The USACE Buffalo District has published the Ohio Dredging Newsletter, with a lot of information about the nine Lake Erie Harbors it supports across the state. The newsletter provides an update on the status of dredging at the end of fiscal year 2021, and initiatives for FY 2022. Operation, maintena
The World Organization of Dredging Associations, the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and HeroX have announced that they will present next update on the WODA working group on reservoir dredging and five emerging technologies for reservoir sediment removal. The five emerging t
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has completed the first segment of the Freeport Harbor Channel Improvement Project. Port Freeport and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers broke ground on the segment in April 2021. “The completion of Reach 3 is a great accomplishment for Port Freeport and fo
New Damen’s cutter suction dredger CSD350 is on its way to Brazil. This new cutter suction dredger is a sister vessel to the dredger Amsterdam that was delivered to the Brazilian company Construtora Vale Verde in 2019. The Holanda is a fully dismountable, stationary dredger fitted out for one-man op
Over the past few weeks, New Zealand’s Port Otago has installed a series of silencers on their backhoe dredge Takutai. While her accommodation block and operator cabin were well insulated for sound, it was a different story outside. Her rear-mounted digger, hydraulic systems’ generator and plant roo
Knowledge Marine & Engineering Works Limited (KMEW) has won their first ever international contract for dredging works in Myanmar. According to an official announcement, this project will include “dredging and providing maintenance on access channel and port basin at Sittwe Port, Myanmar and Kaladan
RJ McLeod Ltd crews are gearing up at Uig Harbour this week where the ferry terminal will be upgraded with new infrastructure. These improvement operations at Uig will include: dredging work, an extended marshalling area, berthing structure strengthening and widening, linkspan replacement, approach
Julong Environment Technology delivered a 4000m3/hr customized dredger HAILINGHUCAI 001 to Jiangsu Communications Construction Group recently. The dredger is 34.0m long and 12.3m wide, and adopts a modular design to facilitate transportation by road. It has a dredge pump flow rate of 4000m3/hr and a
The Equipment Management Division of the Philippines’ Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Region III has acquired new dredging and support equipment that will be used in river dredging projects and disaster response and recovery operations in Central Luzon. According to DPWH-EMD Region
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge Jadwin is back in its homeport of Vicksburg after wrapping up a busy 2021 season. The season typically begins as soon as the spring water rise is over, in April or May, and ends some time in November. In the off season, the vessel undergoes critical repairs an
VBA, a VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and Atkins, Member of SNC Lavalin group joint venture, has reached an important milestone on the £76 million Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme. This milestone follows the completion of a new 600mm flood wall at Romney Garden, the phase one of the proposed
Dare County, North Carolina, has received bids for the Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects from Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Manson Construction and Weeks Marine. According to the county officials, the bids were opened on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. However, the proposals must still be
The fourth and final stage of the Pasig-Marikina River Channel Improvement Project is underway, the Japanese Embassy in Manila said. The Embassy said that the civil works for the project’s phase 4 would further mitigate flooding due to the overflow of Pasig and Marikina Rivers. It will increase the
The dredging and capping operations are officially completed at the Grasse River Superfund site (aka Alcoa Aggregation) in Massena, NY, EPA said. Nearly a quarter million cubic yards of sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been removed from the Grasse River and over 200 a
