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Savannah Dredging Event Takes Place in October
PIANC USA and the Coasts, Oceans, Ports & Rivers Institute (COPRI/ASCE) have announced that the Dredging 2015 Conference will take place in Savannah, Georgia, October 19-22, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency on the riverfront in the Downtown Historic District. Organizers expect more than 600 dredging exper
Tolers Cove Marina Dredging Underway
Marcol Dredging Company started the Tolers Cove Marina dredging project on February 16, with their dredger ‘Captain Joe’. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, dredge spoils will be deposited via pipeline across the Intracoastal Waterway at the Upland Confined Disposal Facility. Dredging will continue
VIDEO: Saving the East Point Lighthouse
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and N.J. Department of Environmental Protection are working on a plan to save the East Point Lighthouse by building a beach in front of it. According to Maurice River Township Committeewoman Kathy Ireland, the lighthouse is in danger of being washed away whenever a s
GLDD Bags Southwest Pass Dredging Contract
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) has won a $7.4 million firm-fixed-price contract with options for the Southwest Pass maintenance dredging work. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, this work will be performed on the Mississippi River SWP Area and possibly in other areas of the New
The ‘Grow America’ in Charleston
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx yesterday visited the Wando Welch Terminal to discuss the facility’s upcoming wharf improvement project, which received a 10.8 million dollar Transportation Infrastructure Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant in September. “
Wando Welch Dredging Approved
The SC Ports Authority Board has approved a contract to perform annual berth dredging at Wando Welch Terminal and authorized the purchase of six full container handlers as part of the SCPA’s scheduled equipment replacement plan. In other action items, the Board passed a resolution authorizing the SC
VIDEO: Panama Canal Expansion – February 2015
The largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction, the Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks. The new locks will have three chambers, water-saving basins, lateral filling and emptyin
Comments Invited for Cape Cod Canal Dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, is proposing maintenance dredging and advance maintenance dredging of the Cape Cod Canal Federal Navigation Project in Bourne and Sandwich, Mass. Public comments on the proposed dredging of the Cape Cod Canal are due to the Corps of Engineers b
Picture of the Day: ‘Palouse’ and ‘Mukiltio’ on Snake River
American Construction Company and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed federal navigation channel dredging at Ice Harbor Lock and Dam. The contractor completed dredging of about 2,000 cubic yards of material at the downstream lock approach of Ice Harbor Dam. On the picture, Derricks “
GE: Final Year of Hudson River Dredging
General Electric is working aggressively to refine plans for the sixth and final season of dredging, which will be performed later this year from May through November. When dredging is completed this year, GE will have removed 100 percent of the PCBs targeted by EPA for removal — more than 2.65 mill
Amphibex Machines to Protect Manitobans
Amphibex icebreaking crews are at work on thick Red River ice north of Selkirk, Premier Greg Selinger announced yesterday at the launch point of the 2015 ice-jam prevention program. “Once again the Manitoba Amphibex team will lead an important part of our overall flood-fighting effort to reduce ice-
Council Meeting Set for Cherry Grove Dredging
The North Myrtle Beach City Council has scheduled a Special Called Council Meeting for Saturday, February 21, at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall, which will include a Public Hearing on the proposed Cherry Grove canals dredging project. At the start of the hearing, the City will provide an overview of the pr