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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has committed $4 million to putting sand from channel dredging work into an area where it could help feed the eroding beaches of Dauphin Island. Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier said that while the move wasn’t a magic cure-all for the health of the barrier island’s fragile shores, it… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Texas General Land Office will soon consult officials from other countries, local experts and public comments as they refine their Coastal Texas Study, a plan to improve and protect the Texas Gulf Coast from hurricanes and other devastating storms. Both groups on Dec. 18 held their final public… Read More
Commercial seabed mining seems imminent, highlighting the urgent need for coherent, effective policy to safeguard the marine environment. Reconciling seabed mining with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will be difficult because minerals extraction will have irreversible consequences that could lead to the loss of habitats, species and ecosystems services. A dialog needs to take… Read More
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 14 December 2018 – Her Majesty Queen Máxima performed the christening ceremony for Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger Vox Amalia in Rotterdam this afternoon in presence of 1,400 employees and guests. This was also the final event in the celebrations marking Van Oord’s 150th anniversary in 2018. The vessel was moored… Read More
The first time I visited Satkhira, the tide country, was as a student of Environmental Science. And I remember returning with pages upon pages of focus group discussions with villagers who were living in homes that had been cut off from nearly everything because of water-logging. They talked of a life constantly battling a disaster…. Read More
Sandwich’s effort to quell its beach erosion problem is getting a boost from the town of Bourne. Sandwich Town Manager George “Bud” Dunham said the town would receive roughly 5,000 cubic yards of surplus sand that would go toward padding an exposed area on Town Neck Beach hit hard by a string of nor’easters earlier… Read More
TMaterial dredged from Barnegat Bay channels to make navigation safer will be used to rebuild an island suffering from erosion. The SandPaper reports that New Jersey Department of Transportation will deposit dredged material onto the 4.3-acre Parker Island, located in the Barnegat Bay west of Long Beach Island’s Beach Haven. The placement of the dredged… Read More
A notice of intent has been approved by the city’s Conservation Commission to dredge the Eastern County ditch (once known as Diamond Creek), which runs from the old Wonderland property to Revere Street and in the Northshore Road area. During last Wednesday’s meeting of the Conservation Commission, Eurovest Development that owns Waterfront Square and has… Read More
With dredging works expected to be completed within the first year of the concession, mega vessels will soon be able to enter the Port of Guayaquil – guaranteeing a new authorized draft of 12.5 meters at high tide, and 7.5 meters at the Guayas River. The “Los Goles,” a famous rock causing a bottleneck in… Read More
At Thursday’s high tide, a tiny tugboat named Bonnie pulled a red barge through Great Egg Harbor Bay. It headed to Beesleys Point 2 miles away to be filled with up to 300 tons of rock before returning to Shooting Island, an eroding wetland within eyesight of Ocean City’s back bay. As shore towns grapple… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently held an Oregon Coast Jetties Industry Day, gearing up for a series of jetty and breakwater projects expected to keep construction crews working through 2022. The projects include the complete rehabilitation of three jetties at the mouth of the Columbia River; repair of the Tillamook Jetties; the Coos… Read More
According to N.C. Ports, the Port of Wilmington, plus inland terminals in Charlotte and Greensboro, link the state’s consumers, businesses and industry to world markets to attract new business and industry while receiving no direct taxpayer subsidy. Port activities contribute statewide to 76,000 jobs and $700 million each year in state and local tax revenues…. Read More
Once works are completed, expected by year end, this will allow easier access by ultra large vessels – dubbed AGF class in German – of over 330 m in length and 45 m breadth, it said. A 20 m widening of the fairway between Störbogen and Wedel will create a zone 7 km long and… Read More
THE Ministry of Waterways and Environment has big plans for the new year. Minister Dr Mahendra Reddy said the plans included major works to protect Fiji’s coastal areas, riverbanks, drainage works, river dredging and de-silting. Dr Reddy said the government had allocated quite a substantial amount of money to increase Fiji’s resilience to climate/water-related events,… Read More
India needs to open up its dredging market to boost trade by its major ports which at present cannot handle very large vessels in absence of proper draft depth, government think tank Niti Aayog has said. More competition mainly from global players in dredging activities would help increase and maintain draft depth at ports and… Read More