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Citing an unworkable time line for progress, the JAX Chamber is pulling out of a highly touted truce it helped craft with an environmental watchdog that was intended to avoid a potentially time-consuming court battle over the controversial project to dredge the St. Johns River. The chamber’s exit from the unlikely alliance — a fragile… Read More
GEELONG Port is getting an $8 million upgrade, including significant dredging at the hands of a New Zealand construction firm. Heron Construction Company’s 52m dredge, the Machiavelli, will arrive at Refinery Pier in September and spend up to eight weeks conducting excavations to expand the port. The underwater mud and sludge from the operation will… Read More
Solent Refit, the Southampton water, UK-based refit yard has plans to develop berths for larger vessels alongside its floating pontoon. Currently the yard can berth vessels up to around 60 metres but draft limitations restrict the access for larger craft. Now they are initiating a dredging programme that will provide deeper water alongside. Solent Refit… Read More
The ever-changing beach replenishment schedule for Long Beach Island is continuing to evolve as one of two dredge boats involved in the project is receiving repairs. The dredge boat Padre Island was receiving repairs offshore recently while the Dodge Island was continuing dredging operations, sucking up sand and delivering it to island beaches. By August… Read More
Multiple residents and visitors of Beach Haven stood before the town council during the regular monthly meeting Monday, Aug. 10, to express their concerns regarding the borough’s beach replenishment, adding that many of them like the beaches “just the way they are.” The project, which was last said to begin shortly after Labor Day, has… Read More
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