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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
This review of the global dredging market focuses on the situation in 2014 and was published in December 2015. IADC is always very thorough and precise in estimating the dredging turnover. By verification of data this document is continuously improved. About IADC IADC stands for “International Association of Dredging Companies” and is the global umbrella… Read More
The European Commission has rejected suggestions that EU laws are to blame for the recent severe flooding in Ireland. A spokeswoman for the European Commission said member states decide their own rules on how to manage their water courses. The comment follows criticism from groups and representatives in the UK and Ireland that EU legislation… Read More
BEACHES under attack from erosion in Sorrento, Frankston and Carrum will share in a $4.8 million plan to protect Port Phillip Bay. The State Government says it will commit to annual monitoring of bay beaches while spending the millions on renourishing beaches at Sandringham, Sorrento West, Eastern Beach Geelong, St Helens and Moorpanyal, Hampton, Frankston… Read More
There has been mounting opposition to the proposed dredging of the navigational channel at MPT and plans to introduce seaplane trips and construction of jetties and marinas off the Vasco coast. Plans announced by Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari after he flagged off the dredging work of the navigational channel on Friday… Read More