A £2.5 million action plan to provide greater flood protection to more than 300 homes has been agreed by Devon County Council’s Cabinet. Councillors yesterday approved the County Council’s Flood Risk Management Action Plan to target flood improvements in priority areas across Devon, the council said
Weeks Marine Inc. will be busy over the next couple of months with the maintenance dredging of the Southwest Pass in Plaquemines, Louisiana. The $12.2 million contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, the Department of Defense reported yesterday. According to th
Following a request from the Chairman of East Devon District Council, Councillor Stuart Hughes, councilors will delay discussing the Sidmouth and East Beach Management Plan (BMP) to a future date. Sidmouth’s BMP was completed in January 2017 by East Devon’s consultants CH2M, following extensive cons
Docks of the Bay, a marine construction company from Irvington, VA, has successfully completed the Jackson Creek dredging project in Deltaville, VA, according to the Southside Sentinel. Middlesex County Administrator, Matt Walker, informed the Middlesex Board of Supervisors earlier this week that th
New York Senator Charles E. Schumer yesterday urged the Acting Secretary of Army Civil Works to approve an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release critical funds to dredge the Ogdensburg Harbor. Last dredged in 1984, the Ogdensburg Harbor is still in desperate need of deepening, w
The Port of Rotterdam Authority recently hosted the 2nd meeting of CEDA’s Dredging Management Commission (DMC) in the World Port Center, in Rotterdam. Since the last meeting, four new members have joined the commission, bringing the total number of expert participants to 18. As a result, the DMC is
Dredging work at Mile Point, located on the St. Johns River near Naval Station Mayport, is nearing completion, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District said in its latest announcement. The Mile Point area experienced limited navigation during ebb tide because of difficult cross-curren
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards yesterday sent a letter to President Donald Trump detailing a list of high priority coastal protection infrastructure projects to be considered under the president’s executive order, Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High Priority Infrastructure P
Young CEDA Belgium will be organizing a visit to the dredging and beach replenishment site in Knokke on March 24, 2017. The EUR17 million Knokke beach replenishment project has been awarded to the joint venture ‘Noordzee en Kust’, of which Jan De Nul is part. For the project JDN mobilized its traili
WDH Hydraulics announced recently that the digging system of the world’s largest backhoe dredger Magnor is equipped with 12 WDH cylinders. In the release, the company said that in consultation with the client’s technical specialists, WDH came up with a customer-specific design. The double-acting hyd
The Seabrook Board of Selectmen at their March 6 meeting formally voted to sign on to a letter to Senator Jeanne Shaheen asking for support for federal funding for the Seabrook Harbor dredging project. New Hampshire’s Hampton/Seabrook Harbor is in desperate need of maintenance dredging, the letter s
Contractors working at the Lake Oroville Spillway continue to remove sediment and debris below the spillway. The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has just released this video update on the operations. Crews working on widening the channel at the base of the main spillway have made sign
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), formalizing coordination on managing offshore sand resources. BOEM Acting Director Walter Cruickshank and James C. Dalton, Corps Director of Civil Works, signed the
Hutchison Ports has signed a formal agreement with Ports of Stockholm to operate the container terminal under construction at Stockholm Norvik Port. The new port, which is near Nynäshamn 60km south of the Swedish capital, will have better access, deeper water and greater capacity than the city-cente
