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Federal officials defended their decision Friday to allow General Electric to begin taking apart its PCB processing facility on the Hudson River, even though a company plan to the Environmental Protection Agency to shutter the facility has not been acted upon or even made public. “Although some dismantling of decontaminated equipment is under way —… Read More
Who will eventually perform the necessary additional navigational channel dredging in the Hudson River from the federal dam in Troy to Fort Edward has been a sticking point through all the contentious years of negotiations with General Electric over the removal of their PCB contamination of the same stretch of the waterway. GE managed to… 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
The dredge Yaquina has yet to perform maintenance dredging on the Coquille River bar. The Yaquina had orders to start mid-July. Excessive north wind and ocean swell were not conducive to getting the work done at that time. There have been opportunities since then, particularly the week of Aug. 10, as she was scheduled to… Read More
Port of Tauranga is in the early stages of reaping the benefits of its expansion in the North and South Islands, posting revenue and profit gains for its year to June. As the country’s largest port, by volume, POT is beginning its channel-deepening programme in October. It expects 6500TEU (20-foot equivalent container units) vessels by… Read More
North Topsail Beach Town leaders are trying to find money to pay for the next beach re-nourishment project. The Town completed Phase One in 2013 which restored the northern 1.5 miles. Phase Five which restored the southern approximate 3.5 miles of shoreline was completed this spring. The town said the next part of the project… Read More
The Queensland Government has released the third draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) into the controversial Abbot Point port expansion near Bowen in the state’s north. The expansion will enable coal to be shipped from proposed mining projects in the Galilee Basin, like the $16 billion Carmichael mine. The EIS proposes the spoil from dredging the… Read More
President and chief executive officer of the Port Authority of Jamaica Professor Gordon Shirley yesterday declared that plans for the development of a transshipment port in the Goat Islands areas of the Portland Bight are not dead. Noting that the Port Authority would view the Port of Kingston as potentially including shipping activities at the… Read More
Taking your boat for a spin on Mara or Shuswap Lake is one ofSicamous’ main attractions, but finding a place to tie up your boat in the Sicamous Narrows is becoming a problem. Locals says low water levels and silt are drastically cutting down on the number of usable moorage spaces and some are now… Read More
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