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USACE hosts ribbon cutting for Athol Springs’ revetment
The USACE Buffalo District hosted a ceremonial ribbon cutting event and media site tour at the Athol Springs project site, Hamburg, NY, November 9, 2020. The ceremony celebrated completion of the $8.2 million, 1,325-foot armor stone revetment of the Lake Erie seawall that will protect Route 5 from L
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Launching the Mineros Aluvial dredger (VIDEO)
ROHR-IDRECO has just released a video of the launching ceremony of Mineros Aluvial’s electrical cuttingwheel dredger. The launching ceremony took place on the 5th of November at the company’s facility in the Netherlands. According to ROHR-IDRECO, many people took part in the final assembly and launc
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Rockaway beach works resume
Beach work on the Rockaway Peninsula is in full swing as the long-awaited East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, and Jamaica Bay Project gets underway in Rockaway, New York. There has been an authorization for the project since 1965, the Rockaway shoreline has experienced severe hurricanes and north
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TSHD Sospan Dau busy at Southsea Seafront
After a delay due to bad weather, the dredger Sospan Dau is finally working at the Southsea Seafront shores. She already sprayed some 5,000m3 of gravel onto the foreshore between Clarence Pier and the Spur Redoubt. “We are currently levelling the dredged material to form the eastern temporary workin
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Spotlight on Southshore and South New Brighton erosion
Proposed options – costing about $12.5 million – to address erosion and flood risk in Southshore and South New Brighton will be considered by the Christchurch City Council this week. “Earthquake legacy issues have been an ongoing concern for Southshore and South New Brighton residents,” said Council
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Building long-term coastal resilience across England
A transformative £200m program to improve the resilience of communities at risk of flooding and coastal change across England has been opened today. Through the government’s new Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Program, managed by the Environment Agency, 25 areas will be selected to pilot new
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NSW Nationals: Main Beach works on the way
NSW Nationals Member for Oxley, Melinda Pavey, has announced $3.6 million for a Coastal Protection Wall project to fund the replacement of the failing sea wall at Main Beach in Nambucca Shire. Mrs Pavey said that a suitably engineered coastal sea wall would be developed and installed, providing esse
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Solving shoaling issues at Cranberry Bend
The USACE’s Kansas City District floating plant headed up the Missouri River Friday morning to work shoaling issues at River Mile 282, also known as Cranberry Bend. “Our teams have been working, along with contractors, different areas of concern on the river to repair river training structures which
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DEME holds virtual naming ceremony
DEME Group has successfully hold the first ever digital naming ceremony for a dredging vessel. Last week, the company hosted this special naming ceremony for its next generation trailing suction hopper dredgers ‘Bonny River’ and ‘Meuse River’. Due to the coronavirus restrictions, the company decided
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Centerm expansion project – November update
The Port of Vancouver, BC, Canada, has announced the latest update on the ongoing Centerm Expansion Project. In the update, the port said that the land over the lagoon in the eastern expansion area continues to settle and will be removed in January 2021. The northeast perimeter dyke is now complete.
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Important award for the Bacton to Walcott scheme
The Bacton to Walcott Sandscaping scheme has won the British Construction Industry Award Climate Resilience Project of the Year 2020, informs Royal HaskoningDHV. The Bacton to Walcott Sandscaping scheme is a large-scale beach nourishment, designed to protect the Bacton Gas Terminal and surrounding c
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First virtual naming ceremony for DEME
DEME Group has just announced that the company is about to hold their first ever virtual naming ceremony. “We are getting ready for our first ever virtual naming ceremony of our next generation trailing suction hopper dredgers ‘Meuse River’ and ‘Bonny River’,” the company announced. “Although we can
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Beach recycling along Eastoke frontage begins
Working with Havant Borough Council, Coastal Partners will carry out beach recycling along the Eastoke frontage, to reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion to properties and infrastructure. Works will commence on Monday, 9th November, and will be completed by the 27th of November 2020. The p
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Canney: flooding should not be politicized
Independent TD Seán Canney said he has met with Minister Patrick O’Donovan to “flesh out a proposal” to create a Local Improvement Scheme for rivers and channels in need of dredging. “I have requested the Minister for the OPW Patrick O ’Donovan TD to organize a meeting of all TD’s along the River Sh