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Amid vocal opposition from residents, the U.S. Coast Guard is backing off plans to dump dredge spoils from an environmentally contaminated site in Portland off the shore of Sauvie Island. The Coast Guard wants to conduct “maintenance dredging” of its berth for the USCGC Bluebell at its Marine Safety Unit in the Swan Island Lagoon,… Read More
The Port of Kalama commission voted this week to award a maintenance dredging contract to the apparent low bidder, HME Construction, for $893,910.00. As part of a routine project to maintain the draft needed for large cargo ships the firm will remove dredged materials in front of the TEMCO Grain Terminal located at the Port…. Read More
Wahkiakum County officials and the US Army Corps of Engineers moved closer Tuesday to starting a project to place Columbia River Dredge spoils on Puget Island‘s East Sunny Sands eroding beach. Corps representative Karla Ellis, chief of the waterway maintenance division, reported the Corps solicitors had completed the memorandum of agreement for the county and… Read More
A $23 million beach expansion project, which will bring 20 more blocks of squish-between-your-toes sand to Galveston, is scheduled to get underway Friday. The project will use about 725,000 cubic yards of sand dredged from the Galveston Ship Channel, transforming the current rocky shore along the Gulf of Mexico into an area both more inviting… Read More
It’s a start. A belated start, and only a small step toward the finish line, but a start. With $2.4 million in federal funds recently made available to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway between the Ben Sawyer Bridge and the Isle of Palms Connector will soon be dredged…. Read More
Egypt started Saturday the dredging works of a new 9.5 kilometer-long shipping lane in East Port Said to facilitate international trade maritime navigation, said Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Mohab Mamish in media remarks Friday. President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has decreed to start the dredging immediately after the inauguration of the 72km-long New Suez Canal that… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comments on a draft environmental review for continued maintenance of the Columbia River Federal Navigation Channel. The proposed maintenance includes placement of dredged material on the shoreline of Rice Island, just upstream from Astoria. The goal is to rebuild and protect the existing placement site and… Read More
A project to restore habitats and a barrier beach toBraddock Bay in Greece is getting $9.5 million in funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a proponent of the plan, will visit the Braddock Bay Marina at 10 a.m. Monday to announce the funding. He previously secured $575,000 to pay for… Read More
The Town of Sandwich is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District to conduct work in waters of the U.S. in conjunction with placing dredged and fill material at Town Neck Beach to restore the eroding beach in Sandwich, Mass. The proposed project involves work and the placement of… Read More
Scotland’s only local authority-operated harbour dredger is beginning to take shape in Moray’s biggest port. Councillors visited Buckie yesterday to get their first close-up glimpse of Moray’s new custom-built vessel. The £2.4million dredger is under construction at the Macduff Shipyard Ltd fabrication shed in the town and will be used to clear debris from seabeds… Read More
Sixteen easements signed by Toms River beach associations have been rejected by theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers because of language contained in so-called supplementary agreements, according to a report. The Asbury Park Press report says the easements, needed for beach replenishment work that will include dune construction along the oceanfront, include language in a supplementary… Read More
While the Port of Savannah deepening project has been underway for months, the actual dredging to make it deeper will begin soon. Curtis Foltz, the Executive Director of the Georgia Ports Authority, said Thursday that the first major dredging contract was awarded this week, $130 million. The Army Corps of Engineerssaid dredging the outer portion… Read More
After decades of contamination, environmental dredging is underway in the Black Rock Channel in an effort to clear it of toxins and sediment. “Black Rock Channel was considered dead zone as most of the rivers in Buffalo as was Lake Erie at one point but we’ve come a long way but we still have a… Read More
The Town of North Hempstead has received more than $4 million in federal funding to remove sediment buildup inManhasset Bay that officials said has blocked off parts of Hempstead Harbor from boaters. Following the 2012 storm, sediment buildup beneath the water near the Town Dock in Port Washington resulted in the town losing the moorings… Read More
Dredging in Cohasset Harbor is now scheduled to begin in October and to end 10 to 12 weeks later, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. The federal agency awarded a $1.7 million contract in July to H2H Associates of Troy, N.Y., to do the work, which consists of removing about 62,000 cubic yards of… Read More