Dr. Steve Mathies, a renowned expert in ecosystem restoration and sustainable urban and coastal development, has joined ENVIRON as a Principal in the firm’s New Orleans, Louisiana, office. Dr. Mathies will direct the firm’s strategic services aimed at helping communities, government agencies and com
Egypt launched the New Suez Canal project in August 2014. The construction was ordered by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to be completed in one year. The New Suez Canal will partially run in parallel to the current waterway and partially entail widening and deepening of existing parts there
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District’s Dredger Potter, built in 1932 during the Great Depression, recently completed another successful dredging season on the Middle Mississippi. During the season, she moved more than 3.2 million cubic yards of sediment – enough to cover a football fi
The European Union has decided to embark on a €14 million TEN-T Programme that will improve sea connections across the Dover Strait. The TEN-T Programme, established by the European Commission to support the construction and upgrade of transport infrastructure across the EU, will back the improvemen
Mark Boedtker, an engineering technical lead for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, concluded an inspection of a completed levee improvement project near the American River’s Mayhew levee in Sacramento, California, on January 14, 2015. The inspection marked the fourth completed le
Rep. Gael Tarleton has introduced a bill, HB 1162, that would limit the use of suction dredging in Washington rivers and streams. Suction dredging is mostly unregulated in Washington state. Tarleton’s bill would require the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a workgroup and study the
Rep. Grace F. Napolitano was elected unanimously yesterday to serve as Ranking Member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. “We look to continue working on a bipartisan basis to fix our nation’s crumbling water infrastructure and secure a reliable wa
Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. and the University of Hawaii (UH) have jointly developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can effectively deploy seafloor sensing equipment by combining features of a free-swimming AUV and those of a bottom crawling vehicle. This ‘hybrid’ autonomous unde
Van Oord’s Flexible Fall Pipe Vessel (FFPV) ‘Nordnes’ has been refitted at Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen under a tight schedule with the Seatools completing upgrades of the vessel’s Fall Pipe ROV (remotely operated vehicle). The FPROV is an underwater robot that steers the mouth of the fall pipe, ther
Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. (ORBA) Director Michael J. Kovacs, CPA will be speaking at the Association of Marina Industries’ International Marina & Boatyard Conference (IMBC), taking place January 28-30 in Tampa, Florida. Mr. Kovacs’s session, “Reducing The Most Hated Expense of Marina Owners—
The Department of Transport and the Jurien Boat Harbour Steering Committee have begun maintenance dredging of the Jurien Bay with operations likely to continue until late March, 2015. It is expected the dredging will remove significant amounts of seagrass wrack and sand from the harbour seabed, deli
The dredging works on 43 km of waterways in the northern part of North-Holland officially started on November 6, 2014. To obtain an optimization between value and price, the Province of North-Holland tendered the project as a ‘Best Value Procurement’ contract. De Vries & van de Wiel (DEME Group) has
Marlink has been selected to provide high-end VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) services for the fleet of the international dredging and offshore contractor Van Oord. The contract is expected to include 30 vessels being supported by Marlink’s customized VSAT services by the end of 2015. Marlink’s
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just released an article explaining how climate change influences the river deltas and what has been done to mitigate the risk. Asia has many major, important river deltas, including the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in India/Bangladesh, whic
