The Lockwood Folly Inlet between Oak Island and Holden Beach is no longer dangerously shallow, WWAY-TV3 said. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers surveyed the inlet yesterday morning to follow up on a dredging project that was completed on September 5. According to USACE, the project was successful and
FSUE “Rosmorport” and China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC) recently signed a contract for the construction of NOVATEK’s LNG terminal in the Bechevinskaya Bay, Kamchatka Territory. According to Rosmorport, the contract worth approx. $265 million includes construction of a 6-km-lon
The Town of Nags Head, NC, is asking for federal approval to dredge three offshore sites for 975,000 cubic yards of beach-quality sand to place along a 4.5-mile section of oceanfront shoreline. The town submitted an application to USACE’s Wilmington District, seeking Department of the Army authoriza
Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University has released this very interesting video named ‘Why do these Dutch dunes have gaps? The play between wind, sand and biodiversity in Bloemendaal’. Coastal geomorphologist Prof. Gerben Ruessink (Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University) studies the natural a
Orion Marine Construction Inc., from Tampa, Florida, recently won a $9.5 million contract for Sabine-Neches Waterway maintenance dredging and Cameron Parish, Louisiana, pipeline dredging. Bids for this dredging program were solicited via the internet with four received, reports the U.S. Department o
The JAXPORT Board of Directors unanimously awarded a $48.8 million construction services contract yesterday to Superior Construction Company LLC for terminal improvements to enable the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal at Blount Island to accommodate more containers. The construction contract cove
In the fall of 2017, Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting Company, LLC designed a state-of-the-art sloped clamshell bucket with partner Anvil Attachments to deploy on the contoured subsurface profile of the New Bedford Harbor Cleanup Project in Massachusetts. Conventional flat-level clamshell buc
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a $139 million construction contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC. (GLDD), to complete the third phase of the landmark Port of Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP). The four-phase infrastructure project will increase the
The Rye and Sorrento dredging operations are underway, the Mornington Peninsula Shire said. The project will deepen the channel at Rye and an area around the Sorrento boat ramp’s southern pier, ensuring boats can safely access the ramps and piers. Works are expected to take approximately six weeks t
The fifth renourishment cycle of the Panama City Beaches is now underway, with an anticipated completion by early 2022. According to the city officials, construction mobilization began on September 2, while active dredging and placement of sand on the Carillon Beach started in mid- September. This r
The winter dredging season got under way this month at Haslar Marina with the multi-role dredging veteran Doreen Dorward and a new look split hopper barge NAB on site to carry out the work. The 300m³ capacity self-propelled, split hopper barge returns to work after a few months of refit work to ins
The two faulty sluice gates at Weston-super-Mare’s Marine Lake are to be replaced as work continues behind the scenes to re-open the lake. A contract to renew the broken gates has been let by North Somerset Council. The £60,000 project will provide strengthened sluice gates which will enable the cou
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District has awarded the first construction contract for the Central Everglades Planning Project Everglades Agricultural Area Phase reservoir, a key component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). The $79.8 million Contract 10A was aw
Southsea Coastal Scheme is about to celebrate another milestone, opening of the Project Information Centre. The Project Information Centre, located at the Pier Road site offices in Southsea, will finally open today, 27 September. Elsewhere, the crews are powering through the creation of the rock rev
