The Dredge Potter crew finished up an unprecedented 2022-23 season on February 1, 2023, that required tremendous teamwork to maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water
A Damen ??? ??????????? dredge pump, type DOP200, has been used to empty a continuous carousel of barges. Contractor Michels Construction, Inc. successfully completed this very important job in Philadelphia recently. In total, some 26,000 cubic yards of dredge material have been removed. At the upla
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Navigation Branch, in coordination with Santa Barbara County, completed emergency dredging operations in the entrance channel at Santa Barbara Harbor recently. USACE, along with its contractor, Pacific Dredge & Construction, San Diego, began em
The 156-foot-long shallow-draft hopper dredge ‘Miss Katie’ completed a 10-day dredging project in Hatteras Inlet on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Miss Katie began dredging Hatteras Inlet on Friday, January 27, 2023, and, upon completion of the project on Sunday, February 5, 2023, she had successfully dr
Eco-friendly sea-walls to prevent coastal flooding will be developed between Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and a global firm, thanks to funding from Innovate UK’s ground-breaking Launchpad programme. This week, £5.5 million for Liverpool City Region was announced for Launchpad, which suppo
Port of Aberdeen recently contracted Boskalis Westminster to conduct emergency maintenance dredging works in the River Dee. Flooding in November 2022 caused significant material to accumulate in the west of the river resulting in the minimum water depths being exceeded at the port’s Torry 6 and Mear
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Central America, Christine Pirenne, yesterday toured the dredging vessel Elbe, owned by Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging. Built by Royal IHC, the tralling suction hopper dredger (TSHD) is currently is dredging Caldera Harbor in Costa Rica. The to
Paul Balzano YouTube channel has just released an amazing video about the progress of the Hideaway Beach and Sanddollar Island dredging construction project. The work started in November 2022 by the City of Marco Island. The video shows the workers operate heavy machinery to move massive amounts of
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has just released a very interesting video named ‘Protecting communities in the Nile Delta from coastal flooding’. By supporting the Government of Egypt to upscale a local, ecosystem-based approach to coastal management, GCF and UNDP, are improving the climate resilience
Mr Iyke Olumati, Nigerian Ports Authority’s official, said that the long-awaited dredging of the Calabar Port will begin in a few weeks. Olumati revealed this information last week, when the Commissioner for Trade and Commerce in the state, Rosemary Archibong, alongside the management team of Great
Malachy Walsh and Partners (MWP) has been shortlisted in the Innovation – Small/Medium Category for the ACEI Engineering Excellence Awards 2023. The overall project relates to the upgrading of the Middle Pier in Howth FHC for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The upgrading consiste
Jan De Nul has won a contract to conduct the dredging works for the Port Victoria expansion project in Seychelles. According to Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA), additional negotiations will be done for the costing and, if possible, reduce the scoping size. The port expansion and rehabilitation proj
Emergencies services and agencies in Norfolk have declared a major incident following the discovery of a suspected World War Two device in Great Yarmouth yeaterday. Norfolk Police said that the discovery in the River Yare was thought to be an ordnance device. It was found by a contractor working on
The Dredge Wheeler returned from steel and machinery repairs at shipyards in Charleston, SC, and Mobile, AL, last week. Later this month, the crew will conduct readiness exercises aboard the Wheeler on the Mississippi River. The Wheeler is the largest hopper dredge in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer
