All dredging requiring sand placement or interface with Wiggins Pass Beach was completed by May 1 as required by permit to avoid turtle nesting season. A total of 94,000 cubic yards of materials have been placed or removed during the $1,754,000 pass maintenance project conducted by contractor Orion Marine Construction. Dredging activity included straightening the [...]
Just in time for the summer boating season, State Senator Patty Ritchie has announced she has secured $75,000 in state funding to be used for the dredging of the Sandy Pond Channel in Oswego County. On Thursday, Senator Ritchie met with local leaders, community members, business owners and members of the Sandy Pond Channel Maintenance [...]
The City of Destin has contracted with Gator Dredging to dredge the Old Pass Lagoon Channel adjacent to the Marler Bridge in East Pass. The project is scheduled to be completed no later than May 24. Boat access along the harbor and pass sides of Norriego Point are expected to remain open. The emergency dredge [...]
Voies navigables de France has announced a tender for the Deule channel dredging project. This deepening program includes recalibration of the layout of the channel of Deule between Lille and Deûlémont. The project includes dredging of 3,000 tonnes of material from the area bounded by the upstream bridge RD 207a in Sequedin and downstream from [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a contract to Orion Marine Construction Inc., in the amount of $8,927,250 for maintenance dredging of the Houston Ship Channel. The contractor is required to remove approximately two million cubic yards of material between Morgan’s Point and the Exxon Reach to include the Barbours Terminal Channel [...]
The Port of Gulfport is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the feasibility of a 47-foot-deep ship channel in Gulfport, reports The Sunherald. The expansion would be needed to handle the larger ships already docking at other Gulf and East Coast ports. One of the Port’s restoration goals is achieving a deeper [...]
Mayor Villaraigosa joined Geraldine Knatz, Congresswoman Hahn, CM Buscaino, and Colonel Toy (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) in celebrating the completion of the 10-year, $370 million Main Channel Deepening Project. This marks a major milestone in the City and Port’s efforts to remain competitive in the global economy and continue to serve as the nation’s [...]
According to Chris Turner, an engineer with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District, the Wachapreague Channel dredging program will commence in mid-May and should be wrapped up within three to four weeks. “Hopefully when the project is complete we’ll be able to provide a channel depth of at least six feet at [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District completed maintenance dredging of the Houston Ship Channel barge lanes between Bayport and Morgan’s Point to relieve a critical navigation hazard caused by shoaling in the busy waterway. The district issued a modification to an ongoing contract in the amount of $675,000 to Orion Marine Construction Inc. [...]
Virgin Islands Port Authority Executive Director Carlton Dowe announced that the Authority has submitted a joint application to the VI Coastal Zone Management Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the East Gregerie Channel in Crown Bay, St. Thomas, VI. Dowe said the joint application proposes to dredge the north side of [...]
