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The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a Marine Accident Brief on the March 29, 2019 incident in which the heavy lift vessel MV Hawk slammed into an electrical test barge at Ingalls Shipbuilding, pushing the barge into the newbuild destroyer USS Delbert Black (DDG 119). The MV Hawk, which was delivering a Chinese built… Read More
While President Donald Trump’s budget released Monday proposed cuts to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects in 2021 and beyond, Army Corps the same day delivered to Congress its fiscal year 2020 Work Plan for the Army Civil Works program with a list of specific projects that will receive funding. “I am very happy to… Read More
PETALUMA, CA — Federal funding to the tune of $9.7 million has been allotted for the long-awaited dredging of the Petaluma River, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman announced this week. The Democratic congressman from San Rafael also said Monday that $1.3 million has been set aside for preparation of the San Rafael Canal for dredging. “Local… Read More
The FY21 budget provides $0 for construction of ongoing priority navigation projects cost-shared through the Inland Waterways Trust Fund (IWTF); cuts funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works Mission by 22% ($5.967 billion, a $1.7 billion decrease from the FY20 enacted level); and proposes $1.8 million in new user fees on commercial… Read More
The project to restore the sand along Dune Road, just west of the Shinnecock Inlet, was supposed to begin Monday but was postponed due to gusting wind and rain. As News 12 has reported, a series of storms last fall washed away the dunes causing the ocean to crest over the roadway. Stephanie Oakland says… Read More
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The federal government is coming to the rescue of businesses and fishermen on Long Island’s East End with an urgently needed project to restore dunes. Back-to-back nor’easters slammed Dune Road in Southampton, causing the narrow strip of land between the ocean and the bay – with one way in and out… Read More
Remember Florence and more recently Dorian? Well, they redistributed a great deal of sand, especially Florence. We have been in nourishment mode since last winter with phase I of the sand replacement project which was completed in April, replacing about 1 million cubic yards of sand on beaches in eastern Emerald Isle, most of Salter… Read More
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gary Peters (D-MI) applauded the passage of bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and expand funding for the Great Lakes in the House of Representatives. This House bill is the same as the bill introduced by Stabenow and Peters in the U.S. Senate, S. 2295. The Great Lakes… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers will spend $85.35 million this year to begin deepening parts of the Mississippi River navigation channel between Baton Rouge and the river’s mouth to 50 feet, 5 feet deeper than at present, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, announced Monday. And President Donald Trump‘s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget, also… Read More
The Petaluma River, a tidal waterway that has seen boat traffic decline as silt piled up, will be dredged this year for the first time since 2003, rejuvenating a natural resource that for generations was the lifeblood of the community. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be allocating roughly $9.7 million this year to… Read More
KETCHIKAN — Though the $5.4 million rock blasting project in the Tongass Narrows has ended, it leaves in its wake a more navigable waterway and a memento. As crews dredged rubble from the seafloor following 15 explosions of a rock hump, an old anchor was unearthed. The admiralty style anchor, commonly used between the Civil… Read More
Originally Posted On 1/21/2020 The world’s oldest cutter suction dredger (CSD), the Panama Canal Authority’s (ACP’s) Mindi, sank about 161 km off Balboa as it was under tow to a new owner. Built by US-based Ellicott Machine Corps, a predecessor of today’s Ellicott Dredges, which supplied all the CSDs used in building the Panama Canal… Read More
Originally Posted on 1/17/2020 DredgeWire has obtained dramatic video footage of the sinking of the cutter dredge “Mindi” owned by the Panama Canal. Delivered during World War II by Ellicott, the Mindi was the main workhorse for the Canal for over half a century and operated continuously for over 75 years. More details will be… Read More
By Judith Powers, Special Correspondent to DredgeWire In 1977 when I began reporting on the dredging industry,innovations were being made in the United States that would lead to a complete revolution in equipment, methods, companies and the market itself. Positioning At that time, dredges and survey boats were positioned using long range navigation (LORAN), with… Read More
An Oregon land use policy creates a large economic value for some private homeowners who are allowed to protect their shoreline against erosion, according to a new Oregon State University study. The research directly informs policy on a contentious issue on the Oregon Coast – the tradeoff between a homeowner’s ability to protect their private… Read More