The Barnstable County Dredge Department has launched its 30th season of dredging on Cape Cod with its largest single-season project to date—an expanded dredging of the Popponesset Bay Approach Channel in Mashpee. With a targeted volume of 57,000 cubic yards, the project utilizes both of the County’s dredges, Sand Shifter and Cod Fish II, and more than two… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New York District has begun dredging operations at Lake Montauk Harbor in East Hampton, N.Y., with work expected to continue through January 2026. The federally maintained navigation channel is being dredged to restore safe passage for commercial fishing vessels, while sand from the project will be used to… Read More
SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Some homeowners are still recovering following devastating flooding in 2024 that left their homes feet underwater. Many of those impacted lived along Sarasota County’s Phillippi Creek. A project to dredge the creek is slated to get underway early next year. The plan calls for a dredge that is 50 feet… Read More
The Panama Canal is fully committing to its $8.5 billion 10-year modernization plan, with its administrator making it known that the waterway’s authority is moving at a frenetic pace to advance multiple projects including two new nearby port terminals and a gas pipeline connecting both oceans. “We are moving fast,” Panama Canal administrator Ricaurte Vásquez Morales… Read More
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said officers dismantled 277 floating mining rafts worth an estimated $6.8 million…. Read More
