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 [...]
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The Elkhart River Restoration Association (ERRA) is holding a public meeting to present information and receive input on a dredging plan for the Goshen Dam Pond. The meeting will take place January 29, 2013 at 6:30 P.M. at the Linway Cinema Coffee Shop, 514 West Lincoln Avenue, Goshen. All interested parties are encouraged to attend [...]
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After a large amount of fish was found dead at the Queen Sirikit Park pond, the dredging project undertaken at this area has been put on hold, according to phuketgazette.net. One Phuket Town resident stated: “We noticed fish dying after the dredging began a few days ago, but today was the first time we have [...]
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On Monday, at the Special Town Meeting, the city officials approved funding for the Milford Pond dredging program. Town authorities plan to dredge 12 feet of muck from the pond, so it can be used recreationally, according to milforddailynews.com. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to oversee the project and cover 65 percent [...]
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to offer all necessary resources to the Sandy Pond Channel Maintenance Association (SPCMA) to help stop further buildup of sand in the channel connecting Sandy Pond to Lake Ontario. The accumulation of sand in the channel has prevented boaters from entering and exiting [...]
Measurement Technology NW (MTNW) & Thern announce successful installation and commissioning of winch monitoring systems at the US Army Corp drinking water settling pond site, Georgetown Reservoirs in Washington, DC. Thern & MTNW collaborated with Liquid Waste Technologies (LWT), Archer Western, and CH2M Hill to develop and install a winch instrumentation retrofit that monitored tension [...]
The town of Charlestown is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District for work in waters of the United States to dredge Ninigret Pond and place the material in the intertidal zone to nourish Charlestown Beach in Charlestown, Rhode Island. The town of Charlestown is proposing to perform maintenance [...]
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The issue of dredging Valley View Pond or turning it into a marsh will again be discussed by the Downers Grove Village Council, says mysuburbanlife.com. Valley View Pond project entails the removal of accumulated silt deposits from the bottom of Valley View Estates Pond/O’Brien Park in order to improve the quality of water within the [...]
State Senator Patty Ritchie announced good news for boaters and residents in the area of Sandy Pond in Oswego County. Working with residents and county, state and federal officials, Senator Ritchie has won approval for an early start to dredging the sand-choked channel that connects the pond to Lake Ontario, adding a full month to [...]
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The State Fair Pond in Minot is closed due to construction projects prompted by last year’s Souris River flood. Located on the north end of the fairgrounds in the State Game and Fish Department’s Conservation and Outdoors Skills Park, the pond will reopen July 20 on opening day of the North Dakota State Fair. Greg [...]
