A joint public-private project to dredge channels in the Three Bays area wrapped up this week.
Lindsey B. Counsell, executive director of Three Bays Preservation, said the Barnstable County dredge removed 15,000 cubic yards of sediment from channels extending from the entrance to Cotuit Bay to the west end of the Seapuit River.
According to a filing [...]
Stuck is an understatement. Stranded does it no justice. Marooned? Closer, but not quite.
Frozen in the thick mud and sand at the bottom of the James River, the 700-foot, 37,000-ton Monongahela hasn’t budged for more than two weeks.
The wayward ghost fleet ship broke free from its moorings during the nor’easter Nov. 12, floated about a [...]
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has been granted an adjournment debate in the House of Commons.
The debate, due to be held at 1.30pm on Tuesday, December 1 will see Graham calling for the Government to consider commissioning a study of the potential impacts of off-shore dredging on the Holderness coast.
Graham said: “I have [...]
Tons of sand is being removed from the harbor and deposited on the beach.
The largest dredging operation in Morro Bay in nearly a decade is up and running.
The project started a couple of weeks later than originally planned but is still on schedule, said Jim Mills, the engineer overseeing the project for the U.S. Army [...]
The Jakarta administration is waiting for a World Bank loan channeled by the Finance Ministry before starting its project to dredge 13 main rivers.
Deputy Governor Prijanto said he would not discuss the logistics of the Jakarta Emergency Dredging Initiative (JEDI), saying the administration had not yet received further information on the fund.
JEDI is expected to [...]
MELBOURNE’S most popular beach destinations are disappearing and concerned locals blame dredging.
As Port of Melbourne bosses and the Government last week celebrated the completion of the controversial project to deepen a shipping channel in Port Phillip Bay —Mornington Peninsula residents warned their beaches were being washed away.
At its worst, more than 40 metres of beach [...]
The project work consists of excavating shoal material from the project channel to a required depth of 40 feet plus an allowable 2-foot overdepth.
The project includes a base bid and five (5) optional bid Items. The base bid involves removing approximately 207,000 cubic yards of material from Bar Cut 3. Option A is to remove [...]
The work consists of dredging approximately 3,000,000 cubic yards of maintenance material by pipeline dredge at Matagorda Peninsula to Point Comfort. No levee work. Estimated completion time is 180 calendar days.
Estimated solicitation issue date is on or about 27 November 2009. The estimated cost range for this project is between $5 million and $10 million. [...]
After international construction and development major Dubai World failing to repay its huge pile of debt on time, the state of its bids for development of container terminal berths at major ports in India may come under the scanner.
According to senior government officials in the ministry of shipping, the government will now take a call [...]
GuySuCo is unable to boost sugar exports because of the siltation in the Demerara River and the Interim Board has proposed dredging the river.
In the turnaround plan for the sugar industry, the Board proposed a September timeline for GuySuCo and its partners-including government-to have the river dredged but there has been no move in this [...]
