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In February, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) announced that construction is complete on the Oyster Bayou Marsh Creation and Terracing project in Cameron Parish. Construction on the project began in December 2016. Located west of the Calcasieu Ship Channel near the Gulf of Mexico, this project used dredged sediment from the Gulf… Read More
KANKAKEE — Bob Lathim says he was excited when he and his wife bought their house south of Aroma Park in September 2017. It’s in a neighborhood with well-kept homes shaded by large, mature trees. The Kankakee River flows along the east side of the subdivision. “This is a great place to raise a family… Read More
Out in Jekyll Creek, work continues on the first dredging of that part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in more than 20 years. Out on a state Department of Natural Resources boat, the depth finder put the situation clear — at low tide, the depth is only around 5 feet. If you’ve been out in… Read More
4H Construction Corporation of Cleveland, Mississippi, began removing shoal material from Horseshoe Cove and the turning basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District awarded the $2,067,025 contract in December 2018. The dredging will return this area to its authorized depth of 6 feet, with 1 foot of allowable over-depth. The project is expected… Read More
After years of neglect and the second-wettest winter on record, the San Rafael Canal is in more urgent need of dredging than ever, Marin lawmakers, city officials and local activists say. The torrential rain that beat on Marin over the stormy season has flushed high volumes of sediment down hillsides into the creek, shoaling the… Read More
International environmental non-profit, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), has set a new ambition to unlock up to $1.6bn in the restoration and conservation of marine environments, through a $40m (£30m) “Blue Bonds for Ocean Conservation”. TNC will aim to protect up to 1.5 million square miles of ocean habitats, which in turn will benefit around 43… Read More
Somers Point’s New Transient Marina Anticipated Completion in Summer 2019 Somers Point, NJ – April 11, 2019 – Construction of a new bayfront marina at the end of Higbee Avenue in Somers Point is underway with completion expected in the summer of 2019. Wickberg Marina Contracting, Inc. of Belford, NJ recently completed the dredging phase… Read More
HOLMES BEACH – The situation at Spring Lake isn’t likely to resolve itself and commissioners want to explore all of their options before deciding how to proceed with a cleanup. During an April 9 meeting, City Engineer Lynn Burnett and fellow LTA Engineers representative Eron Wasserman gave commissioners an update on the effort to clean… Read More
OTTUMWA — Most items brought to the city council during its formal meetings include a vote. Two big ones from Tuesday night didn’t. City staff briefed council members on the planned streetscape project and a set of possible additions to the final renovations at the Beach, but didn’t ask members to make a decision on… Read More
The Port of Morgan City is requesting emergency federal funds to combat extreme shoaling in the Atchafalaya River caused by massive amounts of sediment moved into the area by high water. Officials anticipate the shoaling will only worsen as the river levels drop and more sediment is deposited. The Atchafalaya has been above the 6-foot… Read More
None of the three bills that would have protected Man O’ War Shoal from oyster shell dredging made it out of committee during the 2019 session of the Maryland General Assembly, disappointing sport and conservation fishing groups as well as upper Bay watermen. This live-bottom area is the largest relic oyster reef in the upper… Read More
By Heiko Osterchrist- Associate Publisher, DredgeWire Anchored by an expert team of professionals, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) completed the Big Bend dredging project in Tampa, Florida twelve months ahead of schedule. GLDD team leaders Russ Zimmerman, South Atlantic Area Manager, Lynn Nietfeld, Corporate Project Sponsor and Project Manage Tim Kremer kept the… Read More
FALCONER — The shadow of the Burtis Bay fish kill lingers in the form of a remaining weed mass. With a jar of lake sludge in hand, Celoron residents Mike and Peggy Newell continued to make their plight known to the Ellicott Town Board. Monday’s town meeting was the stage for multiple lake matters. Town… Read More
LOOMIS LAKE — Maybe not complete victory — but significant success. That’s the mood of those involved in cleaning up the weed-infested Loomis Lake. Concerns about the potential loss of the Long Beach Peninsula’s largest inland lake for recreation and fears about falling property values were among spurs to action, which has taken place over… Read More
Lake Balboa was the main topic of discussion at the April Property Owners Association lakes committee meeting. Lakes manager Brad Meredith’s report, was given by committee chair Bill Goodwin because Meredith had been on the job until the wee hours of the morning doing fish shocking census work. The report said hydraulic dredging will take… Read More