The wet civil engineering firm Land & Water has reached the milestone of 100,000m3 being dredged from Queen Pool at Blenheim Palace in Oxford. Queen Pool, which was created in 1715, had become heavily silted putting its extensive eco-system at risk. Land & Water started works earlier this year, maki
Van Oord and Dublin Port Company (DPC) are about to begin work on a Capital Dredging campaign in order to create two new riverside berths. As disclosed by DPC, the contractor intends to carry out loading and dumping at sea of dredged material arising from capital dredging as part of the MP2 Project
The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has begun maintenance dredging operations in the Charleston Marina Complex. This year, crews will be conducting dredging near the Point Adams Facility, near B Dock, and near the OIMB Dock. According to the port, dredging activities are scheduled to continue
Weeks Marine has started dredging and pumping operations for the Town of Southern Shores beach nourishment project. As reported, the hopper dredge Magdalene is pumping sand at 60 Ocean Blvd., moving towards the south to the town line. The beach nourishment project will cover approximately 3.8 miles
The Wamberal Beach Terminal Protection Structure Engineering Design Requirements, which outlines minimum engineering specifications and details for coastal erosion protection works in the Wamberal embayment, has been finalised and adopted following a review of 247 formal submissions received during
The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has signed two contracts with major contractors PC Marine Services and Modern Building Leaders (MBL), the latter in consortium with HutaHegerfeld Saudia Ltd, to deepen and build new berths at Jeddah Islamic Port with a total of SAR642 million ($170.7 million). The
Mavi Deniz, an Istanbul based company involved in oil spill response, weed and silt removal, dredging and ship building, has delivered an Amphibex amphibious machine to Bulgaria – with support of European Union Funding. The machine has excavator arms with different tools for harvesting aquatic weeds
H&L Contracting, LLC of Long Island, NY will be performing maintenance dredging of the Newburyport Harbor in the following days, the City of Newburyport said. The project will consist of hydraulically dredging approximately 226,000 cubic yards of material from the two entrance channels at the mouth
Rohde Nielsen announced today successful completion of a beach nourishment project in Germany at the southwest beach of the island Föhr. According to the company, this beach nourishment was more difficult than usual, because of the long sailing distance of approx. 82 km between the winning area loca
The highways and waterways agency Rijkswaterstaat has just announced that preparations are underway for the beach nourishment works at Camperduin and Petten-Zuid, in the Dutch province of North Holland. As reported, the preparation began last week and beach nourishments are set to commence in early
Dutra Group has just released this photo of their hopper dredge Stuyvesant transiting to Sabine Texas and leaving Mobile, Alabama, after a lengthy drydock. After several weeks, and a lot of hard work and focus from the Dutra Team, she is happily heading back to work. During drydock, the Stuyvesant w
On 8 August, South Port NZ contracted Heron Construction Company Ltd operating under an existing coastal permit, to remove fractured or fragmented rock that remained in the Port harbour entrance channel from previous dredging campaigns. This project commenced on 21 August and was expected to be comp
Weeks Marine Inc. continues to make good progress on the beach nourishment project in the Town of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Following a brief pause, the hopper dredge B.E. Lindholm has returned to the Kitty Hawk and is now pumping sand on to the town’s shoreline. As reported in the update, the act
As of September 27, just over 5 months after beginning the dredging project, the JF Brennan Company has reached 90% completion of the 657,329 cubic yard bid quantity of sediment to be removed from Lake Redwood. The dredger Michael B. continues to work 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, Redwood-Cotto
