Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) has resumed pre-construction activities in Alviso, California, delivering on a long-made promise to protect shoreline communities in Santa Clara County from devastating flooding. The work on the South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Project started in May
The Port of Mariupol dredging program, undertaken by Technical Bureau Azimut LLC, is officially underway, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) reports. The grab dredger Seal Sands arrived in Mariupol Port on July 1 and already kicked off the dredging operations. This is the first of three vessel
The ACCROPODE II armor layer works on a breakwater at the new Deep Water Port of Kuantan in Malaysia are set to be completed by the end of the year by the joint venture IJM-CHEC, Concrete Layer Innovations (CLI) announced today. The owner’s representative ECERDC has requested CLI to implement a Comp
Long-term coastal management works to address erosion along Quinns Beach will continue in the coming financial year, reports the City of Wanneroo, Western Australia. As outlined in the city’s recently adopted 2019/20 budget, $2.1 million has been allocated for stage three works, which encompass the
An annual coastal maintenance work to ensure safe navigation at Mandurah Ocean Entrance and to widen Town Beach is officially underway, the Government of Western Australia’s Department of Transport (DoT) announced today. DoT General Manager of Coastal Infrastructure, Steve Jenkins, said that the ann
BAM International has just announced that their jetty project team at Kitimat, Canada, already started working on a first series of six foundation piles for a trestle – part of new Rio Tinto Aluminium BC Works wharf. Together with JJM Construction (Canada) and Manson Construction (USA), BAM has been
The Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) is to release a synthesis of research report on one of the largest single-issue environmental science programs in Australia that gained unprecedented access to industry dredging data. The Dredging Science Node has been recognized by industry
Ports North’s Port Master Planning Project has taken an important step forward with the appointment of GHD Advisory to undertake a detailed technical plan that will map out options for developing the Ports of Cairns and the Port of Mourilyan over a 30-year timeframe. Commenting the latest news, Tran
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (July 1-7, 2019). One Killed in Calcasieu Accident The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles is conducting a Marine Casualty Investigation in collaboration with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, is inviting comments on a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed South San Diego Harbor dredging project in San Diego, California. USACE, as part of its Operations and Maintenance Program, is proposing to perform maintenance dredg
The National Land Agency (NLA) and Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will facilitate hydrographic surveys of the seabed in the country’s territorial waters, the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) reports. The agreement will be executed under the auspices
The Lakehead Region Conservation Authority (LRCA) has just announced that the authority will undertake maintenance dredging of the Neebing-McIntyre Floodway in Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. The dredging area is located between the William Street bridge and the Balmoral Street bridge. According to LRCA, t
The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles is conducting a Marine Casualty Investigation in collaboration with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Law Enforcement Division to determine the cause of Wednesday’s vessel allision with a dredge pipeline operating on the Calcasieu
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and officials in the Two Rivers region of northeastern Monmouth County will host an open house about the ‘Two Rivers, One Future’ regional resilience plan on Wednesday, July 10. The open house for this coastal protection campaign is a part