Americas
USA: Waikiki Beach Dredging Program Completed
Sea Engineering in conjunction with Healy Tibbitts Builders (Weeks Marine) has just completed the largest dredging/beach restoration and stabilization project ever completed in Hawaii. The project involved dredging on the Pearl Harbor entrance channel to restore the design channel width, and the pla
Top News – August 5 to 11, 2013
Sabetta Port Construction to Include Huge Dredging Operation (Russia) Nineteen vessels will be part of the dredging operation on Sabetta arctic port construction project on the Yamal Peninsula this year. Boskalis Bags EUR 80 Million Dredging Contract Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has
Colombia: President Approves Money for Magdalena River Dredging
During the Council of Ministers held in Neiva, President Juan Manuel Santos signed the document that gives life CONPES Plan Magdalena River Navigability, main waterway of the country for the transport of cargo and passengers. This project will promote multimodal transport and logistics development,
Enbridge Asks EPA for Extension to Finish Kalamazoo Dredging (USA)
Controversy over Enbridge’s dredge pad site is causing the company to ask the United Stated Environmental Protection Agency for an extension to complete dredging of the Kalamazoo River. Senior vice president of operations for Enbridge, Rich Adams asks for the EPA to extend its deadline past Dec. 31,
USA: LA Board of Harbor Commissioners Approves New Port Master Plan
The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners today approved a new Port Master Plan that is the first comprehensive update of the Port’s development policies and procedures since its original plan took effect more than three decades ago. The new Plan incorporates previous amendments and anticipated
USA: Norfolk Dredging Bags Delaware River Dredging Contract
Norfolk Dredging Co., Chesapeake, Va., was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract with a maximum value of $8,400,000 for dredging and disposal services along the Delaware River. Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pa., Salem, N.J., and New Castle, Del. Fiscal 2013 operations and maintenance funds i
USA: Maffei and Hanna Put In Additional Effort to Pass Strong WRDA
During a tour of the Port of Oswego day before yesterday, Representative Dan Maffei (D-NY) and Representative Richard Hanna (R-NY) announced a new effort to pass a strong Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) and bring critical support and infrastructure improvements to Central New York Ports and t
Wells Harbor Dredging Project Under Review (USA)
In response to inaccurate statements in a story (“Plight of plovers halts dredging of Wells Harbor”) published in the Portland Press Herald (August 8, 2013), the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service would like to clarify the agency’s role in reviewing dredging projects in Wells and Scarborough, Maine. Th
EPA Awards Projects to Improve Onondaga Lake Water Quality (USA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a total of $260,000 to two organizations for work that will improve water quality in Onondaga Lake and the Onondaga Lake watershed. The New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC) has used a $200,000 EPA grant to hire an On
USA: Dredging Starts on Lyndhurst Section of Passaic River
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined today by Congressmember Bill Pascrell, Jr., New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin, Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan, Mayor of Lyndhurst Robert Giangeruso and other dig
USA: Senator Leone Welcomes Goodwives River Sediment Removal Project
On August 1, State Senator Carlo Leone welcomed an announcement by Governor Dannel P. Malloy that a grant has been awarded through the state’s Small Town Economic Assistance Program (STEAP) to construct an aquatic habitat and remove sediment within the Goodwives River watershed from Upper Pond in Da
New Orleans to Host Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Meeting (USA)
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (Council) will meet on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. CDT to vote on the Initial Comprehensive Plan: Restoring the Gulf Coast’s Ecosystem and Economy (Plan). The public is invited to attend the Council Meeting. The meeting will take place at the