question mark” hanging over the site after a report revealed higher than expected levels of metal contamination within the area to be dredged for the expansion. But… Read More
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed an energy and water appropriations bill that included a provision inserted by Sen. Sherrod Brown that prevents the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from dumping polluted dredged sediment directly into Lake Erie. Over the past year, the Army Corps has been engaged in a federal lawsuit against the Ohio… Read More
The long, long coal train has come to a halt. Years ago, Lummi Nation declared Kwel Hoy’!, “We Draw the Line,” and vowed the coal trains would not unload at their fishing grounds and sacred burial site, Xwe’chieXen. They called upon the federal government to honor its treaty to protect those heritage assets. In a… Read More
The capital dredging of the Karnaphuli river, a vital project for the smooth operation of Chittagong port, remains incomplete even three and a half years after the deadline. About 80 percent of the project was completed before the appointed Malaysian contractor left it in 2013. Though nearly two third of the sand and mud were… Read More
Can infrastructure be sustainably built in a developing economy? As India undergoes a developmental period, this question assumes importance. Infrastructure growth is likely in railways, roads, airports, smart cities, large industrial units, super technological communication systems and the like. One of the major factors in infrastructure development is civil construction. In this sand, soil, cement,… Read More
A lawsuit filed by Ventura County and Fillmore against Moorpark and the Malibu Broad Beach replenishment project is being transferred to another county. All the parties have stipulated to a change of venue for the suit, which was filed in April in Ventura County Superior Court, County Counsel Leroy Smith said Tuesday. According to the… Read More
On June 10, the King of Belgium will officially open the Kieldrecht lock at the Port of Antwerp. Construction of the Kieldrecht lock is one of the largest Flemish infrastructure projects of the past few years. The lock was needed to ensure better access to the port area on the left bank of the Scheldt,… Read More
MP Sarah Newton has thrown her weight behind the Packet’s campaign to get Cornwall Council to support the dredging of an approach channel to Falmouth Docks. The Falmouth and Truro MP has written an email in support of the newspaper’s Pledge to Dredge campaign, which in its first week collected over 1,000 signatures urging the… Read More
A stalled dunes project in Long Beach Island has resumed, state officials said in a press release Thursday, May 5, but there is no word on when dunes will be built in Margate. The $138 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ project, which was suspended over the winter, has resumed and will continue through the… Read More
The government has taken up a project to dredge the Pashur river so that coal-laden vessels from India can travel through it to Rampal Power Plant to be set up only 14 kilometres away from the Sundarbans. Capital dredging of the Pashur channel from Mongla port to the proposed power plant in Rampal, Bagerhat is… Read More
The Anclote River won’t be dredged for a number of years, but the city received an update last week on groundwork being laid to ensure the project comes to fruition. Public Services Program Manager Bob Robertson and Economic Development Manager Karen Lemmons briefed the Tarpon Springs Board of City Commissioners during last Tuesday’s regular meeting…. Read More