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Emergency dredging at Santa Barbara Harbor VIDEO
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Navigation Branch, in coordination with Santa Barbara County, completed emergency dredging operations in the entrance channel at Santa Barbara Harbor recently. USACE, along with its contractor, Pacific Dredge & Construction, San Diego, began em
Miss Katie wraps up Hatteras Inlet dredging project
The 156-foot-long shallow-draft hopper dredge ‘Miss Katie’ completed a 10-day dredging project in Hatteras Inlet on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Miss Katie began dredging Hatteras Inlet on Friday, January 27, 2023, and, upon completion of the project on Sunday, February 5, 2023, she had successfully dr
Ambassador Pirenne tours TSHD Elbe in Costa Rica
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Central America, Christine Pirenne, yesterday toured the dredging vessel Elbe, owned by Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging. Built by Royal IHC, the tralling suction hopper dredger (TSHD) is currently is dredging Caldera Harbor in Costa Rica. The to
VIDEO UPDATE: Hideaway Beach and Sanddollar Island dredging project
Paul Balzano YouTube channel has just released an amazing video about the progress of the Hideaway Beach and Sanddollar Island dredging construction project. The work started in November 2022 by the City of Marco Island. The video shows the workers operate heavy machinery to move massive amounts of
The largest USACE hopper dredger returns from steel and machinery repairs
The Dredge Wheeler returned from steel and machinery repairs at shipyards in Charleston, SC, and Mobile, AL, last week. Later this month, the crew will conduct readiness exercises aboard the Wheeler on the Mississippi River. The Wheeler is the largest hopper dredge in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer
Brennan acquires dredging & dewatering division of IAI
J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. (Brennan) has finalized the asset acquisition of the dredging and dewatering division of Infrastructure Alternatives, Inc. (IAI). The purchase brings dewatering, water treatment, and treatability testing services into the organization for the first time. Environmental serv
First section of Houston’s Project 11 wraps up
The Houston Ship Channel expansion project, also known as Project 11, continues to make significant progress. Port officials announced yesterday that dredging of the first segment extending from Bolivar Roads to Redfish, known as Segment 1A, is now wrapped up. The work was completed on schedule and
The Dutra Group: Removing millions cubic yards of debris from Feather River
Record storms battered Northern California in early February 2017. These storms led to historic flows into Lake Oroville. The storms, along with severe erosion damage to the Oroville Dam’s main spillway, resulted in the emergency spillway being used for the first time in history. Erosion damage belo
Dredging part of the Cruz Bay project
The Virgin Islands National Park Service began bulkhead repairs, pier replacement and creek dredging by its Cruz Bay Visitor Center during the first week of February. To minimize the impact to boaters, the project is expected to proceed in phases, then move into a full closure of the area from April
More cannons and artifacts discovered during Savannah River dredging
Seventeen cannons and artifacts were loaded onto a flatbed semitruck Jan. 31, 2023, at the Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineers Depot and transported to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M. The cannons and artifacts were discovered in the Savannah River during the
Port of Green Bay gets $2.4M in Harbor Assistance Program
The Port of Green Bay and two of its terminal operators are receiving $2.4 million in grant funding for harbor maintenance and improvement projects. The grants were announced by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and come through Wisconsin’s Harbor Assistance Program. “This is good news for Green Bay and
New Damen CSD650 ready for South America
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