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Efforts to dredge Lake Gregory remain stuck in the mud as the county continues to negotiate about how and where to do the dredging with two of the three agencies who must approve permits. “We are still working through the process,” said Tim Millington, interim division manager for the county’s Special Districts Department. “We have… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has over the last couple of weeks acquired a number of medium sized and various smaller projects in the Netherlands with a combined contract value of more than EUR 200 million. Boskalis was awarded the project for the expansion and doubling of the N62 road (Tractaatweg) in the province Zeeland…. Read More
Dredging the Swinomish Channel and creating a county-wide broadband network were the major discussions of a joint meeting between the ports of Anacortes and Skagit on Jan. 5 at City Hall. Kym Anderson, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers Navigation Section, gave the two commissions an update on the workings of the agency when… Read More
OBG (O’Brien & Gere) announced that it has acquired Natural Resource Technology (NRT), an environmental engineering and consulting firm headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, with regional offices in Chicago, IL, East Lansing, MI, and Bloomington, IL. This strategic positioning with NRT and its leadership supports OBG’s commitment to growing its business and specifically, its focus on… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced revised and renewed nationwide permits (NWPs) necessary for work in streams, wetlands and other waters of the United States under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. The new NWPs will take effect March 19, 2017,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Rahway River Flood Risk Management Study will host two information meetings in Cranford and Rahway. The meetings are part of a 45-day public comment period for the Draft Integrated Feasibility Report (DIFR) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Rahway River Flood Risk Management Study, from Dec…. Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is raising the price of cleaning up the Portland Harbor Superfund Site from $746 million to $1.05 billion in a final plan that calls for more dredging and capping of contaminated soil along a 10-mile stretch of the Willamette River. In a statement released shortly after the plan was announced… Read More
No wonder Port of Port St. Joe officials wish to be part of the club. Florida ports added 200,000 new jobs since 2012 and were responsible for $117.6 billion in economic activity last year, according to a report issued by the Florida Ports Council. As Port St. Joe Port Authority officials, joined by private and… Read More
Toxic dredging has cost Soldiers Point Marina operator $220,000. Coming as something of a shock to the marina industry, the operator of award-winning Soldiers Point Marina at Port Stephens has been ordered to pay $220,000 in fines and clean-up costs. The NSW Environment Protection Authority took action for illegal dredging which apparently disturbed toxic sediment…. Read More
The New Bourbon Regional Port Authority board conducted a meeting in December after all, though last week’s meeting at the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission in Perryville addressed a limited agenda to consider bids for two projects. The board awarded Magruder Construction Company the contract for harbor dredging of 75,000 cubic yards of material. And… Read More