Manson Construction Company’s hopper dredge Newport will begin maintenance dredging operations in the Gulfport Harbor tomorrow. According to Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, dredging operations will be conducted in the bar channel area, located between buoys 6 – 25. The dredge will be pla
Town of Carolina Beach Government said that Freeman Park will close this weekend as crews begin sand placement for the beach nourishment operations. The area will be closed November 21-23 while crews finish placing pipes adjacent to the dunes and move equipment into place. Carolina Beach officials s
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell said that she secured a commitment from U.S. Coast Guard Acting Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday to support the construction of new docks that can support the station’s critical heavy surf fleet of rescue boats, and the new replacement fleet for the 52-foot rescue boats at th
The beach replenishment project at Croatan Beach is resuming this week after being paused in August to protect the nesting, hatching and migration of loggerhead sea turtles. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, through its contractor Manson Construction, is dredging sand from the Atlantic Ocean Channel
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company has completed dredging and beachfill operations along the north shore of the Indian River Inlet in Sussex County, Delaware. The $8.1 million project included dredging over 500,000 cubic yards of sand from the ebb shoal of the inlet system (located approximately one
Curtin Maritime Corp. has won a $22.6 million USACE contract for Baltimore Harbor maintenance dredging. The project includes maintenance dredging of over 1,000,000 cubic yards from the deep-draft federal navigation channels serving the Port of Baltimore. The dredging will be performed by a clamshell
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the shoals in New York and New Jersey Channels – Arthur Kill 35-foot Reach. The proposed Arthur Kill 35-foot Reach Federal Navigation Project includes removal of approximately 150,000 cubic yards of d
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District has just released a very interesting video update on the Houston Ship Channel – Spillman Island and Barbours Cut Channel. This new work is part of Houston Ship Channel Segment 3 Barbours Cut Channel bulkhead walls. According to USACE, these combina
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District and contracting partners, Ryba Marine have been busy recently dredging Toledo Harbor’s federal navigation channel. Sediments from the channel bottom are being removed by a mechanical dredge and placed into hoppers aboard scows for transport to the d
Contractors have started work on a multi-million-dollar West End beach nourishment project in Texas. The West Galveston Beach Nourishment Project will use dredged sand from the Galveston Ship Channel to renourish the beachfront, from Sunbather Lane to 11-Mile Road. An estimated 717,000 cubic yards o
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is moving forward with the construction works on the Lower Pool 10 habitat rehabilitation and enhancement project, just upstream of Pool 10 in Guttenberg, Iowa. The project includes construction of several new islands, shoreline protection of seve
The Public Entity Saba held a groundbreaking ceremony earlier this week to symbolically recognize the beginning of the construction phase of the Black Rocks Harbor Project. The event took place at Fort Bay, at the current harbor location and was attended by several officials, including Commissioner
