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Dredging crews left the Hudson River two years ago, but criticism of the $1.7 billion cleanup is bubbling up again. Advocates who want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to order crews back on the river are expected in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday night as the agency holds a public meeting on its review of the Superfund… Read More
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) announced this week that the recovery efforts facing the Lower Menominee River Area of Concern (AOC) have reached two major advances. Contamination by industrial activities had led to the river’s AOC designation as far back as 1987, under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. It was found to… Read More
THE Department of Environment Land Water and Planning (DELWP) is about to begin designing a rock seawall to provide “long term protection” to the foreshore and beach at Portsea. The department says other works will improve access to the beach east of the seawall. The decision to replace the existing sandbag seawall with a rock… Read More
It will have taken 35 years to move five feet in the Delaware River – but they are five big feet. Five feet deeper. By this time next year, the channel-deepening project will have been completed. From an initial study by the Delaware River Port Authority in 1983, this project has consumed the attention of… Read More
Dredging operations at Lake Gregory’s South Shore finished earlier this week and crews from the county’s contractor have moved to the San Moritz area to begin dredging in front of Leisure Shores Community Center. “We removed about 3,600 cubic yards of [sediment] from in front of the South Shores parking lot,” reported Jimmy Bon, project… Read More
The deadline to submit abstracts for the 2017 Pacific Chapter Meeting to be held October 25-27, 2017 in Portland has been extended to July 7, 2017. Presentations on all aspects of dredging and disposal, navigation structures, environmental restoration, and related topics are welcome and presentations specifically relevant to West Coast issues or projects are encouraged…. Read More
The Port of Tauranga’s successful establishment as the only New Zealand port call for Maersk and Hamburg Sud’s big ship services is going to change New Zealand’s ports, says board chariman David Pilkington today. Speaking at an on-wharf celebration today of the port’s handling one million twenty foot equivalent containers in one year, David says… Read More
Ukrainian Sea Port Authority has signed a contract with Novadeal Ltd, the subsidiary of DEME Group (Belgium), to implement a project on dredging works to reconstruct the maritime approach channel and inland water approaches to the deep-sea quays of Yuzhny seaport. “We are glad to receive Belgium’s Novadeal as a partner in development of Yuzhny… Read More
On June 20th, 2017, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) will sign the agreement with Novadeal LTD (subsidiary of the DEME Group, Belgium) to conduct operational dredging of the internal water area and the internal approach channel of Yuzhny port. USPA says the contractor was determined during the tender procedure in electronic system ProZorro. Works… Read More
According to the latest forecasts, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than historical averages with regard to the number of named storms. To that end, planning for future weather events was top of mind at a May 18 conference on the urgent need for a New York harbor storm surge barrier. Presented… Read More