The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has awarded a $3.17 million contract to White Lake Dock and Dredge, Inc., a Small Business out of North Shores, Michigan, for maintenance dredging and southern jetty rehabilitation for the Fishing Creek Federal navigation channel. The project, in coordination with the Town of Chesapeake Beach, consists of dredging… Read More
The government has initiated efforts to dredge the entire Volta River and construct sea defense mechanisms to ensure that people living within communities along the river are safe and protected. This is to help protect lives and properties of people living within the coastal communities of Ada and its environs. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo… Read More
Officials with the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission were in Zapata County, Texas, on Monday, to review the dwindling levels at Falcon Lake and to decide when dredging of the Rio Grande could begin to help locals access more drinking water, Border Report has learned. Zapata County Judge Joe Rathmell told Border Report that… Read More
Privately-owned Vallejo, Calif., ship repairer Mare Island Dry Dock LLC has been awarded a $37,846,243 firm-fixed-price contract for a 212-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry docking availability for the Military Sealift Command submarine tender USS Frank Cable(AS 40). The contract includes options that, if exercised, would bring its total contract value to $39,049,539. Work will… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $4.7 million to improve navigation into Ellsworth’s harbor after years of shifting bottom have reduced some passages to about a foot of clearance at low tide. Ellsworth City Manager Glenn Moshier confirmed that the corps put the Union River dredging project in its latest work plan and… Read More