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In the times of climate change a heat record chases the next, the poles and glaciers will melt, the water in the oceans heats up – and as a consequence the sea level will rise. Low-lying island States and low-lying coastal regions threaten to sink in the water. The oceans grow and the dry surface… Read More
The Orleans selectmen met in Lakeville, Mass., last Friday. It wasn’t because they grew tired of the tasteful décor of the Nauset Room at town hall or wanted to bond during a road trip. They met at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife office there to interact with an alphabet soup of state and federal regulators… Read More
Boaters, anglers, beachgoers, homeowners and businesses all gain from Suffolk’s end-of-the-year dredging, which cleared channels and built up beaches, officials said. The county spent $7 million deepening 16 waterways deemed priorities in six towns, County Executive Steve Bellone said in a statement Friday. “Now our commercial fishing and boating industries can have greater confidence when… Read More
Lake Audubon’s dredging project is slated to start as soon as Feb. 1. The Reston Association announced today (Jan. 18) that it plans to hire Lake Services, Inc. to dredge the accumulated sediment from the lake’s main coves. Dredging could begin as early as Feb. 1 with expected completion by the end of April. The… Read More
Sand filling of long-awaited Bay Container Terminal in Chattogram has started while construction of boundary wall will begin soon. Chattogram Port Authority has already started dredging of 68 acres of land acquired from private owners by Chattogram District administration on November 29 last year spending Tk 468 crore. The fencing of the area would start… Read More
Leaders in Surf City are weighing options on how to replace the thousands of cubic yards of sand that was lost after Hurricane Florence swept through the area. Hundreds of people flocked to Town Hall for Friday morning’s town council meeting where officials revealed that an estimated 1.8 million cubic yards of sand was washed… Read More
Removing four dams from the Snake River won’t help orcas, salmon, the environment or the economy, the head of the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association says. Kristin Meira, executive director of the association, which includes ports, businesses, public agencies and individuals that depend on the region’s rivers, cited figures from federal agencies to counter environmental groups’… Read More
The renourishment project on Pleasure Island will be getting underway soon. According to a Facebook post by Councilman Steve Shuttleworth, a pre-construction meeting was held Wednesday at the US Army Corps of Engineer’s office for the Coastal Storm Damage Reduction project. Weeks Marine is the contracting company that will perform the work for both Carolina… Read More
The under construction Payra Sea Port in Patuakhali eventually might have to be abandoned as high sedimentation has been turning depth of the Bay of Bengal shallow, warned German scientist Hermann Kudrass. Well known as professor HR Kudrass he has been studying the sedimentation process in the bay and delta subsidence for over last two… Read More
The African Union says the continent’s infrastructure expansion should involve easing transport on inland water bodies. AU Special Envoy for Transport and Infrastructure Raila Odinga on Friday said the East African Community, for instance, should continue investing in Lake Victoria transportation projects to expand trade in the bloc. Mr Odinga, said Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania… Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commissioned the Baro Inland Water Port in Niger State, which is the first inland port in northern Nigeria. LEADERSHIP Sunday reports that the contract for the inland port, valued at N6billion, was originally awarded in 2011/12 but was abandoned until Buhari’s government forged ahead to deliver it. President Buhari, who commissioned… Read More
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush says he will do what he can to make sure sand dredged from the Mansfield Cut can be used to help re-nourish South Padre Island’s beach. In a project costing more than ten million dollars, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is slated to dredge Port Mansfield’s ship channel… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, just announced it is going to use dredged material to improve habitat on the north end of Lake Pepin by building new islands. It’s a partnership involving the Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance and the Wisconsin DNR. Lake Pepin is the largest lake on the entire Mississippi… Read More
Goa tourism development corporation (GTDC) will shortly write to the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) asking it to dredge the Santa Monica jetty and hand it over without further delay. GTDC, an official said, had handed over parking space of the jetty to GSIDC on the condition that it will hand it over back… Read More
The DP World facility, situated in British Columbia, Canada, is one of three container terminals at the Port of Vancouver, accounting for 20% of its total freight movement. In order to increase its annual container handling capacity from 900,000 TEU to 1.5 million, a project has been launched to reconfigure and extend the terminal’s surface…. Read More