The US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District is seeking sources for a construction project titled, Lower Snake and Clearwater Rivers Navigation Maintenance Dredging. This will be a fixed price construction contract. Place of performance is Franklin, Whitman, Asotin, and Garfield Counties in Washington State and Nez Perce County in Idaho. Construction magnitude is [...]
Senator Alan Bates (D-Medford) joined a coalition of fishers, rafters, conservationists, and other river users to encourage the state to evaluate and potentially curb a new wave of suction-dredge mining on the Rogue, Chetco, and other area rivers and creeks. “Southern Oregon is home to thousands of us who consider our peaceful, pristine rivers a [...]
The Army Corps’s decision to dredge parts of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers has received support from the Clarkston City Council, reports klewtv.com. The larger vessels aren’t able to pass through certain parts of the mentioned rivers, according to Mayor Kathleen Warren. She added that the council voted unanimously for her to send a letter [...]
South Korea’s state auditor on Friday panned President Lee Myung-Bak’s $20 billion effort to dredge, dam and beautify four major rivers, saying it was riddled with costly flaws. Revitalizing the Han, Nakdong, Geum and Yeongsan rivers was the centrepiece of the outgoing president’s “Green New Deal”, a bold plan to create jobs after the 2008 [...]
The Bangladesh Minister of Agriculture, Begum Matia Chowdhury today called on the Union Minister of Water Resources, Shri Harish Rawat here in New Delhi. During the meeting, discussions were held on matters of common interest including sharing of waters of Teesta and other common rivers, irrigation projects in Bangladesh, Tipaimukh Hydro-Electric Project, dredging of rivers [...]
![Philippines: Dagupan City Calls for Rivers Dredging]()
Rivers in the city are in need of dredging as they are already heavily silted to the point that most of them are less than two meters deep. City Vice-Mayor Belen T. Fernandez cited the rivers traversing barangays Pantal, Pogo Grande, Lasip Grande and Malued as having this condition, based on the findings by the [...]
![UK: NFU Calls for Rivers Dredging]()
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) claimed that the failure by the Environment Agency to regularly dredge rivers could be increasing the risk of flooding, BBC reports. After Wales endured one of its wettest summers on record, NFU urged the agency to resume full-time dredging. An Environment Agency Wales spokeswoman said: “We will always remove any [...]
![Nigeria: Government OKs Ibadan Rivers Dredging]()
The Oyo State government gives its nod for the dredging of six rivers in Ibadan metropolis. “The government plans to dredge the Odo-Ona river; Odo-Ona bridge; Oke- Ayo river and Onideure/Igbagi river, among others,” said Mr. Wasiu Oladimeji, the state Commissioner for Environment and Habitat. According to tribune.com, he said that the government would leave [...]
![Nigeria: Group Lauds Governor over Oyo Rivers Dredging]()
According to theeagleonline.com, Oyó Patriotic Front organization has commended Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State for the dredging projects within the Ibadan area. The Chairman of the organisation, Chief Jare Adepoju, in a statement on Monday in Ibadan, said “without the dredging of the rivers, Ibadan, the state capital, would probably have witnessed another flood [...]
According to tempointeractive.com, the Jakarta Emergency Dredging Initiative will be applied to 13 rivers in Jakarta starting this October. The project will be undertaken by the Jakarta administration in collaboration with the Ciliwung-Cisadane Center and Cipta Karya. The tender process was completed this July and involved 14 companies from 8 countries. “We will begin the [...]
