The Redondo Beach replenishment project is expected to be done by the second week of October. “A 36,000 cubic yards of the expected 75,000 cubic yards of sand has been dredged from the channel in Marina del Rey and placed on the beach, and 73,000 cubic yards of 85,000 cubic yards of the near shore [
On September 18, the Port of Skagit has celebrated the start of the Swinomish Channel dredging project. American Construction Co. of Tacoma has won this $1.88 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers. The dredging project will continue for approximately five months, and the channel will not
According to the ABC News, plans for the repair and upgrade needed to Taylor’s Landing boat ramp at Port Augusta are in the final stages. “A 350 cubic metres of material needs to be dredged from the harbour sea floor,” said Brenton Daw, the Port Augusta City Council senior technical officer. He stat
Community action group, Save Our Keppel Island Taskforce (SOKIT), hold grave concerns for local marine life if GKI Resort Pty Ltd proposed Revitalisation Plan goes ahead. GKI Resort’s environmental impact statement (EIS) identifies large volumes of acidic soil in the area of the proposed marina with
After securing and successfully completing two major cable projects in the Irish Sea, and a further fault investigation on an Interconnector underway, the joint venture of Osiris Marine Services and Nordic Offshore Marine look to the spot charter market to provide a cost effective solution to subsea
Parliament has approved a credit facility agreement for an amount of €197 million to finance the design, civil and dredging works at the Takoradi port. The agreement which is between the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority (GPHA) with the government of Ghana as guarantor and the KBC bank NV, Belfius B
The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) has announced that rainy season would hit Jakarta this October. Head of Water Resources Maintenance for East Jakarta Water Management Public Works Sub-Department, Sunarto, stated that his department supports the effort to prevent flood by n
The bridge over the Sheboygan River will be closed to traffic during the next week because of the dredging project. From 7:00 pm to 7:00 AM, September 25-27, 2012, the Eight Street Bridge will be closed. During these periods, Ryba Terra Joint Venture will be dredging approximately 1,400 yards of sed
Italdraghe has expanded its range of electric water jet suction dredgers to match the increasingly demanding requirements of those of its customers dredging deep water lakes, hydro-electric reservoirs, mines and quarries. The one-man operated Rainbow Eco-Dredger with its modular, fully-dismountable
“The $37-million Sydney harbour dredging project was completed to engineered specifications that required the navigational channel to be a minimum depth of 16.5 metres,“ the Sydney Ports Corporation said in Tuesday’s announcement. The dredging project, which began in October last year, was the resul
The Tampa Port Authority authorized more than $9 million in new or continuing contracts, according to bizjournals.com. One of these contracts includes a $4.5 million dredging project with Orion Dredging Services LLC. About the Port The Port of Tampa’s longstanding supremacy among Florida ports is ba
North Dakota’s Water Commission has approved state funding for two dredging projects on the Missouri River in the Bismarck-Mandan area. The 2011 flood altered the river, depositing silt and creating new sandbars. The goal of the dredging projects is to help prevent ice jam flooding. The state will p
Orleans County officials this week called on the federal government to dredge the shallow harbor at the Point Breeze. County officials said that the sediment hasn’t been removed from the Oak Orchard Harbor since 2004. According to thedailynewsonline.com, the harbor is now so shallow in some spots th
The City of Clearwater released its 2012 progress report on implementing its Floodplain Management Plan. The plan, which helps to identify areas in the city that are prone to flooding, enables residents to obtain discounts on flood insurance. The plan serves as a five-year outlook of what residents