The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) yesterday continued its quarterly “Estero Blitz” in an effort to clear the creeks and waterways of Metro Manila and avoid the recurrence of dangers brought by calamities like ‘Ondoy.’ MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino led yesterday’s morning resumption of the cleanup and dredging operations at the heavily-silted Estero De Vitas [...]
The Lands and Survey Department has been given six months to work out a win-win situation mechanism following its decision to give Sabah Economic Development Corporation (Sedco) the exclusive right of managing the State’s river sand extraction. Director, Datuk Osman Jamal said this showed that the move was not a monopoly exercise. He said the [...]
Tony Tomlinson, Falmouth harbour commissioner stated that the harbour dredging project could commence within two months. “We have had ten years of seeing the goalposts moved and of having obstacles put in our way,” added Tomlinson. Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union said large cruise liners would be able to dock at Falmouth [...]
As part of ongoing agreements with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and Indian River County, the Sebastian Inlet District will be dredging sand from the Sebastian Inlet sand trap and its interior navigation channel and placing the sand on the downdrift beaches in Indian River County. The project will include placing sand [...]
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has begun the dredging of city canals in order to get ready for the arrival of heavy rain. Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Deputy Governor Wallop Suwandee said on Saturday that he has urged officers at the Department of Drainage and Sewerage to speedily draw a conclusion on the dredging of all [...]
The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), in cooperation with the Town of Charlestown, will be conducting a maintenance dredging of the sedimentation basin in Ninigret Pond, as part of the South Coast Restoration project. The dredging will be done to maintain flow and sedimentation to an area where eelgrass restoration done in previous [...]
A new battle has emerged in the fight over proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Department of State Lands recently issued a permit allowing the Port of Coos Bay to conduct the largest dredging project in an estuary in state history. The permit allows for dredging of the first 1.75 million [...]
The government has planned to take a 15-year action plan for proper river management and dredging of the country’s major rivers, reports UNB. “A 15-year pragmatic action plan will be taken to conduct capital dredging, river and spoil earth management, maintain dredging work module, recover land and develop the fisheries resources,” Water Resources Minister Ramesh [...]
As shippers continue to complain about the shallowness of the Demerara River and coastal riverain communities worry about persistent flooding, a private company has invested in a dredge to ease the problems. GAICO Construction and General Services Inc. has purchased a US$450,000 dredge, said to be the first of its kind in Guyana, to help [...]
“The city has come up with a million dollars for the Martinez Marina dredging plan,” said Craig Paulsen, Harbor Master. City staff member Mitch Austin outlined the latest plan for the marina Wednesday, using about $1 million in the Shell donation and the city’s share of Measure WW funds – an East Bay Regional [...]
