Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners have announced a long term dredging and saltmarsh creation programme to improve channel depths and to restore vital intertidal marshes. Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners (BHC) face the daunting task of maintaining required depths in the harbour’s navigation channels, whilst balancing the needs of the natural environment around them. As with many harbours in… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comment on plans to dredge Erie’s harbor this summer and dump the materials in Lake Erie. The Corps of Engineers’ Buffalo District is anticipating the need to dredge the federal navigation channels of Erie’s harbor including the entrance channel, harbor basin and three adjacent areas. The… Read More
Newport Harbor dock owners who for years have refrained from dredging sediment because of the cost of preserving eelgrass could soon see less mud under their boats. In December, Newport Beach received a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers and the California Coastal Commission for a program that allows small-scale maintenance dredging under and adjacent… Read More
China’s Cosco Shipyard Group Company Ltd and China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd are studying the feasibility of building a drydock in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port, a top official said. Sri Lanka Ports Authority Chairman, Dhammika Ranatunga said the Chinese firms were conducting a new financial feasibility after the original location planned for the dry dock… Read More
A MEMBER of Bandon Flood Group has said the people of Bandon are getting nothing but a ‘bucketful of excuses’ from both Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) and Cork County Council, over dredging of the Bandon River. And at a meeting of Cork County Council on Monday, one angry councillor told the IFI to ‘back off’… Read More
Parts of Elmbridge’s rivers could be dredged as a leading conservation trust looks to implement a new flood task group to stave off rising waters. It follows devastating flooding in the north of England after storms swept through the region. Four flood alerts are now in place in the borough as rising river levels continue… Read More
Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s plan to move the money-strapped Canal Corp. — which has no visible way to cover a multimillion-dollar plan to dredge toxic PCBs from the Champlain Canal on the Hudson River — under the wing of the cash-rich New York Power Authority has raised questions about whether it will buttress financial support for… Read More
When you start messing with beach access and waterfront views on the Jersey Shore, you’re going to create some controversy. If the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn’t know that already, it sure found out during the public comment period on a proposed $79 million coastal protection project in Highlands. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
A plan designed to help keep a majority of dredged material out of Long Island Sound has been finalized, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dredging, a regular practice for maintaining federal navigation projects, involves removing mud and sand from the base of navigable waterways to make them deeper and easier for vessels… Read More
Tenders were floated here yesterday for the construction of the Sultanate’s largest fishery harbour project at Duqm on the country’s Wusta coast. The facility is proposed to be integrated with a world-scale Industrial Fisheries Cluster envisaged as part of a mammoth Special Economic Zone (SEZ) under development at Duqm. Total investment in the harbour project,… Read More
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney T.D., today announced details of an €18m Capital Investment Package in 2016 for the development of Ireland’s fishery harbour network. Announcing the investment package, the Minister said “In total I am allocating €18m for this year’s Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Capital Programme. I have set… Read More
Whether it’s deepening navigation channels or keeping them at current depths, port authorities on all three U.S. coasts are finding the purse strings, especially in Washington, increasingly tight. And as the 2016 elections approach, they would like nothing better than to get the politicians’ attention. But port issues, unfortunately, are seldom of the hot-button variety… Read More
RICHMOND MP Rishi Sunak has pressed Environment Agency bosses to consider dredging rivers more frequently to lessen the impact of future flooding. He also urged them to be less remote, to engage more with local people and tap into their knowledge. Mr Sunak questioned the Agency’s chief executive Sir James Bevan about the EA’s record… Read More
The dispute between the Port of Cleveland and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers heated up again this week after Army brass obtained a cut of more than $3 million in funds budgeted for dredging the Cuyahoga River shipping channel. Port of Cleveland President & CEO Wil Friedman wrote to Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob… Read More
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said “common sense” needed to be applied in the debate over dredging the River Shannon as he insisted works would be carried out . Mr Kenny has rejected claims that European laws have stopped dredging on the river and thereby contributed to the devastating floods of recent weeks. There have been tensions… Read More