The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with local sponsor Port of Everett, began maintenance dredging of the lower channel of the Everett Harbor and Snohomish River on October 31. The Corps awarded a contract to Portable Hydraulic Dredging, LLC. for $1.2 million. Around 90,000 cubic yards
The Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership will hold a public exhibition on Thursday, 10th November, to present best coastal protection option for the Hill Head Sea Defense Scheme Phase 2. Following the recent completion of the phase 1, ESCP has identified the leading option to construct a new seawall.
The 25th NSW Coastal Conference 2016 will take place from 9-11 November in Novotel Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbor, on the mid north coast of NSW. The conference will bring together over 220 delegates from around Australia who are interested in or working within the field of coastal and estuary man
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. recently announced that the trade union CNV Vakmensen has agreed to the social plan related to the previously announced fleet rationalization. Few weeks ago, the Dutch Works Council of Boskalis agreed to the fleet rationalization and the related social plan. In Novemb
On the heels of another record-breaking year for both cargo and cruise passengers, $33 million in State grants have been allocated to PortMiami over the next five years. This is another important step that will help the Port better respond to the next generation of cruise and cargo business. The pos
A visit to the site of a flood prevention scheme in West Sussex provided a group of civil engineering students from the University of Brighton with a valuable glimpse of ‘what collaborative engineering work looks like’. Taking place last Monday, October 24, around 45 students visited the Clay’s Lake
The USACE Detroit District’s dredge material disposal facility on Cat Island is proving to be an environmental success as wildlife begins to return to the area. Since 2014, just one year into the project, over 385,000 cubic yards of clean dredge material from the Green Bay Harbor (outer) has been pl
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), along with Save The Bay and other partners, announced on Wednesday that work is now underway on an improvement project at the Sapowet Marsh Wildlife Management Area in Tiverton. The project, slated for completion in spring 2017, supports
The Santa Cruz Harbor announced recently that the entrance channel dredging operations are scheduled to begin on November 7, 2016. The dredge crew will mobilize the Port District’s new 16″ hydraulic dredge Twin Lakes for the dredging project. The Entrance dredging will continue through April 30, 201
High and increasing flows along the River Murray into South Australia have improved conditions at the Murray Mouth and reduced the need for dredging, the Office of the Water and River Murray Minister, Ian Hunter, said in its latest announcement. One of the two dredgers removing sand from the Mouth s
The Mianus River dredging project, which will be completed under the terms of a $2.2 million contract recently awarded by the USACE’s New England District, officially started last week. Work will be accomplished by Coastline Consulting and Development, LLC of Branford, Conn. This cleanup scheme was
EIK Engineering has successfully delivered an EIK CAT323D2L amphibious excavator to a customer in Turkey. The excavator, delivered and assembled last month, will be used by the government to carry out maintenance of the river beds, swamps, lakes, ponds and reservoirs. EIK salesperson and service tea
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, has received a Section 408 permission request from the Port of Anchorage to modify an existing federal dredging project as part of the Anchorage Port Modernization Program. The port’s program consists of five phases to replace and modernize existing
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (October 24-30, 2016). PHOTO: Wasa Expands Its Dredging Fleet Wasa Dredging, a Finnish marine offshore and inland water construction company, has just released a photo of its new 140 ton multi-purpose land machine
