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Congressman Zeldin visits Long Island Intracoastal Waterway
New York Congressman Lee Zeldin yesterday toured the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway and Moriches Inlet with Captain Eva Van Camp and the members of the Coast Guard’s Long Island Sector where maritime navigation is becoming increasingly treacherous. “We discussed the maritime infrastructure resour
Behind the scenes: Boca’s dredge operation
The City of Boca Raton Government has just released this amazing behind the scenes video featuring their dredge crew, their daily operations, and what it takes to keep inland waterways clean and safe. The new dredge was delivered to the Boca Raton Inlet on November 4, 2020. Under the cleanup process
Bald Head Island dredging nears end
A dredging project that has been happening since January on Bald Head Island is nearing completion, the Village of Bald Head Island, NC, informs. The Village said in their latest announcement that the Wilmington Harbor Inner Ocean Bar Project is expected to be finished tomorrow. The project, conduct
Improving Natomas Basin area levees
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, is ramping up work on the Natomas Basin area levee improvements. “This is the season for springing forward, and we’re fully embracing that concept by ramping up work on area levee improvements,” said USACE in their latest announcement. Construct
Muddy River dredging equipment on the move
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has announced upcoming temporary lane closures on Riverway and Netherlands Road as dredging activities continue to progress on Phase 2 of the $36.5 million Muddy River Flood Risk Management project in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts. Tempora
Shallowbag Bay dredging work wraps up
A 90-day dredging project to deepen and widen the channels within Shallowbag Bay and Roanoke Sound in Manteo has been completed, Dare County reports. The main goal of this program is to open up the waterways for many vessels that had previously been unable to navigate the shallow waters due to shoal
New York City to construct sewage retention tanks for Gowanus Canal cleanup
The City of New York is about to build two Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) retention tanks to control contaminated solids discharges at the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, NY. As ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the city will construct and operate two CSO retention
Passaic River PPA inked
USACE and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection have signed a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) for the Passaic River Tidal Coastal Storm Risk Management Project, New Jersey. The PPA was signed March 17, 2021 by Col. Matthew W. Luzzatto, Commander of the New York District of the U.S. A
Grasse River dredging resumes next month
The U.S. EPA announced yesterday that in-river work will resume next month to address sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Grasse River Superfund Site (aka Alcoa Aggregation) in Massena, New York. “It’s exciting to see the tremendous progress that has been made as we ne
Dredger Murden busy in Bigfoot Slough channel
The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division said that they will be running an alternate schedule on Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter and Ocracoke due to critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel outside Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. According to NCDOT, shoaling occurs
Phase 1 begins on University Lakes Project
Field work associated with the implementation of the University Lakes Project officially started this week, Louisiana State University informs. Consultants will conduct due diligence in and around the lakes as Phase 1 of the project gets underway. Phase 1 begins with: bathymetric and stump identific
Nice past week for the Post-Florence project
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock with their two hopper dredges, the Liberty Island and Ellis Island, is making nice progress on PHASE III of the post-Florence Renourishment Project. According to the latest update from the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, the Liberty Island has finished pumping west