The Park Shore Beach Renourishment Project started yesterday, Collier County said. According to the County, the project is needed to replenish the beach which experiences natural erosion throughout the year, but has also seen multiple storms including, Debby, Helene, and Milton this past hurricane s
Jan De Nul has just released this amazing video named ‘Working principles of a Water Injection Dredger’. Water Injection Dredgers (WIDs) are smaller than traditional dredgers, which makes them very manoeuvrable. With their limited draught, they are ideal for executing maintenance dredging works in s
Jan De Nul has released a beautiful video named ‘Working principles of a Backhoe Dredger’. A backhoe dredger is a pontoon which is equipped with a hydraulic excavator that excavates the soil and discharges it into a split hopper barge. This crane pontoon is equipped with a hydraulic excavator. Three
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New England District, has just released more details about a dredging plan for the Wareham Harbor Federal Navigation Project (FNP) in Wareham, Massachusetts. USACE is proposing to mechanically dredge approximately 58,000 cubic yards (cy) of predominately sil
Jan De Nul has released a very interesting video named ‘Working principles of a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger’. A trailing suction hopper dredger dredges loose material and soft soils such as sand, gravel, sludge or clay. One or two suction pipes are lowered on the seabed and the drag head is trai
Jan De Nul has released a very interesting video named ‘Working principles of a Cutter Suction Dredger’. A cutter suction dredger cuts hard soil into fragments with a rotating cutter head. The material is sucked up by dredge pumps and discharged to a deposit area through pipelines across sea and lan
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Manson completed a major retrofit of the cutter suction dredge (CSD) H.R. MORRIS recently, replacing its main pump and drive motor system with a newer system that will boost efficiency and reduce emissions during dredging operations. “The company recognized the demand for increased efficiency and ju
Alabama Senator Katie Britt expressed strong support last week for the bipartisan passage of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2024, highlighting its provisions aimed at bolstering Alabama’s water infrastructure and economic growth. “Alabama’s inland water infrastructure will be getting
Washington Senator Maria Cantwell has announced that six coastal resilience projects across the state will receive a total of $3.4 million in federal grants. The projects are set to help protect coastal communities from the impacts of storms and flooding and enhance natural habitat for fish and wild
A project to place sand along a 2.5-mile stretch of beach south of Sebastian Inlet is expected to begin during the week of January 6, Sebastian Inlet District said. Plans call for hydraulically dredging approximately 215,000 cubic yards of beach-compatible sand from a designated sand trap and adjace
Texas A&M University is gearing up for the 54th Annual Dredging Engineering Short Course, which will take place January 6-10, 2025. This 4.5 day Dredging Short Course will discuss current information on dredging fundamentals, dredge equipment & instrumentation. Also, participants will learn more abo
