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LANSING — EGLE officials announced a 28-day public comment period for the proposed removal of the Restrictions on Dredging Activities Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) from the Manistique River Area of Concern (AOC). Public review and comment is invited and will be accepted through Sept. 8. The Manistique River was declared an AOC in the mid-1980s,… Read More
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that cleared the U.S. Senate on Tuesday includes roughly $6 billion for Louisiana’s bridges and highway over the next five years. The legislation also puts $371 million into Louisiana’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program, which provides low-interest loans to finance projects to bring them into compliance… Read More
Potato-sized clumps of metal at the bottom of the deepest oceans might aid our fight against climate change, but mining these could also damage a world we know very little about. More than 150 years after French author Jules Verne released his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the classic tale of deep-sea exploration, we… Read More
NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 12, 2021) — There is widespread, bipartisan support for action to address Louisiana’s urgent land loss crisis through sediment diversions and other science-based restoration efforts, according to a new poll of coastal Louisiana voters released today by Global Strategy Group (GSG) and Environmental Defense Fund. These results are consistent with prior polls… Read More
Two senior marine construction executives provide an in-depth analysis of an innovative proposal to use electricity from floating wind turbines to power offshore oil and gas operations to reduce GHG. Floating offshore wind is widely acknowledged as the answer to exploit deepwater sites with abundant wind resources. For example, in 2017, the Hywind floating wind… Read More
New Orleans, Louisiana 2021-08-14 17:45:00 – Five years ago, on this day, hundreds of Lafayette parishioners stripped seat locks, pulled up sticky carpets, carried ruined furniture to the porch, and began recovery from a two-day storm in some areas. It rained 20 inches on the carpet. In Youngsville alone, 600 homes were flooded and one… Read More
Companies in the Dredging Market are facing issues in keeping their production facilities fully functional due to shortage of staff and resources amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. Get a hands-on over key drivers and threats to the Dredging Market to make your company future-ready post the pandemic. Avails out reports for exciting prices to learn new… Read More
A levee project that has been over 50 years in the making is finally a reality, as federal, state and local officials gathered on July 26 to break ground on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection system. The levee system will help provide 100-year hurricane and storm surge protection to 60,000 Louisianans in St…. Read More
The Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board today concluded their formal public hearing on the sinking of the liftboat SEACOR Power and the loss of all but six of its 19 crewmembers. Over the course of the hearings, which began August 2, the joint investigation board heard from 31 witnesses, who provided testimony into… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers provided an update Monday on how and when they plan to release water from Lake Okeechobee in the future. PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The Army Corps of Engineers provided an update Monday on how and when they plan to release water from Lake Okeechobee in the… Read More
The Oceanside City Council voted 4-1 this week to spend $1 million on plans and permits for beach groins and a sand bypass system that Mayor Esther Sanchez said the state will never approve. “I would prefer to spend this $1 million in getting sand on our beaches immediately,” said Sanchez, who voted no at… Read More
Corpus Christi, TX, USA – The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first carbon-neutral hydrogen production facility. Howard’s Javelina facility is strategically positioned in the… Read More
MOREHEAD CITY — A lawsuit filed last week challenges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to allow hopper dredging year-round in the harbors at the state ports in Wilmington and Morehead City. For decades, maintenance dredging using a hopper dredge was only performed during the winter months, when endangered marine life was less abundant in… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard released its 2020 Recreational Boating Statistics Report today, revealing that there were 767 boating fatalities nationwide in 2020, a 25.1 percent increase from 2019. From 2019 to 2020, the total number of accidents increased 26.3 percent (4,168 to 5,265), and the number of non-fatal injured victims increased 24.7 percent (2,559 to… Read More
Less manual handling means more workplace safety for a vessel’s crew. On Van Oord’s vessel Vox Amalia this is being provided by the debris removal platform. The automated debris removal platform now safely removes debris that will fall onto the deck after recovering the draghead of a trailing suction hopper dredger. A bulldozer blade pushes… Read More