The USACE Charleston District is responsible for 15 navigation projects along the South Carolina coast, stretching from Little River Inlet near the North Carolina border to Port Royal Harbor on South Carolina’s southern coast. Providing safe and navigable waterways is a priority for the District. To
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently presented a new case study on the New York/New Jersey Harbor Deepening project. The project is an example of how a team of federal, state, and local stakeholders in New York and New Jersey worked together to cost-effectively and expediently off
Public beach access at Turtle Trail closed this week as work continues to restore the hurricane-damaged beach dunes, Indian River County Coastal Division Programs said. Turtle Trail Beach Access, which closed Wednesday, is the latest of the beaches to close after restoration work resumed in November
Two powerful, robust 6DL36 generator sets left for the Southwest Shipyard in Galveston, Texas, to be installed in Mike Hooks’ new 27” cutter suction dredger (CSD), Anglo Belgian Corporation (ABC) said. This new, non-self-propelled CSD will be equipped with an SCR system and meet the highest emission
Beacon Marine Construction’s crews are currently very busy working on a dredging project in Osterville, Massachusetts. All the material is being bulk loaded onto a large deck barge and towed to New Bedford where the material is being off loaded and disposed. This is a logistical project working arou
Dredging is due to start again this week on the River Parrett, organised by Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium for Somerset Rivers Authority. Van Oord’s water injection dredger Borr will remove silt between Saltmoor Pumping Station – just down from the Thatchers Arms where the overhead power lines
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ‘Hegemann I’ is in the second largest port in Northern Ireland at the moment – working hard on the Warrenpoint Harbour latest maintenance dredging program. This TSHD – with a load space volume of 2.500 m³ – is the largest vessel in the Hegemann fleet. The d
Thirteen projects across South Australia to improve coastal protection will receive $1.2 million as part of the latest round of the Regional Coastal Protection Grants. The projects range from foreshore rock armouring at Moonta Bay as well as a foreshore revetment wall at Smoky Bay, to concept plans
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) will provide an overview and updates on the White Creek maintenance dredging project in Sussex County during a public information session set for 6 p.m., Wednesday, January 19, 2022. The project is now in the engineering
Tom Tate, Gold Coast Mayor, said that the city’s 55 kilometres of ocean beaches withstood the force of ex-tropical cyclone Seth thanks to multi-million-dollar investments in major beach and foreshore protection works. “For the past decade, we have increased our beach and foreshore preservation works
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has just announced that the N. Landhoo Harbour development project is now complete. The President of the Maldives, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, inaugurated the project yesterday. The MTCC CEO, Adam Azim, and other senior officials of the company participat
Louisiana Governor, John Bel Edwards, announced the start of construction on the Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project in St. Bernard Parish yesterday. The project is a part of the large-scale restoration strategy for the Pontchartrain Basin to reestablish the bay rim and intertidal marsh habitat in th
Senegal President, Macky Sall, laid the foundation stone yesterday for the construction of a $1.13 billion deep-water port at Ndayane, located around 50 km (31 miles) south of the capital Dakar. The facility is being developed by Dubai’s state-owned port operator DP World. According to DP World, the
Year 2021 was a big one for the Post 45 Charleston Harbor Deepening project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, said in their latest announcement. In 2022, they plan to finish this capital development program. “Once completed, we will have deepened Charleston Harbor to a depth of
