Operations & Maintenance
Operations & Maintenance
Spotlight on Hamilton City levee project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District recently reached two important milestones for the small town of Hamilton City, California, located about 100 miles north of Sacramento. Home to just under 2,000 people, the history of Hamilton City includes many flooding events and several near m
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Work to repair breached riverbank on the River Alt gets underway
The Environment Agency have begun work to fix a breached riverbank on the River Alt at Lunt meadows Nature Reserve and flood storage area in the latest phase of response to last month’s floods. The river burst its bank on 20 January during significant and severe rainfall caused by Storm Christoph wh
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South Hayling Beach repairs underway
Following storm events over the Christmas and New Year period, the beach at Eastoke has significantly reduced in height and width, leading to reduced protection to coastal properties. After 10 days of work on site, a survey of the beach at Eastoke has calculated the need for additional shingle mater
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GLDD about to begin Post-Florence beachfill project
The hopper dredge Liberty Island remains on schedule to arrive and begin work on the Phase III of the Post-Florence renourishment project on February 20th, informs the Carteret County Shore Protection Office. “The hopper dredge Liberty Island and Ellis Island have encountered issues at their current
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J.E. McAmis placing the first stones at the Lake Worth Inlet
J.E. McAmis has started placing the first stones at the Lake Worth Inlet in Palm Beach County, FL. According to the company, this work is unique as all stones will be placed from a barge as opposed to from the top of the jetty. The project is being performed for the U.S. Army Corps of […]
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Spotlight on Port of Alaska dredging
With 55 days until the 75th anniversary of the Corps Alaska District, USACE is looking at a project that they have been working on for a long time – dredging the Port of Alaska. Through the years, various dredges have worked to keep the waterway clear because underwater shoals in Cook Inlet cause se
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PrimeBMD completes MICT works
PrimeBMD – a construction and infrastructure development company in the Philippines – recently completed maintenance dredging project for the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT). The maintenance dredging is crucial in maintaining designated channel and berth depths to ensure the continued
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Lydd Ranges scheme set for April
The Environment Agency will this April begin works on the Lydd Ranges sea defence scheme. The plan is to improve the existing frontage and to maintain the sea defence along the existing alignment. Once completed it will help better protect this environmentally important area and the Ministry of Defe
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Cottrell bags Kings Bay Submarine Base dredging contract
Cottrell Contracting Corp., Chesapeake, Virginia, recently won a $9.42 million contract for maintenance dredging of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Camden County, Georgia. According to the Army Corps, Kings Bay Submarine Base project consists of maintenance dredging within the Naval Submarine Base K
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All set for Carlsbad dredging project
Carlsbad beaches will soon have more sand as a result of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon dredging project – starting this February until mid April, informs the City of Carlsbad, California. The lagoon has been dredged every one to four years since 1954 as part of the Encina power plant operations. The last
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Muddy River dredging to cause temporary lane closures
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has announced upcoming lane closures on Riverway and Netherlands Road as dredging activities continue to progress on Phase 2 of the $36.5 million Muddy River Flood Risk Management project in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts. According to the
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Okeechobee Waterway dredging set for late February
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has just announced that they will begin dredging sections of the Okeechobee Waterway (OWW) in the vicinity of Jensen Beach and Stuart (Reach 3) and Palm City (Reach 4) by the end of February 2021. According to the Corps, maintenance dredging a
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Manson wins Alaska dredging contract
The Seattle-based Manson Construction Co. has won $9.85 million contract for maintenance dredging in the Port of Alaska. According to USACE, the work will be performed in Anchorage with an estimated completion date of January 26, 2022. An important aspect of the Anchorage maintenance dredging contra
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Rosmorport hopper dredgers busy in Kaliningrad
Three modern and powerful dredgers of FSUE “Rosmorport” began dredging works in the Kaliningrad Sea Canal after a break caused by ice formations. According to Rosmorport, the dredgers engaged in the operations are Yuri Maslyukov, Severnaya Dvina and Beloye More. During the works, they will remove ar