The Christie Administration, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, today announced the award of a $38 million contract to reconstruct beaches, stormwater outfalls and implement modifications to existing groins in the area of Loch Arbour and Deal in Monmouth County. The contract, part of the Administration’s post-Sandy storm resiliency effort and part… Read More
More than $2.1 million will help continue the cleanup of contaminated sediment from industrial waste in the Manistique River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The recently announced funding for the state Department of Environmental Quality is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A statement from Michigan Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters says the money… Read More
Container cargo through JaxPort could triple by 2035. Nearly 14,000 new jobs could be created. The regional economic impact could top $850 million per year. But before that can happen, $684.2 million must be spent to deepen JaxPort’s shipping channel. A bit less if the scope of the project is scaled back. The first installment… Read More
Opponents of a controversial $12 million dredging project for the local harbor hailed news Wednesday that state and federal officials had withdrawn their permit application from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. But an official with the Maine Department of Transportation, which is co-sponsoring the project said the withdrawal was likely temporary and that a… Read More
A $2.1 million coastal dredging and eco-system restoration project in Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor, paid for by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Hurricane Sandy Resiliency grants program, is on schedule and on budget. That news comes from a July 22 report by project engineer Jason Worth P.E. of T&M Associates. Work is scheduled… Read More
Between a private dock and Bucksport Marina is the site of the proposed marine industrial park in the Bucksport community of Horry County on Aug. 27. Economic developers would like to see a yacht manufacturer at the stie. Grand Strand business leaders hope construction will begin within a year on area once permitting is issued… Read More
Flagstone Property Group’s work to build the area’s first deep water marina for super-yachts includes creation of an artificial reef. Flagstone is developing a corner of city-owned Watson Island into a multi-million dollar resort called Island Gardens. The developer said this week it has begun installation of the Brickell Mitigation Reef Site, designed to offset… Read More
Ho Chi Minh City authorities have decided to spend VND950 billion (US$41.8 million) building three large-scale reservoirs in the most flood-prone areas of three districts. With a total area of 100ha, the three proposed reservoirs are expected to accumulate tens of millions of cubic meters of water and resolve the flooding problem in District 4,… Read More
Dredging work in the shipping channel of Beaufort Inlet concluded in the final week of August, but shoaling has already started again there, according to Capt. Andrew Midgett with the Morehead City Pilots Association. “We’re in a little bit better shape than we were, but we’re already starting to see some shoaling taking place again,”… Read More
Mozambique’s Minister of Transport and Communications Carlos Mesquita has said the dredging of the port of Quelimane, in the central province of Zambezia, is due to begin later in September and will last until January 2016.Once the work is completed around 320,000 cubic metres of sediment are expected to have been removed, Mesquita announced in… Read More
Plans to dredge a nearly 6 mile channel at Port Said as well as develop the entire region surrounding theNew Suez Canal remain on hold, reports suggest. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
A project which took loans from three cities – Duncan, Lawton and Comanche – and a grant or two is now underway for Waurika Lake. The dredging project, under the direction of Wynn Construction, has started the first stage of the projects, Waurika Lake Master Conservancy District Manager Dave Taylor said. “At the end of… Read More
State officials have confirmed the Double Creek Channel, one of two ways southern Ocean County boaters access Barnegat Inlet and theAtlantic Ocean, will be dredged after a two-season closure. The channel runs from the 42 buoy marker inBarnegat Bay to another channel that runs alongHigh Bar Harbor which ultimately leads to the inlet. It has… Read More
The dredging of the port of Quelimane, in Mozambique’s Zambézia province, is due to begin this month and will last until January 2016. Once the work is completed around 320,000 cubic metres of sediment are expected to have been removed, Mozambique’s Minister of Transport and Communications said. Minister Carlos Mesquita, who was speaking in the… Read More
The end of August was an exciting time for Clay Township, as tons of heavy equipment was brought to the ferry dock waiting to be transported to the island. The amphibious dump trucks are mobile vehicles equipped to dig out dirt and sediment that accumulate in drains. The Krispin Drain has been impassable for years,… Read More