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Left to right, with Mayor Lenny Curry front and center: Bill Gulliford, Ellen Glasser, Rory Diamond, Elaine Brown and Charlie Latham. Brendan Rivers / WJCT News Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said Wednesday he’s putting together a committee on sea-level rise, shortly after he announced the renourishment project to repair Jacksonville-area beaches damaged by recent hurricanes… Read More
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Repairs to the Ocean Beach Pier could be delayed and more damage to the pier could occur as three storms prepare to move through San Diego this weekend. Crews are still assessing the damages to the pier, according to Alec Phillipp, with the City of San Diego. Crews were also still… Read More
The Gulf Coast Chapter of the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) was back in the Big Easy for its annual conference, held from November 13 to 15, 2018, at the ACE Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 2018 conference, which rotates each year between New Orleans, Mobile, Alabama, and Galveston, Texas, drew 163 attendees. Presentations ranged… Read More
Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NSF) – In what would be the largest budget in state history, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday released a proposed $91.3 billion spending plan that would increase school funding, pump money into water-quality projects and trim taxes. DeSantis’ proposal is a starting point for lawmakers, who… Read More
The specialized fleet of Delta-Pilot, the branch of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, almost doubled dredging in 2018 compared with 2017, to 1.341 million cubic meters. More than a third of this volume (497,300 cubic meters) is the result of the operation of the Meotid dredger in Mariupol and Berdiansk ports of the Sea of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District began maintenance dredging of the Bennett’s Creek Federal Navigation channel on December 7 and wrapped up January 3. Labor and equipment assets, along with support work such as surveys, engineering and design, was solely provided by the Corps for the duration of the project. This was an… Read More
The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) kicked off a salt marsh restoration and elevation enhancement project at Quonochotaug Pond in Rhode Island, where dredging removed sand from the bottom of the pond and is being used to restore and enhance the adjacent marshland as well as create a public beach. The dredging was… Read More
Manson Construction began dredging Oceanside Harbor in California on October 15 and wrapped up work the second week of November. The dredging, which is typically done on an annual basis, was delayed last May by the U.S. Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District because the previous water quality certification had expired and a new Section… Read More
An emergency renourishment project at Lido Beach, Florida, began on November 5 and is expected to be completed by February 12 despite a series of weather delays. Five separate cold fronts have moved into Florida causing wave action that put a stop to dredging each time. So far 14 days of work have been lost,… Read More
A $20-million-plus effort to restore protective berms along Flagler County’s coastline, one of the longest and most multifaceted projects in the county’s history, entered its home stretch this month. Work crews have mounted a steady march south along the shoreline for the past year, dumping more than 750,000 tons of sand to patch up Flagler’s… Read More
Province says yes, after two years of work by city, to dredge creek for flood mitigation Two years of applications, letters, reports, phone calls and general red tape discussions have proven fruitful for the City of Armstrong. The city, last week, received approval from the provincial Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural… Read More
OCEAN CITY – Mayor Jay Gillian has received word from the state Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) that the season for dredging activity in the bay has been extended from Feb. 28 to March 31. According to a release, the extension provides Ocean City residents an additional month to arrange for dredging their private slips…. Read More
ALAPPUZHA: Resentment is brewing among residents of Purakkad gram panchayat against the move of major irrigation department (MID) to sell mineral sand from Thottappally ‘pozhi’ (estuary) to either Indian Rare Earths (IRE) Limited or Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML). The gram panchayat authorities and fishermen have warned that they would launch an indefinite agitation… Read More
Canal boats will be allowed access through the canal for the first time in ninety years (Image: Handout) Grantham canal has begun dredging work which will allow boats to pass through for the first time in ninety years. Long haul excavators will begin hauling out mud and silt from the bottom of the canal at… Read More
The sand from the $3.9 million dredge is being used to renourish nearby Lido Beach. Work on the $3.9 million dredging of New Pass and nourishment of Lido Beach is nearly halfway done, Sarasota city officials said. When the project is complete, nearly 185,000 cubic yards of sand will have been taken from New Pass,… Read More