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Dredging works at Urmston Road move ahead
With immediate effect and for a period of approximately one month, dredging operations will be carried out within Urmston Road, a broad body of water between Lantau Island and Tuen Mun in Hong Kong. The works will be carried out by one grab dredger. Two split hopper barges and three tugboats will pr
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Joyce secures critical projects for NEOH in FY21 Work Plan
Ohio Congressman Dave Joyce announced last week that several projects critical to Northeast Ohio and the Great Lakes have been incorporated in the fiscal year 2021 (FY21) USACE Work Plan for the Army Civil Works program. The projects include the preconstruction of the Asian carp barrier at Brandon R
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LTC David Park tours Philly to Trenton maintenance dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District’s Commander LTC David Park recently joined the Safety and Operations teams on a visit to the ongoing Philly to Trenton maintenance dredging project. USACE contractor, Resilient Seas, is working to dredge portions of the federal channel. The prog
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USACE: $54M for repairing Missouri River navigation channel
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced its 2021 civil works, work plan, which provides funding for the Corps to address water resource issues across the nation. These work plans include approximately $54 million for the repair of several navigation structures along the Missouri River that we
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Duluth sediment cleanup deal inked
The U.S. EPA and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency have signed a $16 million project agreement to remediate contaminated sediment in the “ponds behind Erie Pier,” two backwater ponds surrounded by shallow marsh wetlands in Duluth, Minnesota. “EPA’s partnership with Minnesota continues to produce re
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Work kicks off on Ocean Reef Marina new breakwaters
Construction works on two breakwaters for the exciting Ocean Reef Marina project are underway, reports the Government of Western Australia. The two-kilometre-long breakwaters, each rising up to 18.5 metres from the ocean floor, will protect boats and users within the marina. The breakwaters will hav
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Eastman Aggregate wins Sunny Isles Beach contract
The USACE Jacksonville District yesterday awarded a $14 million contract to Eastman Aggregate Enterprises for the Sunny Isles Beach shoreline renourishment project. Under the official plan – part of the Miami-Dade County Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project – Eastman Aggregate will
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Smith Mountain dredge prohibited between February 15 and June 15
The four-month ban on dredging within the Smith Mountain Project lake boundaries begins next month, the Smith Mountain Project informs. The ban – which runs from February 15 to June 15 – helps protect the fish habitat during spawning season. Property owners and contractors attempting to dredge withi
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Gelendzhik seaport project on display
Last week, a working meeting was held in the seaport of Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, under the chairmanship of the Deputy Head of Rosmorrechflot Vladislav Stavitsky regarding the implementation of the project “Complex of coastal and marine infrastructure in the seaport of Gelendzhik”. The mee
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PHOTO: Dredge ‘DB Ironbound’ working in the Port of Hueneme
Curtin Maritime Corp. of Long Beach, California, has just released this beautiful photo of the dredge ‘DB Ironbound’ from the Port of Hueneme deepening project. The dredge is currently working in the approach channel while one of the company’s survey boats collects some fresh hydrographic data. The
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Summer 2022 – New target date for San Rafael dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) last week released its 2021 Work Plan for projects the Corps would execute during the FY 2021 cycle – including all dredging activities summer/fall 2021. San Rafael, CA, was not funded in this cycle for the dredging of its federal channel. Though the dredging
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Oost-Nederland contract for Heijmans
Heijmans has won a five-year contract for the maintenance of waterways in the central-eastern part of the Netherlands (Oost-Nederland). The performance contract, awarded by the Dutch Ministry of Public Works and Waterways, covers the Boven-Rijn and Waal rivers and the Maas-Waal canal and represents
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$140.5M in FY21 Work Plan for Buffalo District
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, will receive a total of $140,542,000 in the Fiscal Year 2021 Work Plan to complete projects across the District’s area of responsibility. This includes the $34,405,000 the District had already received in the Fiscal Year 2021 President’s Budget. “T
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CSD MOHAB MAMEESH ready for sea trials
Royal IHC’s newly built cutter suction dredger MOHAB MAMEESH has successfully completed its basin trials, the shipbuilder reports. According to IHC, after the basin trials, the newbuild will go out to sea once again, this time for dredging trials. The MOHAB MAMEESH is one of two vessels currently un