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A CAD3 million (USD2.3 million) riverbed dredging project will take place at Britannia Beach, a popular leisure site in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, from July to October this year. The 110 m by 80 m section of the Ottawa River will see around 9000 m3 of sand removed, which the City of Ottawa’s Susan Johns, manager,… Read More
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Sand dredged from the Kihei Boat Ramp harbor has been delivered to Kamaole Beach Park I in this photo taken Feb. 18. The sand had been stored in the upper parking lot at the boat ramp from July to November, over the course of the dredging project. The approximately 4,500 yards of sand was moved… Read More
The state has been planting native bulrush weeds at Lake Trafford to provide better habitat for bass and smaller fish, after an effort to rid the lake of an invasive plant killed most of them a few years ago. The largest fresh water lake south of Okeechobee was once an oxygen-starved, pea-green mess until efforts… Read More
This bird’s eye view came to us from Chris Driscoll of Driscoll Drones. “J.F. Brennan Company dredges the sandbar between Massey’s Channel and Middle Island,” said Driscoll. “This will provide boaters with easy access to IR Bay from Massey’s Channel. The dredging of that area began Jan. 10 and was completed around Jan 24. The… Read More
BUFFALO, NY – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District (USACE) substantially completed the Stanford Run ecosystem restoration project located within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) in Summit County, Ohio, in early January 2020. The Buffalo District restored nearly 1,200 feet of a small stream within CVNP named Stanford Run under the original… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst (R) went to bat for Iowa farmers to get the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to approve the Mississippi dredge program, and the Corps has decided to fund the project. Ernst says this will put more money in the pockets of farmers from Iowa and other states…. Read More
The impact of the outbreak of the coronavirus is estimated to be costing the shipping industry USD 350 million a week in lost revenues, according to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS). The virus outbreak is having a significant impact on the shipping sector and the industry is working closely with the World Health Organization… Read More
ABS Group of Companies, Inc. has launched a new set of safety and risk-based services to support compliance to the 2021 Cyber Risk Management (CRM) guidelines recommended by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The IMO CRM guidelines encourage maritime organizations to address cyber risk management in a safety management system (SMS) no later than the… Read More
When it comes to the Manasota Key beach renourishment project, Sarasota County commissioners have some thorny decisions to make Tuesday regarding their portion of the project. Chief among those decisions is how to reduce the share of the project costs paid by individual property owners within the project boundaries. When 23 property owners in the… Read More
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI In simple terms, it is described as a “bathtub.” But this isn’t anything like the bathtub in your home. Instead of filling up with water, it will capture large amounts of muddy sediment in Snug Harbor, one of Ocean City’s most troublesome spots for muck and silt accumulating on the bottom of… Read More
Complex technical requirements have delayed by some three years the completion of a new €98 million state-of-the-art oceanographic and fisheries research ship in Germany, reports Tom Todd. The newbuild, a replacement for the nearly 30-year- old, 63m x 15m Walther Herwig III, was awarded to the Dutch shipyard group Damen in March 2017 and is… Read More
SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. Massey’s Ditch was last dredged in 2002. Mariners say the waterway had become unsafe and that boats often ran aground, especially at low tide. The 100 foot wide channel is on schedule to be dredged by the end of this week. “It had a lot of very shallow areas,” says J.F. Brennan… Read More
The turbines might be in the Outer Banks, but a planned wind farm in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, could have a huge economic impact in Virginia Beach and Hampton Roads, according to project leaders. The Kitty Hawk wind farm project, which would provide enough power for 700,000 homes, has cleared several obstacles on the way… Read More
Ontonagon — The Army Corps of Engineers amended its 2020 budget to include dredging for the Ontonagon Harbor this summer, according to a Monday report to the Ontonagon Village Council. Joe Erickson, Ontonagon Village manager told the council that he has received an amended work plan from the Corps, which shows an additional $1.1 million… Read More
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), at a news conference in Manhattan Sunday, said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was planning to pull crews and dredges from the South Shore of Long Island to work on a nonemergency project near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Sen. Chuck Schumer blasted the U.S. Army Corps of… Read More