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Officials celebrate completion of Oswego’s West Arrowhead Breakwater
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District and their partners celebrated the completion of a multi-year repair of Oswego’s West Arrowhead Breakwater and the start of construction on its Outer West Breakwater. Repairs to the 2,700 feet of the West Arrowhead Breakwater were completed with mult
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Foyle & Marine: First stone shipment for Iona Breakwater Project
Foyle & Marine has completed the first transhipment of rock armor to the Iona Breakwater Project for Argyll and Bute Council.A total of 11,000 tons of rock armor was delivered to Iona aboard the Barge Silur, towed by the tug Raduga Lyon. “Our dedicated crew worked around the clock, to ensure the saf
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USACE places armor stone on Cleveland Harbor breakwater
The USACE Buffalo District’s Repair Fleet is continuing their season on the Great Lakes by placing armor stone on the breakwater along a portion of the Cleveland Harbor to ensure its strength from crashing waves. The grapple used in placing the stone was removed for the return trip to the Cleveland
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VIDEO: Breakwater repairs at Dunkirk Pier
The USACE Buffalo District’s crews are hard at work on essential improvements to the breakwater at the Dunkirk Pier. This vital structure protects the harbor, supports safe navigation, and preserves the waterfront for future generations, according to USACE. “From reinforcing aging infrastructure to
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Van Oord and Boskalis win contract for IJsselmeerdijk project
A consortium consisting of Van Oord and Boskalis and Zuiderzeeland Water Board last week signed the contract to reinforce the IJsselmeerdijk, the Netherlands. Contract signing is the final step in awarding the implementation of this dyke reinforcement project between Lelystad and Ketelbrug. The dyke
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Chapel’s Cove breakwater plan on display
The Town of Harbour Main-Chapel’s Cove-Lakeview is planning to construct a 115-meter breakwater to help protect roads and residential properties along the community’s western shoreline from storm surge and coastal erosion. This project is necessary to protect the coastline and mitigate the risk of f
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Bunbury breakwater project reaches major milestone
Bunbury’s waterfront transformation has reached an important milestone, with nearly 300,000 tonnes of rock placed at low level to complete full length construction of the new 460 meter northern breakwater at Bunbury’s Casuarina Boat Harbor. The milestone follows the completion of dredging late last
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Boskalis: Spotlight on Rotterdam Reef
Two years ago, Boskalis installed 17 Lego-like artificial reef blocks on the banks of the Nieuwe Waterweg in the Port of Rotterdam using their crane barge Kreeft. These reef blocks, designed and produced by the Dutch start-up Reefy, are there to serve two purposes: Now, two years later, the results
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Work starts on new breakwater in Iona
Foyle and Marine Dredging (FMD) has mobilized to Iona, Scotland, for an exciting new project – construction of a new breakwater for the client, Argyll and Bute Council. According to FMD, a key element of this project is the use of the versatile landing craft, ‘Stephen James’, which will be transport
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Great Lakes Dock and Materials nabs Oswego breakwater contract
The USACE Buffalo District recently awarded a $9.1 million contract to Michigan-based Great Lakes Dock and Materials LLC for repairs to the Oswego Harbor outer west breakwater. The breakwater foundation has been significantly damaged by storms, wave action, and deterioration for more than 90 years.
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TCAP’s second phase coming along nicely
Hall Contracting is making significant progress with the second phase of the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP-II). According to the latest update from the UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji, the contractor has dredged over 14,000 cubic meters of sand from the lagoon and filled 125 geotextile bags. T
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Louisiana CPRA announces 2025 Parish Matching Program awards
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has announced five recipients of a combined $6 million in 2025 Parish Matching Program awards. The Program is a funding opportunity that partners directly with Parish governments to support critical restoration efforts, said CPRA. “Co
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Ebeye breakwater project in full swing
Hall Contracting Pty Ltd has just released the latest update from the Ebeye breakwater project in the Republic of the Marshall Island (RMI). The first of two 40,000-tonne armor rock shipments arrived on site this week after a 30-day voyage to Ebeye where Hall is constructing a 1.8km seawall. Ahead o
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Trimble VIDEO: Accelerating breakwater construction at Mangalore
Trimble Civil Construction has released a very interesting video named “Accelerating Breakwater Construction with Trimble Marine Construction Systems”. The video introduces the use of Trimble Marine Construction Systems at the Mangalore coastal protection project in India. Coastal erosion was becomi