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New York City to construct sewage retention tanks for Gowanus Canal cleanup
The City of New York is about to build two Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) retention tanks to control contaminated solids discharges at the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, NY. As ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the city will construct and operate two CSO retention
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CRMC funding for habitat restoration projects
The R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) has awarded funding for seven habitat restoration projects in the 18th year of its RI Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Trust Fund (CEHRF). The Council approved the funding at a semi-monthly meeting earlier this month. Included in the fund
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WEDA webinar on beneficial use of dredged sediments
Western Dredging Association (WEDA) is about to hold their next webinar, Development of a Guidance Manual for Determining the Environmental Suitability of Dredged Sediments for Beneficial Uses in the Great Lakes, on Friday, March 12, 2021, from 2 to 3 PM EST. The webinar – jointly developed by the A
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Creating natural habitats from dredged material
The progress made by DEME and Van Oord joint venture in Poland can easily be seen from space. At the Świnoujście-Szczecin fairway dredging project, two circular islands, which will serve as natural habitats, are gradually rising out of the water. The outline of the northern island is nearing compl
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Jan De Nul dredgers 1st to receive new Bureau Veritas ultra-low emissions notation
Jan De Nul Group’s newest trailing suction hopper dredgers – SANDERUS, ORTELIUS, TRISTÃO DA CUHNA, AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE, and DIOGO CÃO – are the first ships to receive the new notation of Bureau Veritas (BV) that recognizes the performance of ultra-low emission vessels (ULEVs). These JDN vessels ar
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HR Wallingford to hold dredging management course
HR Wallingford announced recently that their four-day dredging management online course will take place this February. According to the company, this online course will provide an overview of the environmental aspects of dredging, the latest technology and equipment that apply to dredging and the ma
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JDN’s first 100% sustainable beach replenishment project in Belgium
Jan De Nul Group is the first dredging company to carry out 100% sustainable beach replenishments, announced JDN in the release. Moreover, this world first has taken place at the Belgian coast. From 1st February, Jan De Nul will deposit about 500,000 cubic metres of sand on the beach of Raversijde b
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$1M grant for wetland restoration in Georgetown County, SC
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $1 million National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) for wetland restoration on the Lower Middleton complex at Samworth Wildlife Management Area in Georgetown County. The grant was compl
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Major milestone for the Esquimalt Harbour project
After months of hard work, the $162.5 million-Esquimalt Harbour Remediation Project has reached a major milestone with the completion of remediation at the Y-Jetty & Lang Cove site, reports Fraser River Pile and Dredge (FRPD). Beginning in January 2019, the Y-Jetty & Lang Cove Remediation Project fo
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Construction of the Marker Wadden islands (VIDEO)
More than four years after the start of the construction of the Marker Wadden in the Markermeer Lake, the Netherlands, Boskalis visited this nature reserve to capture the developments on and around the five islands. Building with Nature techniques played a key role in this innovative project that Bo
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EPA finalizes cleanup plan for Housatonic River
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Revised Final Permit for the Rest of River cleanup plan of the Housatonic River. The Revised Final Permit, issued under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), spells out the required cleanup measures to be followed by General El
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Important award for Royal IHC in China
This week, Royal IHC won an Excellent Paper Award at the Technical Forum of CHIDA, which took place on December 14 and 15 in Shenzhen. The paper is titled ‘Developments for sustainable dredging equipment’. Sustainability is an important driver for product developments within IHC, with focus on exhau
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Gowanus Canal dredging in full swing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently began historic full-scale dredging of Gowanus Canal Superfund Site in Brooklyn, New York. This is a major milestone in the history of one of the nation’s most contaminated waterways. According to EPA, the dredging and capping will take place in
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Webinar on best practice guideline for dredge plume modelling
CSIRO and the Western Australian Marine Science Institution will next week, Friday 11th December, hold an information webinar to outline the Guideline on Dredge Plume Modelling for Environmental Impact Assessment. The guideline provides current best practice for dredge plume modelling in the context