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Dredging of the Pirie River may start in May, according to a letter shared with lobby group, the Wharf Rats. The group, consisting of about a dozen men with links to fishing and boating, had demanded more information from Port Pirie Regional Council about the $2 million dredging and boat ramp project. Deputy Mayor Cr… Read More
Central Sands is using an Ellicott Swinging Ladder dredge to deliver a milestone this week in the cure for Indian River Lagoon, sucking up decades of mayonnaise-like muck from a Cocoa Beach canal. On Thursday, the Ellicott dredge began removing the built-up muck from a canal along the Banana River Lagoon. The $2 million project… Read More
Recently the Kansas Water Office was recognized by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for their continued partnership and contribution to the USACE mission during the approval process of the John Redmond Reservoir Dredging Initiative. This project is the first and largest inland Section 408 request—permission for the alteration of a USACE civil works… Read More
Crews from the Baltimore District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start work this month on a $25.6 million project to maintain shipping lanes in Baltimore Harbor and its bay channels, according to a news release. Some of the dredged material will be sent to an Anne Arundel County facility. Workers will begin dredging… Read More
Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, the chief of engineers for the Army Corps, deemed the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration project ready to be presented to Congress, but it must first go to Assistant Secretary of the Army Jo-Ellen Darcy for an administrative review. If the plan meets Darcy’s standards, the proposal would potentially be submitted… Read More
With the beginning of the quay and dredging works, a major step forward has been taken to transform PSA Panama International Terminal into a two million-TEU (20-foot equivalent) facility. The expansion, which was approved by Panama’s National Assembly earlier this year, is scheduled to be made operational in the first half of 2017. It involves… Read More
Lake Macquarie boaties are getting a pre-Christmas boost, with work starting today on removing a large sand shoal that has built up in the Swansea Channel. The shoal has been hindering boats from getting in and out of Lake Macquarie. This week’s dredging work is part of an ongoing maintenance program and coincides with sand… Read More
Local governments are cutting their losses on a beleaguered plan to revitalize an 18-mile stretch of the Santa Cruz River. The Marana Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday to withdraw as a local sponsor of the Tres Rios del Norte feasibility study. The study, and its resulting initiatives, would have helped restore the ecosystem and replenished… Read More
GREAT Yarmouth Borough Council has started work on an important coast protection scheme for Scratby, which aims to give the community more time to adapt to coastal change. The scheme is to lay a 877-metre long revetment of about 1,300 gabions – stone-filled and crushed concrete-filled cages – from the existing rock berm at Little… Read More
In the event additional dredging of Sydney harbour is required to accommodate the next generation of large ships, it will be built into the overall design and planning of the proposed container terminal, Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Cecil Clarke says. The harbour is capable of handling ships currently in the marketplace, he said. “At… Read More