Orion Marine Group has just released an amazing photo of a 55-year-old legend, cutter suction dredge King Fisher working in Texas. The robust 12,000 HP King Fisher is currently in Port Arthur, Texas working on the USACE Sabine Neches Waterway Maintenance Dredging Project. Here’s a glimpse of her pow
The synergy of the Netherlands, Texas and Flood Resilience once more converged at the international SSPEED Conference on 12 and 13 October at Rice University in Houston. The theme of this year’s conference hosted by the Severe Storm Prediction, Evaluation, & Evacuation from Disasters Center, was ‘Ur
The Coconino County Flood Control District (FCD), in support of the City of Flagstaff’s Spruce Wash flood mitigation efforts, will soon begin work on Phase II of the Park Way Sediment Basins. In Phase I of the project, the furthest downstream of three sediment basins was constructed in the summer of
Following the completion of the Butler Beach Reach (portion of the FEMA Dune Enhancement Project), St. Johns County has moved on to the next segment of this project – the South Ponte Vedra Beach Reach. The Butler Beach Reach portion is one of four beach restoration efforts included in the FEMA Dune
The Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) has received an approval to progress on the expansion of its cruise ports on St. Croix and St. Thomas. In St. Croix, Royal Caribbean Group (RCG) and VIPA are collaborating to allow larger ships to visit Frederiksted and continue to bring unique guest experien
Work was recently completed on Buffalo’s north breakwater, which is essential to providing safe navigation in Buffalo Harbor, USACE said. Storms in 2019 and 2020 caused extensive damage to the north and south heads, with collapsed walls, core stone blown out and fallen concrete caps. Navigation thro
Island building and habitat restoration have significant environmental benefits, improving aquatic and land-based ecosystems. Working under LS Marine and alongside Ramsey County, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Saint Paul District, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, J.F. Brennan Co
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District is about to begin dredging operations at the mouth of the Kaskaskia River near Modoc, Illinois in Randolph County. The dredging is intended to remove sediment from the river mouth, ensuring the channel remains open for commercial navigation. Durin
The dredging work in the Popponesset approach channel is now complete, the Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, said. The Barnstable County began work in the channel, which is usually dredged annually in February or March, in mid-September and wrapped up on Monday, October 16. Sand from the dredging oper
Callan Marine is currently working on a project to remove 1.5 million cubic yards of material from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway from Rollover Pass to the Galveston causeway. This project has involved several dredge assets: the General Patton, General Bradley, and General Marshall have all worked t
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is actively maintaining the Mississippi River navigation channel ahead of the fall harvest to provide a safe, reliable navigation channel for the navigation industry to move the grains grown in the Upper Midwest to markets across the nation and gl
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley as well as U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici and Val Hoyle have announced that Oregon State University has secured a $500,000 federal grant to assess the impact of backshore dune environments to sea level rise in the Pacific Northwest. Backshore dune environments a
