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A joint venture of MDG Design + Construction and Wavecrest Management completed the rehabilitation of a 1,395-unit public housing community in Far Rockaway, Queens. The project is the country’s largest single-site conversion under HUD’s RAD program RDC Development, a joint venture of MDG Design + Construction and Wavecrest Management, has announced the completion of a… Read More
FLORIDA – Collier County commissioners on Tuesday gave the green light to a $5.5 million beach renourishment project that will send sand-hauling trucks to three beaches starting this fall. Commissioners unanimously approved the project, which will bring between 120,000 and 130,000 cubic yards of sand from a mine in Immokalee to Clam Pass, North Park… Read More
Bridges to Anna Maria Island routinely get the maintenance equivalent of an oil change, but every 10 years or so the structures require significant repairs. A contractor with the Florida Department of Transportation planned to begin major repairs June 10 on the Longboat Pass Bridge linking Bradenton Beach and Longboat Key on State Road 789…. Read More
To keep waters navigable, they have to be dredged to allow the removal of vast volumes of wet sludge so ships can get through. Experts from around the Great Lakes are in town to see what this area does with dredged materials. Credit Mike Desmond / WBFO News If you are in the port business,… Read More
TARPON SPRINGS — When the city learned in March that $3 million in federal funding for the Anclote River dredging project had been diverted to hurricane relief efforts in the Panhandle, Mayor Chris Alahouzos was upset, but he vowed the project would continue moving forward. “I am very, very unhappy with what’s going on, losing… Read More
The state budget passed by the Hawaii Legislature includes funding for repairs at Waikiki Beach, officials said. The legislature approved about $13 million for improvements to the crumbling Royal Hawaiian seawall and other man-made structures at the state’s most visited beach, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday. “This is the largest appropriation for beach improvements on… Read More
The Dredge Ellis Island is now working off a landing point located just south of Outer Banks Pier, according to the Town of Nags Head. Over the next five to six days, the construction associated with this dredge will progress about 500 feet south to tie into the beach that has already been nourished near… Read More
U.S. Forest Forest Service crews have restarted work on the Bonanza Stream Restoration Project. The project, which is located near the historic Bonanza town site in the Yankee Fork drainage, will restore nearly a mile of the Yankee Fork that was impacted by dredge mining. It will will substantially improve the ability of the Yankee… Read More
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will put $13.5 million in Waterway Improvement Fund grants towards projects that support boating all over the Bay. Some of the 58 projects being funded are statewide, like $2 million that will go towards replacing the state’s ice breaker, J. Millard Tawes, and $1.241 million for storm damage… Read More
On Monday, June 3, Dare County Board of Commissioners approved a beach nourishment project for Buxton. The $19.8 million project scheduled for 2021 will put one million cubic yards in the same nourished project area completed on February 27, 2018. The project combines $5.8 million through Federal Emergency Management Agency for 300,000 cubic-yard sand loss… Read More
Two dredges are working again off the Nags Head beach as pumping continues not far from fishing piers on the north and south ends of town. The Ellis Island is delivering sand just south of Outer Banks Fishing Pier in South Nags Head. Over the next five to six days, construction will progress about 500… Read More
ORLEANS — Plans to dredge the Nauset Estuary seem to be stuck in the sand as town officials try to convince Eastham to go along with the project. Fishermen and boaters have come to the town of Orleans pleading that something be done to open up the channel from Town Cove through Nauset Harbor and… Read More
Washington – A fierce court battle between Connecticut and New York over the state’s dumping of sediment in the eastern portion of Long Island Sound will come to a head this summer. Connecticut says the new underwater dump site is needed to maintain the state’s economic development effort – including its lucrative submarine construction business… Read More
BOSTON — The Baker-Polito administration announced its fiscal year 2020 Capital Investment Plan Thursday, with funding for two major projects in the city. The plan includes $10 million for the city’s harbor dredging project and $115 million for South Coast Rail. The funding for dredging is “part of the Administration’s continuing commitment to economic development… Read More
The federal government is taking a new look at curing North Jacksonville’s dying Fort George River inlet, which is choking on an enormous amount of trapped sand that could one day dam the tidal river from the Atlantic Ocean. The inlet’s troubles are well-documented, as are the associated threats of erosion to Little Talbot Island,… Read More