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In a region where the daily commute can be a soul-ravaging exercise in traffic gridlock or overstuffed railcars, the 154 sparkling white piles poking out of the water just south of the San Francisco Ferry Building offer a glimmer of hope. Those piles, pounded 150 feet into the dense bay sand, represent the foundation of… Read More
When the wind whipped up the shallow water on Storm Lake a couple decades ago, it created an interesting scene. The wave action lifted sediment off the shallow lake’s bottom, leading to cloudy, brown water conditions and strange-looking waves. “We didn’t have whitecaps, we had kind of like chocolate caps,” said Gary Lalone, chairman of… Read More
The Azikel Group, an indigenous sand dredging firm, has resumed business in spite of the sealing of its site by Bayelsa Board of Internal Revenue (BIR) on December 15, over alleged tax evasion amounting to N30 million. A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who visited the premises of the firm on Friday reported that the… Read More
Washington lawmakers are right to press President Donald Trump’s administration to fund much needed maintenance and upgrades at the Ballard Locks in Seattle. In a letter sent Friday, a coalition of representatives urged Trump and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fund the locks improvements in their 2018 and 2019 budgets. This work is… Read More
Three companies will pay more than $4.5 million in settlement payments to resolve claims they polluted the Sheboygan River. The three companies — Tecumseh Products Co., Thomas Industries, Inc. and Wisconsin Public Service Corp — agreed to the settlements long after a multi-million dredging and cleanup effort of the Sheboygan River has finished. Kohler Co.,… Read More
In an attempt to fix a two-year problem at Round Hill Creek, Gladstone Regional Council has reached out to the Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning for advice to dredge the river mouth. For two years, sand build-up has caused serious safety and access problems for tourism operators and recreational anglers. It also… Read More
John LaRue, as executive director of the Port of Corpus Christi since 1994, has helped the local area develop a reputation as a leading exporter of crude oil in the United States. But the port will have a new leader for the first time in more than two decades, after officials announced that LaRue would… Read More
After a large volume of scientific research and almost two-years of pre-consultation with the community, Napier Port has reached a huge milestone in the development of its proposed wharf and dredging project. Today the port lodged its resource consent application with Hawke’s Bay Regional Council – which if granted would allowed the 350m wharf to… Read More
The Portland Harbor Superfund, the contaminated 10-mile stretch of the Willamette River right through the heart of the Rose City, is one of 21 toxic areas the Trump administration says should see “immediate and intense” attention. Cause for celebration? From Gov. Kate Brown’s perspective, the announcement Friday can only be interpreted positively. “We actually feel… Read More
A $13 million price tag is among a slew of reasons why Porirua Harbour should not be dredged, a new report has found. Removing the build-up of silt from the harbour’s bottom was unlikely to be consented, might not be supported by iwi, and didn’t guarantee a fix for the murky waters, it says. Porirua… Read More