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After more than a century of toxic pollution, Brooklyn’s infamous Gowanus Canal is finally being cleaned up. This November, the Environmental Protection Agency kicked off the first phase of its plan to dredge the entire length of this industrial waterway, scooping out the thick layer of “black mayonnaise” which has settled at its bottom. A… Read More
New studies of the Green Brook Flood Control Project and the renewal of a Rahway River flood study are included in a bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. The original Green Brook Flood Control plan called for the construction of detention basins on the Watchung Ridge in Berkeley Heights to slow the flow of… Read More
A project funded by the Department of Defense will make the NC shoreline more resilient against severe weather and protect fragile ecosystems. The Marine Corps is partnering with state and national organizations to form the longest living shoreline rehabilitation project on the North Carolina coast. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration,… Read More
MANTEO — After being stuck at home for nearly four years, the state-owned 16th century representative sailing ship Elizabeth II should soon be able to venture out from its dock alongside Roanoke Island Festival Park. Long-delayed dredging was set to begin Monday at the intersection of Roanoke Sound and Shallowbag Bay, but technical and weather… Read More
The Vineyard Wind project, a proposed 800-megawatt offshore wind energy installation, has been stalled as the company – Vineyard Wind LLC – withdrew its construction and operations plan from review by the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM), on 1 December, effectively halting the project’s progress. The withdrawal, announced in a letter to be… Read More
The Netherlands-headquartered Ventolines has signed on as the offshore wind expertise partner for the Mayflower Wind project in Massachusetts. Ventolines will provide transport and installation expertise on the substation, foundations, inter-array cables, and wind turbines. The Dutch company has also opened its first U.S. office in Boston with the aim of exploring new opportunities in… Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday created a new Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement Task Force to help the state navigate the conflicting interests within the basin, including fishers, landowners, the oil and gas industry, and communities at risk of flooding. The task force will also attempt to help integrate the use of the… Read More
Two Ellicott dredges were used for the dredging portion of the Lake Seminole Restoration project in Pinellas County, Florida. The dredges – an Ellicott 670HP 14” conventional cutterhead and an Ellicott 370HP 10” conventional cutterhead – worked in conjunction to remove accumulated organic sediment that had degraded the water quality of the lake. The 684-acre… Read More
Following up on our U.S. Offshore Wind Projects webinar held earlier this month as part of the Breakbulk Americas Digital Special, panelist Jonathan Zier from Crowley answers additional viewer questions that we didn’t have time to address during the session, primarily around the Jones Act and how it will affect development of this promising energy… Read More
The view looking north near 17th Street in Bradenton Beach Sept. 23 shows the beach widened by about 250 feet. The dredge pipe pushes sand pumped by a dredge about a quarter-mile offshore of the north end of Anna Maria Island to the beaches. A couple of beachgoers and a bevy of birds flank equipment… Read More
Washington D.C. – The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), which is merging into the American Clean Power Association (ACP) in January 2021, today released the following statement regarding recent developments from the U.S. Department of the Interior involving federal reviews of the Vineyard Wind project and the many other offshore wind projects in progress up… Read More
180,000 cubic meters of dredged material are currently being reused as filling material in the construction of the Port of Gothenburg’s next major investment. When the masses have been stabilized and solidified and further surface work have been completed, 140,000 square meters of new, long-awaited terminal space, will be available in the Port of Gothenburg…. Read More
In September, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot project delivered first power to the grid. In September, the first offshore wind farm in US federal waters delivered first power to the grid. The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project is the first approved by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the second… Read More
Friends of Firesteel has been working with a consultant to devise a plan for dredging project. After receiving a $10,000 boost from the Mitchell City Council, Friends of Firesteel is gearing up to kick start a fundraising campaign to support dredging Lake Mitchell. The local nonprofit organization — which was created more than a year… Read More
The sun was out, but the slanted light of fall did little to warm the small crowd gathered at the Carroll Street Bridge in Gowanus the morning of Nov. 16. But despite winds that whipped bare hands and quickly chilled the hot cider they held in paper cups, members of Gowanus Dredgers, an organization that… Read More