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ORLEANS — The Orleans selectmen met in Lakeville, Mass., last Friday. It wasn’t because they grew tired of the tasteful décor of the Nauset Room at town hall or wanted to bond during a road trip. They met at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife office there to interact with an alphabet soup of state and… Read More
MV Mango Tree Group dredger which will clean up Lake Victoria. /MAURICE ALAL The clean up of Lake Victoria, including removal of the water hyacinth, will be launched today by the African Union High Representative for Infrastructure Raila Odinga. A dredging vessel owned by Mango Tree Group based in Uganda arrived at the Kisumu pier… Read More
The project was supposed to be completed this summer. The Army Corps of Engineers has put on hold indefinitely a $2.9 million dredging of Gordon Pass in Naples. The project had been scheduled for this summer. Susan Jackson, a spokeswoman for the Corps, said it’s a Class III project and that no Class III projects received… Read More
CONNEAUT — Citizens can question officials about an upcoming project to dispose of dredged material during a town hall meeting next week The city intends to build a facility to turn the dredged material from the Conneaut harbor into topsoil to comply with a state law that banned dumping dredged material in Lake Erie after… Read More
INEOS, one of the largest chemical concerns in the world, has chosen the port of Antwerp as the location for a mega-investment of 3 billion euros representing 400 new jobs. The capital outlay is the largest in the European chemical industry in the past two decades. With the ecuring of this large-scale investment project Flanders… Read More
A century after the Kankakee River was dredged and straightened in Indiana, it’s more prone to flooding than ever. However, the preliminary report on a plan to relieve some of the flooding received a lukewarm reception at a recent Kankakee River Basin Commission meeting. The plan called for a combination of measures, such as stabilizing some… Read More
MCALLEN, RGV – It will not only be Willacy County that benefits when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes its multi-million dollar dredging work on the Mansfield Cut, says Port Mansfield executive director. Ron Mills says the Port of Harlingen will receive a huge boos because it will be able to attract offshore barges… Read More
More than 100 years ago, the Grand River was gutted, its rapids and islands removed, its riverbed flattened and deepened by means of dredging, converting the river from a habitat to an industrial asset to move timber for the booming furniture industry. While the city of Grand Rapids has since become an innovative leader amongst… Read More
Recent articles published in the Suburban Times regarding Waughop Lake have not included all the facts around how the City arrived at its decision to apply alum treatments to the lake to control toxic algae blooms. There are many opinions on what to do about the lake, from do nothing to dredge it and start… Read More
In the times of climate change a heat record chases the next, the poles and glaciers will melt, the water in the oceans heats up – and as a consequence the sea level will rise. Low-lying island States and low-lying coastal regions threaten to sink in the water. The oceans grow and the dry surface… Read More
The Orleans selectmen met in Lakeville, Mass., last Friday. It wasn’t because they grew tired of the tasteful décor of the Nauset Room at town hall or wanted to bond during a road trip. They met at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife office there to interact with an alphabet soup of state and federal regulators… Read More
Boaters, anglers, beachgoers, homeowners and businesses all gain from Suffolk’s end-of-the-year dredging, which cleared channels and built up beaches, officials said. The county spent $7 million deepening 16 waterways deemed priorities in six towns, County Executive Steve Bellone said in a statement Friday. “Now our commercial fishing and boating industries can have greater confidence when… Read More
Lake Audubon’s dredging project is slated to start as soon as Feb. 1. The Reston Association announced today (Jan. 18) that it plans to hire Lake Services, Inc. to dredge the accumulated sediment from the lake’s main coves. Dredging could begin as early as Feb. 1 with expected completion by the end of April. The… Read More
Sand filling of long-awaited Bay Container Terminal in Chattogram has started while construction of boundary wall will begin soon. Chattogram Port Authority has already started dredging of 68 acres of land acquired from private owners by Chattogram District administration on November 29 last year spending Tk 468 crore. The fencing of the area would start… Read More
Leaders in Surf City are weighing options on how to replace the thousands of cubic yards of sand that was lost after Hurricane Florence swept through the area. Hundreds of people flocked to Town Hall for Friday morning’s town council meeting where officials revealed that an estimated 1.8 million cubic yards of sand was washed… Read More