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Greater Manchester flood alleviation scheme about to begin
Enabling works on a £56m flood alleviation scheme, which will reduce the flood risk for the towns of Littleborough and Rochdale, Greater Manchester, will get underway in the coming weeks. The new scheme is led by the Environment Agency in partnership with Rochdale Borough Council, Network Rail, the
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Restoring California coast and San Francisco Bay
The Board of the California State Coastal Conservancy earlier this week awarded over $16.9 million to 13 projects to protect and restore the California coast and San Francisco Bay. Among these grant awards were over $4.4 million from the US Fish and Wildlife Service National Coastal Wetlands Grant P
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Boost for seawall protection work in Lake Illawarra
The NSW Government will provide more than $273,000 in funding to construct a seawall in Lake Illawarra at Windang to protect a local reserve and properties from coastal erosion. Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward, said that the work will be managed by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
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Battle continues to float Ever Given, two dredgers on the job
The 20,000 TEU MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, is still grounded in Suez Canal, according to Canal service provider Leth Agencies. The colossal ship, spanning 400 meters in length and 59 meters in width, ran aground on March 23, at 6 nautical miles fr
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ICE Sustainability Award for Fairhaven to Church Scar scheme
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) North West has recognized the Fairhaven to Church Scar scheme as Sustainability Project of the year. The project, to protect over 2,400 properties from coastal erosion began work on site in 2018 after some years of project development and stretches from Fairh
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Next milestone in the construction of CSD Hussein Tantawy
After the successful placement of spud towers on board the Suez Canal Authority’s new cutter suction dredger Hussein Tantawy, Royal IHC has completed another construction milestone with the installation of both spuds. “The sun was shining down on our team when they installed the deep-blue spuds on t
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Otter Creek dredging kicks off
The U.S. EPA has officially kicked off dredging of contaminated sediment from a 7-mile stretch of Otter Creek which extends through Toledo and Oregon, Ohio, before flowing into Maumee Bay. The Maumee Area of Concern was identified by the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s as one of the most e
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Rock shoreline protection project in Cameron Parish wraps up
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) yesterday announced the completion of another segment of rock breakwaters at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish. The Rockefeller Shoreline Protection project expanded the area’s rock shoreline by 3,414 linear feet, adding e
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Hawke Bay Regional Council: Mitigating effects of climate change
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is proposing another step up in the environmental work it accelerated in 2018, by investing an extra $10.5 million on the services it delivers to the Hawke’s Bay region and $14.7 million on infrastructure and capital projects in 2021-22. The draft Long-Term Plan for 2021
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Asenso-Boakye tours Odaw dredging works
The Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has visited various drainage sites in Accra, Ghana, to assess drainage works being undertaken by the Ministry. The sites included the Odaw-Onyasia confluence at Caprice, Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Upper and Lower Korle lagoons where Messrs Dredge
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Tunstall coastal scheme about to begin
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is working with the Environment Agency and the South Holderness Internal Drainage Board on a new £600,000 scheme to replace the eroding embankment on the Holderness coastline near Tunstall with a new defense further inland, to control any sea water entering Tunstall
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Preparations underway for Oceanside Harbor dredging
The Army Corps announced recently that Manson Construction will be begin mobilization to dredge Oceanside Harbor on April 5, 2021. “That is the date the riverbed will be fenced to protect wildlife and equipment will begin arriving in Lot #12,” the City of Oceanside Harbor said in their latest statem
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Keeping Gold Coast Sand Bypass System in good shape
High voltage switch gear which keeps the Gold Coast’s Sand Bypass System pumping is about to undergo a major upgrade, the Gold Coast Waterways Authority reports. “We’ve awarded a $1.2 million contract for the work to locally based firm, TEW Solutions,” GCWA said. “The investment is vital because the
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Environment Agency: 300,000 homes protected from flooding
The Environment Agency and partners have completed more than 700 projects to better protect more than 300,000 homes since 2015. Exceeding its target in delivering the government’s £2.6 billion investment in flood and coastal defense schemes since 2015, the Environment Agency and partners have comple