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Expect the dredging of the Eastpoint Channel and Two Mile to begin in October. But definitely by Christmas. Waylon Register, a civil engineer who serves as site manager of Panama City office of the Army Corps of Engineers, said Mike Hooks Inc. is in the process of working on a project on the Tennessee Tombigbee… Read More
Corps of Engineers insists on land exchange or $14.5-million ‘mitigation’ fee WELLFLEET — The dredging of the mooring field at Wellfleet Harbor will not happen this fall. The final phase of the $20-million three-year project to clear silt and muck from the harbor was supposed to begin in September but has been postponed for a… Read More
The nesting was reportedly made possible through a beach ‘renourishment’ project that began in 2015. A Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle, the world’s rarest and most endangered sea turtle species, recently made the Galveston shoreline its home, laying eggs on a new beach near the corner of Seawall and 86th Street. This rare sea turtle species—which… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has awarded a $3.17 million contract to White Lake Dock and Dredge, Inc., a Small Business out of North Shores, Michigan, for maintenance dredging and southern jetty rehabilitation for the Fishing Creek Federal navigation channel. The project, in coordination with the Town of Chesapeake Beach, consists of dredging… Read More
The Charleston Harbor Post 45 Deepening Project looks to address transportation inefficiencies by deepening and widening Charleston Harbor to allow for growth in the shipping industry with the influx of Post-Panamax ships calling on port in the Lowcountry. The project will provide over $169 M in average annual benefits. The Charleston District has been working… Read More
Joint Base Langley-Eustis’ Third Port, the U.S. Army’s pier complex sitting where Skiffe’s Creek meets the James River, recently completed a multi-month dredging project. The dredging, a 24/7 operation taking place April 18 – June 15, was part of a regularly scheduled maintenance, which occurs every five years. “Five years is just a historical mark,”… Read More
To prevent damage from storms like Sandy in 2012 and Isabel, a watershed flood event for Baltimore in 2003, the Army Corps of Engineers has been studying for years whether widespread sea walls or massive storm surge barriers would help. A new plan it is floating for communities along Patapsco River shores includes neither. The… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $4.7 million to improve navigation into Ellsworth’s harbor after years of shifting bottom have reduced some passages to about a foot of clearance at low tide. Ellsworth City Manager Glenn Moshier confirmed that the corps put the Union River dredging project in its latest work plan and… Read More
For Schuylkill rowers, the second dredge will hopefully be the charm. The Texas-based contractor Dredgit has begun dredging the portion of the river in front of Boathouse Row — the first phase of a $13 million project that will later include the storied national racecourse farther upstream. The company will pump the spoils over Fairmount… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN) program was recently recognized by the U.K. Environment Agency. The EWN program’s “International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management (NNBF)” received the U.K. Environment Agency’s Flood and Coast Excellence Award for International Excellence. “The NNBF Guidelines are the next step… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected five companies to compete for environmental remediation task orders under a firm-fixed-price contract worth up to $100 million over five years, according to a Department of Defense notice published Monday. Contractors will support customers serviced by USACE Alaska District. Solicitation documents released in February note the multiple-award acquisition program… Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has awarded a $103 million contract to Westinghouse Government Services of South Carolina for the decommissioning, dismantling and disposal of the deactivated SM-1A nuclear power plant at Fort Greely, Alaska. “The Corps of Engineers has worked diligently to award the contract for this very complex and… Read More
Col. Adam Czekanski has been in command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District for a little over a year. As he looks back on the past year, he reflects on the accomplishments of district personnel who manage the 23 navigation locks and dams, 16 multi-purpose flood damage reduction reservoirs, 80 local flood… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has released the new Alvin R. Bush Dam Master Plan (“2022 Master Plan”) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) that will serve as the guiding document for decision making at the lake for next 15 to 25 years. This revision is a part of a larger, USACE-wide… Read More
On Aug. 4, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District awarded a contract to SNA Contracting from Shreveport, LA. to pave recreation areas at Sam Rayburn and Town Bluff Lakes. “This work is being completed under supplemental funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” said Sam Rayburn Lake Manager Reece Nelson. With… Read More