The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has been awarded a $7.3 million grant from the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council for engineering and design of the West Grand Terre Beach Nourishment and Stabilization Project. This project is the first of seven projects the RE
The first of the final reports to come from WAMSI’s Dredging Science Node have been published. It’s a major milestone in one of the largest single issue marine research programs in Australia that will vastly improve the planning and regulation of major dredging operations. Also, this month WAMSI wil
The Western Dredging Association has announced that the WEDA Pacific Chapter 2016 conference will be held in San Diego, CA. The conference will take place at the Embassy Suites San Diego Bay – Downtown Hotel from Wednesday, October 19th, to Friday, October 21st, 2016. Wednesday session will include
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (September 26-October 2, 2016). Wasa Dredging Makes Progress on Klintehamn Harbor Scheme The Klintehamn Harbor dredging scheme, being conducted by Wasa Dredging, is progressing according to schedule. French Pres
Royal IHC has appointed Mr Arie Vergunst as Chief Financial Officer as of 1 October 2016. He succeeds Mr Dave Vander Heyde, who became CEO on 1 September 2016. Arie Vergunst has worked at IHC since June 2007 in several financial positions, both at holding level as well as in the business. “This inva
Nearly two decades in the making, the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) continues to gain momentum with more contracts awarded and new ground broken. In addition to progress made on the Raw Water Storage Impoundment and Dissolved Oxygen Injection System, work advanced this month on the dike r
Sea level has been rising in the Chesapeake Bay region for thousands of years, since the end of the last Ice Age. The difference today is that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating, and millions of people and billion of dollars in property occupy the Bay’s shifting shoreline. Now, a grant of $9
U.S. Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo has announced that several provisions he secured to benefit South Jersey under the 2016 “Water Resources Development Act” have been approved by the House of Representatives. Included within the bill is a $55 million authorization for the construction Hereford Inlet
A joint venture partnership between Boskalis Westminster N.V. and McLaughlin & Harvey has won a contract for the £30 million inner Peterhead harbor redevelopment project – Peterhead Scheme 2. The development scheme entails the strengthening and deepening of the port, land reclamation with revetment,
Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard is about to launch the third 1000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Kadosh, being built for the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Rosmorport”. According to the shipbuilder, the TSHD Kadosh launching ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5th 2016. First two ships of t
East Devon District Council’s BMP project team and its consultants CH2M recently met with representatives from Natural England, the Jurassic Coast Team, Environment Agency (EA) and East Devon AONB to discuss the preferred option for long term coastal flood and erosion across Sidmouth Town Beach and
An unexploded German World War II 500 kg bomb was found on the seabed in Portsmouth Harbor yesterday. The device was located by a barge carrying out dredging works ahead of the arrival of the Navy’s new 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, next spring. Royal Navy bomb disposal experts
Congressman Brian Higgins has announced that the approval of H.R. 5303, the Water Resources Development Act, which authorizes the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), will provide $300 million in funding for Great Lakes projects. “Cleanup of the Great Lakes is providing long-term environmental
The Greater Lafourche Port Commission (GLPC) is moving forward with its plans to develop the next generation of deepwater port facilities at Port Fourchon. A separate Memorandum of Understanding between GLPC and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New Orleans District, was signed recently afte
