The Gold Coast’s only dedicated facility for disposing of sediment from dredging has attracted its first community user. This purpose-built facility is designed to save users time and money on sediment disposal as it’s the only site on the Gold Coast which is designed to accept dredged material whic
The maintenance dredging works within Portarlington Harbour officially started yesterday, Parks Victoria informs. Dredging program will take place on the northern and southern sides of the commercial jetty. Works will be carried out by a cutter suction dredge. Also, dredged material is to be deposit
The building of a rock revetment wall to protect Haumoana’s Cape View Corner from erosion can now get underway with the resource consents for the work now approved, Hastings District Council informs. In the 2020/2021 Annual Plan, Hastings District Council allocated $600,000 funding for the work that
Parks Victoria said in their latest announcement that dredging operations at the Kananook Creek entrance will take place in the following days. According to the official statement, “mariners are advised of maintenance dredging works to be undertaken by Frankston City Council in the vicinity of Kanan
The Department of Transport (WA) is getting ready to begin a maintenance dredging program in the Denham Maritime Facility, located 831 km north of Perth, in the Gascoyne region. According to DoT, recent hydrographic surveys confirmed the need for dredging to ensure ongoing safe access to the Denham
A Majority Labor Government will commit $8 million to improving the health of the Tamar River estuary to encourage more locals, tourists and native species back to the river, Tasmanian Labor reports. Labor Leader, Rebecca White, said that $4 million would be committed to restoring the natural and ae
The latest edition of IADC’s Terra et Aqua introduced this very interesting article ‘Adverse Physical Conditions: Legal development and changes in risk profiles’. The author is David Kinlan (Kinlan Consulting Pty Ltd). Over the past 10 years, there have been noteworthy advances in case law with resp
CentrePort is about to begin removal of a build-up of sand in Wellington Harbour to ensure shipping has sufficient depth to operate, improving safety and efficiency. According to CentrePort General Manager Logistics, Mark Thompson, ridges of sand have built up over several years in two areas of the
North Queensland Bulk Ports (NQBP) CEO Nicolas Fertin said that the TSHD Brisbane is due to begin the Port of Weipa dredging work from late April. “Maintenance dredging works are an integral part of port operations,” Mr Fertin said. “In the same way we maintain roads and rail lines for freight trans
With the aim to reduce spillage and turbidity in cutter suction dredging, Dredge Yard developed and tested a new Dredge Cutter System called DrillCutter. The prototype of a full-scale model is launched in Mid-January 2021 and ongoing testing to demonstrate the full potential of the new cutter. The n
The NSW Government has provided more than $768,000 to the City of Newcastle Council under the 2020-2021 Coastal and Estuary Grants Program. “This funding will enable Council to investigate the suitability and feasibility of delivering sand dredged from the South Arm of the Hunter River estuary to po
North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) has just released a video about another Port of Mackay project from NQBP’s $17 million works package. A total of 16,000 tonnes of rock from local quarries was used during recent $1.5 million stabilisation works inside the port. These works were on a det
