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Rehabilitation of the Government Shipping Service Jetty at Walu Bay in Suva is currently underway. This includes improvement in infrastructure and dredging of the water ways. Permanent Secretary for Transport Francis Kean says this is necessary to improve the working environment and provide better service to the people. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The nearly $6 million project to restore wildlife habitat at the northern end of Milford Pond through the dredging of material from the southern portion remains on track to finish next April. Crews from Palmer Federal Constructors, the Lawrence-based contractor hired for the restoration project, is expected to ramp up dredging in September, working weekends… Read More
Dredging start date will be more like mid-September than early September, so after the Labor day holiday; the dredge pipeline is still scheduled to be placed above ground cutting off pathway access between the harbor and Mason Avenue, but other options including burial are still being considered; USACE advises all questions and requests for public… Read More
The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) at the weekend said the N25 billion contract for the dredging of River Benue which was awarded by the federal government last year would commence soon. Acting Managing Director of NIWA, Danladi Ibrahim, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Lokoja on the activities of the agency, noted that… Read More
The proposed Balpahari Dam by the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), which is crucial to West Bengal in averting floods, is awaiting the state’s green nod. “The detailed project report for Balpahari had been sent to government of West Bengal for approval,” DVC Chairman Andrew WK Langstieh told PTI. West Bengal had blamed DVC for excessive… Read More
Investing / buying a dredge can be a scary process. In the past 5 years alone I have seen a dozen different dredge builders surface around the world and throw up web pages that make them look bigger than they actually are. It is important that you do your due diligence before selecting a dredge… Read More
Snug Harbor will be dredged this year, engineers said as they laid out a plan to address lagoon and back bay dredging before community members during a town hall meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25 at the senior center. “We’re here to be your advocates and we really hope to make this work,” said Carole Beske, project… Read More
After years of waiting, a much-anticipated dredging of back bays and lagoons in Ocean City is likely to begin just after Labor Day. The bad news is that only Snug Harbor can be dredged this year, and it appears that the problem is twice as bad as previously anticipated. Representatives from ACT Engineering and Anchor… Read More
Even as the Jacksonville Port Authority and city leaders continue to plod along in their quest to find money to deepen the St. Johns River, recent successes bode well for the local port’s future. A parade of 18-wheelers, all quite naked without their containers, idle bumper to bumper in the shadow of diesel cranes on… Read More
Bob Johnson has little hope that an environmental problem will be fixed by the massive hole that’s been dug at the intersection toward the end of his block. Crews have been out there for several weeks digging to remove a pair of manhole vaults — the latest effort in nearly 15 years of work aimed… Read More
Muck dredged from the Eau Gallie River is composed of sediments that washed in from the surrounding watershed — not smelly sewage or toxic industrial wastes like in the polluted Little Calumet River near Chicago, John Windsor said. “How did they get there? We did it. It’s our responsibility. We need to clean this up,”… Read More
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Investment has proposed the city People’s Committee to approve a radial canal cleanup project under Public Private Partnership. Japanese loans will cover VND3,500 billion (US$156 million) out of the project’s total capital of VND5,106 billion (US$227.37 million), the body suggested. The project, developed by a joint… Read More
Brick Mayor John Ducey said state officials have told him the township, along with neighboring Mantoloking, will be prioritized in the timing of a planned beach and dune replenishment project that has been stalled nearly a year by legal wranglings. The mayor faced questions from concerned residents Tuesday night at a township council meeting held in… Read More
Work to bury huge sandbags to reinforce an eroded ocean beach in Montauk is scheduled to begin in October, despite a lawsuit from environmentalists seeking to stop the project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said. The $8.4 million emergency plan would place 14,000 “geotextile” sandbags — each weighing 1.7 tons — along 3,100 feet… Read More
Port managers, local seafood processors and Pacific County residents aiming to keep local issues at the forefront of future policy and federal budget discussions met with congressional and senate staff at a round-table discussion at the Port of Ilwaco Aug. 24. Staff from the offices of U.S. Rep.Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-WA, 3rd Dist., U.S. Sen…. Read More