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North Wildwood Beach Replenishment Is Finished! Purchase your Dredge Shirts – https://thewildwoodboardwalk.etsy.com If you blinked, you would have missed how quickly the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and its contractors rebuilt the beach. Three weeks ago, NJDOT started the North Wildwood Emergency Beach Nourishment Dredging Project and now it is completed! The Wildwood Video… Read More
RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia’s fishery managers have lifted the longstanding ban on dredging for blue crabs during the winter in the Chesapeake Bay, a seismic policy shift that drew strong criticism from their Maryland counterparts and conservationists. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted 5–4 on June 25 to repeal the 16-year prohibition on winter dredging. The… Read More
CHATHAM – While the Stage Harbor entrance channel awaits dredging by the Army Corps of Engineers, the town is preparing a 10-year renewal of its comprehensive permit dredging. The Corps hopper dredge Murden was scheduled to arrive in Stage Harbor today (June 27), but mechanical problems diverted it to a shipyard in New York City… Read More
Around 6 billion tons of marine sand is being dug up each year in a growing practice that a UN agency said is unsustainable and can wipe out local marine life irreversibly. Sand is the most exploited natural resource in the world after water but its extraction for use in industries like construction is only… Read More
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District announced an update on a dredging and marsh restoration project at the mouth of the Salem River in New Jersey. Dredging operations will begin in early July as part of contract that was awarded to Cottrell Contracting Corporation in December 2023. The contractor will dredge… Read More
MANISTEE, Mich. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, will begin dredging the Manistee Harbor federal navigational channel June 27 to remove shoaling preventing deep-drafting commercial traffic. On April 23, a commercial vessel attempted to enter Manistee Harbor drafting 19 feet but were halted due to conditions. Surveys found the harbor was unable to… Read More
House Committee Passes Biennial Bill on Strong Bipartisan Vote WASHINGTON, DC— 6-27-24, U.S. Representative John Garamendi (D-CA08) voted to pass the “Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2024” (H.R.8812) in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure by a bipartisan vote of 61 to 2. The full House of Representatives is expected to take up the… Read More
In grateful appreciation of the many regional partners that aided in extinguishing the Oceanside Pier blaze on April 25, 2024, the City of Oceanside held a special recognition lunch today at the Pier Amphitheater. Due to collective coordinated actions, there were no injuries, and 93 percent of the beloved Pier was successfully saved from destruction…. Read More
As the planet warms, atoll nations like the Maldives seemed doomed to shrink. Scientists have begun to tell a surprising new story. We humans have settled in all sorts of precarious environments: parched deserts, barren tundra, high mountains. None are precarious in quite the same way as atolls, the tiny, low-lying islands that dot the… Read More
TARPON SPRINGS — City commissioners voiced concerns about the $5.25 million asking price, but they voted unanimously to let residents decide whether to purchase a 14.28-acre river dredge spoil site. The vacant property, used by the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge sediment from the Anclote River, is on the east side of L&R Industrial… Read More
LORAIN — The Black River Dredge Material Reuse Facility is nearly complete. City Council visited the site along the Black River during its meeting on Monday. It will be operational by August for the upcoming dredge cycle. The facility is the first in the country, spanning about 70 acres behind U.S. Steel along the riverfront…. Read More
The sound of a three-mile-long pipe pumping 100 dump trucks worth of sand onto the coastline filled the air for two and a half months in the town of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina in early 2024. It was part of a beach nourishment project, meant to replenish and widen beaches lost to erosion or storms. Paid… Read More
Dublin (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “United States Dredging Market By Region, Competition, Forecast and Opportunities, 2019-2029F” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The United States dredging market has experienced a remarkable growth phase, with projections indicating the trend will continue through 2029. Propelled by an array of drivers, including substantial infrastructure development, coastal protection initiatives, and rising… Read More
Arcadis has delivered more than 7,000 EV charging stations around the world HOUSTON – Arcadis, a leading global design and consultancy organization for natural and built assets, today announced the completion of bp’s (NYSE: BP) latest high-speed EV charging site at the company’s North America headquarters in Houston, Texas. The new bp pulse station is the… Read More
The Dredge Potter, owned and operated by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, has begun the dredging season along the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. They started in the Grafton area and will clear out the channel up there before moving on to the Perry Island area, which is also near Grafton…. Read More