Three Bays Preservation and Mass Audubon Society are seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Nantucket Sound and Cotuit Bay. The plans call for the dredging of 133,600 cubic yards of clean sand from a 218,400-square-foot area to be placed on Dead Neck Sampson’s Island in Osterville. The majority of… Read More
The Port St. Joe Port Authority recently took the next step in developing the Port of Port St. Joe. The Port Authority board officially entered into a joint participation agreement (JPA) with Hatch Mott MacDonald engineers and the Florida Department of Transportation. The agreement is for Hatch Mott to initiate the work on the design… Read More
India’s Ministry of Shipping has updated its guidelines for awarding capital and maintenance dredging contracts at major state-owned ports. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
If Margate didn’t want dunes, it should have challenged the project more than a decade ago. That was the message from state’s attorney Stephen Eisdorfer Friday afternoon during a 75-minute court hearing on the battle over the plan to seize dozens of city-owned properties as part of a larger dune project. The two sides argued… Read More
The Greater Lafourche Port Commission received national attention for a project that restored about a mile of beach and dune habitat near Port Fourchon. The American Association of Port Authorities awarded the commission the 2015 Environmental Enhancement Award for the project, which bolsters the port’s first line of defense against hurricanes and storm surge. The… Read More
Presque Isle Advisory Committee members are concerned about contaminants. The group has questions about a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal to use material dredged from Erie’s harbor to build up Presque Isle’s Gull Point. “Is the potential harm or contamination worth what we really get out of this?” park Operations Manager Matt Greene asked…. Read More
The city of Lebanon and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District held a signing ceremony today that signals the beginning of a Flood Risk Management Study of the Bartons Creek watershed. The study includes Bartons and Sinking Creeks and will look at measures to reduce flood risk as well as provide the city with… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District has released documents that have been submitted to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, requesting a Clean Water Act Section 401 water quality certification for open lake placement of dredged sediment from the upper Cuyahoga River federal navigation channel associated with its scheduled 2016 dredging of Cleveland… Read More
A harbourmaster has highlighted the “tremendous importance” of dredging, as controversial plans to dredge a port in Cornwall are drawn up for resubmission. The Marine Management Organisation has so far blocked plans to dredge Falmouth Harbour since they were first proposed in 2004, due to environmental concerns. Capt Mark Sansom said Falmouth Harbour was too… Read More
The MEPA Board refused to give planning permission for the renewal of PA 4819/07 to continue the incomplete dredging works as part of the existing Terminal 1 West Quay of the Malta Freeport in close proximity of the residential area of Birzebbugia. This refusal was based on the SPED Document’s Social Economic Development Thematic Objectives… Read More
Comments on a proposed Trinity River channel improvement project will be accepted in a public meeting set for Wednesday 2 December 2015 from 6.30 to 8.30pm, at the Moose Lodge, 71 Lewiston Turnpike Rd in Lewiston. Staff from the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control board… Read More
Earlier this year, a maintenance dredging project at the Port of Gulfport was completed that put the shipping channel at its authorized depth of 36 feet. But, what happened to those plans to deepen the channel to 45 feet or more? Port director Jonathan Daniels said making maximum use of that 36 feet will still… Read More
Long-suffering residents around the DuPage River may be getting some floodwater relief from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers beginning in 2018. Engineers from the corps and DuPage County Stormwater Management held the second of three public comment opportunities at the county administration building Nov. 17 to add local problem areas to the river feasibility… Read More
After a week that saw nearly daily arrests and protests on the Montauk beachfront over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ work to install geotextile bags along the shore, East Hampton Town representatives and other elected officials have announced that they will not stand in the way of the project. In a press release issued… Read More
New Jersey could be in line for federal funding to repair 12 of its coastal lakes in Monmouth and Ocean counties after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed to include those bodies of water in a major study after Hurricane Sandy’s devastation. The inclusion of those lakes – as well as a harbor and… Read More