Moffatt & Nichol welcomes Bruce Ostbo, PE, SE, who joins as a Senior Project Manager for the Seattle office. With more than 31 years of experience, Mr. Ostbo has performed a variety of engineering services for waterfront and marine projects for structures ranging from boat launches and simple docks
The Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system from Allahabad to Haldia for a length of 1620 km in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal has been declared as National Waterway (NW-1) in 1986. This waterway is an alluvial river which has typical characteristics of large variation i
Crews have completed a major dredging project at Marathon’s Peninsula Harbour. A $7.3 million operation to put down a 20 centimetre layer “cap” of coarse sand over an area of 200,000 square metres, was wrapped up at the beginning of this month. According to Kenora Daily News, this dredging project w
The Town of Hillsborough has invited bidders for the dredging and maintenance of Ben Johnston Lake’s dam and reservoir. Bids are due before 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, and will be publicly opened and immediately read aloud after all bids are received and logged at 1 p.m. at the Town Barn, 101 E. Orang
Shamel Abou-El-Seoud, a lead engineer and chief of construction and operations for the Army Corps’ Chicago district, told the state port commission that USACE will request funds to complete an important dredging project for the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor. According to nwitimes.com, these funds lik
Consultants have been appointed to help secure the cash needed to tackle coastal erosion at Clacton and Holland-on-Sea. Tendring District Council (TDC) has awarded a contract to the internationally renowned engineering and development team at Mott Macdonald. The firm has been chosen to produce a pro
Wexford County Council has invited bidders to submit their offers for the sewall repair works. Tenders are invited from suitably qualified and experienced contractors to carry out rehabilitation works to a 120m long section of uncoursed random rubble seawall incorporating the removal of a high level
On July 27, the Bam Nuttall Ltd has won the Kirkwall’s pier construction contract. The works comprise: – A new pier with a deck area of approx. 2900m2 and an approach approx. 95m long by 8m wide, constructed using tubular steel piles with a concrete deck slab, – Supply and installation of pier furni
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine requires the services of a suitably qualified and experienced engineering consultancy firm in connection with dredging works, including dredging and disposal of both contaminated and uncontaminated sediments at the Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Cen
Wasserstraßen-Neubauamt Magdeburg has invited bidders to submit their offers for the dredging disposal services. These works include the disposal services of retrieved dredged material, (for use, recycling or disposal), from the expansion works of the Elbe-Havel Canal waterway. Divided into lots ten
The Washington Department of Ecology seeks public comment on the city of Ridgefield’s new shoreline master program. The shoreline master program will guide construction and development on the city’s shorelines along portions of Lake River and Gee Creek. It combines local plans for future development
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, requires maintenance clamshell dredging of approximately 1 million cubic yards of sediment from the Grays Harbor Inner Harbor Navigation Channel. The performance period includes three periods: Base Period – Award through 31 March 2013; plus two Option
Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) Director Ted Sturdevant has approved the town of Twisp’s comprehensive update to its shoreline master program. Twisp’s program will become part of Okanogan County’s shoreline regulations and the state’s overall shoreline master program (SMP). Twisp’s update
The public is invited to review and comment on draft rule changes to the state’s Sediment Management Standards (SMS) for cleaning up contaminated in-water sediments. In 1991, the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) adopted the SMS rule to guide management of sediments. The SMS rule is used to