This winter, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct maintenance dredging of the lower settling basin of Everett Harbor and Snohomish River. According to the Corps, the dredging is set to begin Dec. 18, 2022. Operations will run 24/7 and are expected to be completed by Feb 14, 2023. The dredgi
With an internal commitment to becoming carbon net zero by 2030, Land & Water has become the first company in the UK to invest in brand new Kobelco SK210 Hybrid 15m Long Reach Tracked Excavators. This specialist plant will add to the firms existing sustainable fleet which aims to reduce the carbon f
Over the last couple of weeks, Michigan-based Luedtke Engineering has been busy dredging the federal navigation channel in Sandusky Harbor, Ohio. Luedtke began dredging Sandusky Harbor on September 18. Due to shallow water levels, they have had to extend the sediment pump-out pipeline. “Boaters shou
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL) and J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. have formally announced their partnership. The agreement between Brennan and UWL will further the educational opportunities for students studying environmental science, equipping them to start on the job right after they grad
Mud Cat just commissioned a brand-new MC 115D dredge at Hannibal Marina on the Mississippi River. The MC 115D will be used for annual maintenance dredging of the marina after the boating season as mandated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The MC 115D is pumping river sediments 1,687 ft. (514m) a
CEMEX and partners iconsys and University of Warwick have been awarded funding from the Department of Transport for the development of a shore power system to eliminate the operation of on-board diesel engines while its ships are discharging marine aggregates. CEMEX’s participation demonstrates its
Koninklijke Smals NV, Royal Smals has just released a photo update from an important dredging assignment in Portugal. The rehandling and pumping of a volume of at least 30,000m3 sand from along the existing breakwater in front of the main boulevard. Despite the strongly varying tidal conditions, th
ML Dredging is about to complete maintenance dredging of the largest marina in the UK – the Brighton Marina. This season’s large-scale dredging works will be finished by the end of October with the big ML dredger leaving the marina, Premier Marinas said. Since arriving onsite, ML Dredging crews have
Rohde Nielsen has completed a small port development project in the Port of Mukran in Rügen, Germany, for the client Deutsch Dänische Wasserbau Gmbh. The reclamation work comprised dredging 25.789 m3 of fine and compacted sand in the turning circle in the harbor, where the sand afterward was transp
Exactly 6 months after beginning the works, the JF Brennan Company (Brennan) has completed Lake Redwood dredging project in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. According to the officials, a total of 682,880 cubic yards of sediment has been removed from Lake Redwood, surpassing the bid quantity of 657,329 cubi
Waterking BV will be presenting the ES-TRIN certified Waterking amphibious excavator WK55 and the Deltaworker at the Bauma. ES-TRIN certified means that the machine complies with the specified stability and safety standard. All floating equipment on inland waterways are required to comply with this
This week, Weeks Marine completed beach nourishment project in the Town of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The company is now working to dismantle the remaining equipment located at Byrd Street, and move it to the Southern Shores. Beachfill work in the Town of Kitty Hawk, which began on August 24, 2022,
Dredging operations are about to kick off at the Port of Waterford with a maintenance dredging campaign to be carried out by a Dutch company. According to the Port, Baggerbedrijf De Boer’s trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone will be in the area, ready to conduct activities in the vicinity of Bel
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is now accepting proposals for specific projects in the Atchafalaya River Basin in anticipation of its Atchafalaya Basin Program Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2024. CPRA will accept proposals from various sources including academia, par
