Anchor QEA recently announced that ten graduate students have been selected for the 2012 Scholarship Program. The scholarship was established by Anchor QEA, an environmental science and engineering consulting firm, to promote and help support graduate students who are majoring in geology, planning a
In another move to assure Alaskans have more say about the use of their lands, Governor Sean Parnell submitted legislation authorizing the State of Alaska to assume primacy from the federal government to administer the regulatory program for managing certain wetlands. “Alaskans should have a bigger
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a task order contract in the amount of $267,807.37 to AECOM Technical Services for Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) survey data collection at 32 dredging placement areas at various locations along the Texas portion of the Gulf Intracoa
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, completed a beach renourishment project on South Padre Island using beach-quality sand harvested from a local dredging project. The district awarded a $3.4 million contract Sept. 27, 2012, to Weeks Marine Inc., which began dredging operations Nov.
Construction of the QR27 billion ($7.4 billion) New Port Project is on track and is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2016, a top official of the project has said. “Progress of the project is on schedule and at present about 10 percent of the construction work is complete while d 38
Port & Terminal Technology USA 2013, established as a “must-attend” key industry event, is scheduled for 11 – 12 April, 2013, and will take place at Marriott Waterside Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia. This conference will offer a diverse and in-depth program delivered by an impressive line-up of industry e
South Korea’s state auditor on Friday panned President Lee Myung-Bak’s $20 billion effort to dredge, dam and beautify four major rivers, saying it was riddled with costly flaws. Revitalizing the Han, Nakdong, Geum and Yeongsan rivers was the centrepiece of the outgoing president’s “Green New Deal”,
Société Merceron TP has won the 3,455,711 EUR dredging contract. This project includes a maintenance dredging work in the Ports of Loctudy and Lesconil, in order to maintain adequate depths in the harbours and access channels. Loctudy is a fishing port and seaside resort in Brittany, France, at the
CCI de Bayonne Pays Basque has invited bidders to submit their offers for the construction and commissioning of a mixed use dredger for optimal maintenance dredging of the depths in the mouth of the Port of Bayonne, access channel and base of dock. The characteristics of this vessel assigned to the
The Fife Council has introduced a plan for the dredging project at the Glenrothes area. The project consists of reducing the accumulated silt on the harbour basin floor and entrance channel by an agitation dredging process which will stimulate the particles into temporary suspension in the water, wh
A study commissioned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has identified problems with the groundwater in the vicinity of the Pearce Creek Confined Disposal Facility, a site the Corps seeks to utilize for maintenance dredge sediment from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal southern approach cha
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has approved King County’s updated shoreline master program. The shoreline program will result significantly improve the protection, use, development and restoration of 2,000 miles of shorelines and the water quality of many marine, river, lake, and str
Dioxin levels in lake-bottom sediments in most areas at the northern tip of Lake Washington are consistent with background soil and sediment concentrations found in the Seattle-area, according to data released today from a joint study by the city of Kenmore (Kenmore) and the Washington Department of
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has approved the city of North Bend’s updated shoreline master program. North Bend’s shoreline program will result in significant improvements in the protection, use, development and restoration along the city’s eight miles of shorelines on the South Fo