At the same time the North Atlantic Division (NAD) has supported U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) response and recovery efforts following recent major storm events elsewhere in the United States, it has remained intensely focused on Superstorm Sandy repair, restoration and risk-reduction projects in the northeast six years since that major weather event. The… Read More
A multi-million dollar project to dredge the St. Lawrence River at the Port of Ogdensburg and expand the terminal’s cargo capacity is inching forward, with fresh conversations involving city of Ogdensburg officials over how construction and other maritime disruptions will impact residents and nearby municipal properties. Ogdensburg City Council was given an update on the… Read More
The Executive Committee of the National Economic (ECNEC) today approved a project to procure some 35 dredgers involving Taka 4,489.03 crore to keep up navigability in 100 major rivers across the country. The approval came from the 11th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year held at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has begun dredging a sand bar at the entrance to the Oceanside Harbor in San Diego. The project was delayed nearly six months after it was scheduled to begin due to a lack of permit. According to the San Diego Union Tribune, the goal of the annual spring… Read More
A massive construction and expansion project completed at the Fairview Container Terminal in Prince Rupert, B.C., is in the spotlight and three companies that worked on the ambitious venture have won silver Vancouver Regional Construction Association (VRCA) 2018 Awards of Excellence. Maksim Mihic, general manager of DP World (Canada) Inc. which operates the terminal, said… Read More
There are 6,800 acres of new marshland bordering the Passes of the Mississippi River—land that was created starting in 2011 by a coalition intent on stopping the loss of land in Louisiana at a rate once described as “a football field every hour.” The Mississippi River advocacy group Big River Coalition (BRC) has been working… Read More
LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) – Port of Vinton officials say dredging operations near the mouth of the Vinton Navigation Channel has been completed. “It has been more than seven years since any maintenance dredge work has been performed on the channel, and in that time, a naturally occurring ‘humping’ of sediment near the mouth of… Read More
Dredging to clear a growing sand bar at the entrance to the Oceanside harbor is scheduled to start Thursday, six months after the annual spring cleaning was cancelled for the lack of a permit. Low tides and high surf can cause problems and even capsize boats at the harbor’s mouth, which steadily fills with sand… Read More
In addition to the wastewater public service delegation contract for Greater Bordeaux recently signed by the city’s mayor Alain Juppé and Antoine Frérot, Veolia Eau France (Paris:VIE) has won a new series of contracts with new municipalities. From Côte de Nacre to Dinan, and Givors to Cannes Pays de Lérins, these successes represent cumulative revenue… Read More
There’s something apocalyptic about this pond on the east side of San Francisco Bay, California. The legacy of a salt industry that has moved elsewhere, it has subsided a couple of meters below the level of neighboring marshland. Algae paints red swirls in the brown water, and the pond’s edge is crusted hard with sparkling… Read More