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President Obama issued the ninth veto of his presidency Tuesday, rejecting a congressional resolution that would have overturned federal regulations on clean water. The Waters of the United States rule, adopted by the Obama administration in 2014, expands the definition of waters subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean… Read More
President Obama vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have blocked the administration’s new regulation establishing federal authority over small waterways such as wetlands and ponds, a rule criticized by Republican lawmakers as a “power grab” by the EPA. In a message to Congress, Mr. Obama said the new rule “is critical to our efforts to protect… Read More
Cork County Council is to seek clarification from Inland Fisheries Ireland over its view that dredging of flooded rivers can only take place as an emergency measure where flood relief schemes are not being undertaken by the OPW. Cork County Council chief executive Tim Lucey told councillors the council had been in contact with the… Read More
The deepening of the Savannah River will be delayed if the federal government continues to drag its feet on federal funding, Gov. Nathan Deal warned Tuesday. “We can’t afford to lose very much more time,” he told business leaders attending the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s annual Eggs and Issues breakfast. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The project to dredge Peel harbour was ‘mishandled’ and government financial regulations were ‘almost completely ignored’. That’s the damning conclusion of a Public Accounts Committee investigation into the removal and disposal of thousands of tonnes of silt from the town’s marina last year. The work created quite a stink from neighbours of the site in… Read More
As the Mississippi River and its tributaries retreated from historic winter levels that flooded towns, forced evacuations and killed two dozen people, residents in the St Louis area were facing a massive cleanup and recovery effort that will likely last weeks. The flood, fueled by more than 10in of rain over a three-day period that… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers has opened the public comment period on T-Rex St. John LLC‘s application for a private commercial offshore marina in St. John’s Coral Bay. The comment period, which ends Jan. 25, gives members of the public, government agencies and other interested parties a chance to address concerns regarding the project. Those… Read More
Shipping company CMA-CGM says the parliament in Ghana recently ratified an agreement between Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority [GPHA], KBC Bank NV, Belfius Bank SA/NV, Deutsche Bank AG and BNP Paribas Fortis NV/SA for €160 million to finance the additional civil and dredging works at Takoradi Port. Quoting Ghana Web, CMA-CGM said the agreement brings… Read More
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