The Rewa River re-dredging project has been postponed for the next one or two years, reports fbc.com. The main reason for the changing of the original dredging plan is money. The Rewa River dredging funds have been diverted for the re-dredging of the Ba River. Regarding this issue, Commissioner Central Lieutenant Colonel Bale Tuitubou, stated: [...]
The Bald Head Island dredging program will commence a little later than expected, reports wwaytv3.com. The dredger has arrived, but a pipe still needs to be shipped, announced the Village of Bald Head Island. The Army Corps of Engineers was expected to begin with the sand pumping next week, but this issue will push back [...]
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The long awaited dredging program at the swimming and beach area at Lake Gregory has been postponed again, reports mountain-news.com. Rick Dinon, chairperson for the Lake Gregory Improvement Committee, stated: “We were told that the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board wanted new conditions for doing the dredging.” He added: “The plan proposed by Regional [...]
ELIS SEIS Public meeting scheduled for today in New York has been postponed due to the recovery efforts in Long Island. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) jointly regulate dredged material disposal under federal authorities provided by section 404 of the Clean Water Act and section 103 [...]
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According to nwitimes.com, the equipment for the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal dredging project still has not been delivered. Mike Nguyen, project manager, stated: ”Contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were scheduled to begin removing contaminated sediment from the waterways early this month, but operations are now expected to begin in late October.” [...]
Federal officials could issue a new flood map within weeks that would require hundreds of homeowners in poor Syracuse neighborhoods to buy costly flood insurance, reports syracuse.com. Engineers need more time to study the effect of dredging Onondaga Creek. Director of mayoral initiatives asked FEMA representatives to delay issuing the new flood map. Over the [...]
After 2 years of the Hudson River dredging, crews from the Environmental Protection Agency will be returning to the river this season. The EPA was originally scheduled to finish their review of the PCB contamination and cleanup by the end of this month, but recently decided to extend the review one more month. The [...]
Acording to LoHud.com, the federal Environmental Protection Agency this week decided to take another month as it completes its five-year review of the efforts to remove PCBs from the upper Hudson River. Some environmental groups and officials had publicly worried the agency wasn’t allowing enough time to perform the review. Only two years of dredging [...]
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is postponing Thursday evening’s public meeting to discuss a draft environmental assessment of proposed nearshore sediment placement sites near the mouth of the Columbia River. The meeting was to be held at the Port of Ilwaco but the Corps determined a larger venue is needed to accommodate the number [...]
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A five-phase project to renovate the marina at Presque Isle in Marquette is literally between a rock and hard place. City engineers announced that the marina piers have deteriorated to the point that the rock inside them has crumbled and spilled out into the lake bottom. This would make phase one of the marina project, [...]
