The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) yesterday announced the completion of another segment of rock breakwaters at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish. The Rockefeller Shoreline Protection project expanded the area’s rock shoreline by 3,414 linear feet, adding e
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is proposing another step up in the environmental work it accelerated in 2018, by investing an extra $10.5 million on the services it delivers to the Hawke’s Bay region and $14.7 million on infrastructure and capital projects in 2021-22. The draft Long-Term Plan for 2021
Deme Group has just released this beautiful photo of a stunning sunrise which could easily be an advertisement from the Trinidad and Tobago Tourist Board. “The crew of our TSHD Lange Wapper were treated to this glorious panoramic view when they were busy performing maintenance dredging works for our
Residents in 113,000 homes in Hull are now better protected from flooding as the Environment Agency’s £42 million Humber frontages scheme comes to fruition. The new, higher defences built by the EA along the estuary foreshore are now in place, ready to protect the city from tidal surges. The flood d
The Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has visited various drainage sites in Accra, Ghana, to assess drainage works being undertaken by the Ministry. The sites included the Odaw-Onyasia confluence at Caprice, Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Upper and Lower Korle lagoons where Messrs Dredge
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is working with the Environment Agency and the South Holderness Internal Drainage Board on a new £600,000 scheme to replace the eroding embankment on the Holderness coastline near Tunstall with a new defense further inland, to control any sea water entering Tunstall
Nova Scotia Lands Inc. said in its latest release that they will remove all sludge material from the Boat Harbor effluent treatment facility aeration stabilization basins – a body of water on the Northumberland Strait in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. “A single project plan to dredge and dispose of the
The Army Corps announced recently that Manson Construction will be begin mobilization to dredge Oceanside Harbor on April 5, 2021. “That is the date the riverbed will be fenced to protect wildlife and equipment will begin arriving in Lot #12,” the City of Oceanside Harbor said in their latest statem
High voltage switch gear which keeps the Gold Coast’s Sand Bypass System pumping is about to undergo a major upgrade, the Gold Coast Waterways Authority reports. “We’ve awarded a $1.2 million contract for the work to locally based firm, TEW Solutions,” GCWA said. “The investment is vital because the
Baggerbedrijf De Boer – Dutch Dredging has started works on the removal of sediments from the Veerhaven port in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Because the Veerhaven is a tidal port that has become increasingly shallower over time, the time has come to restore the depth. For the project, Dutch Dredging
Weeks Marine has successfully completed Morehead City Harbor dredging and beach nourishment project. The cutterhead dredge JS Chatry completed maintenance dredging in the “cutoff” range of the Morehead City Harbor on St. Patrick’s Day with concurrent beach nourishment along the shorelines of Ft. Mac
The Environment Agency and partners have completed more than 700 projects to better protect more than 300,000 homes since 2015. Exceeding its target in delivering the government’s £2.6 billion investment in flood and coastal defense schemes since 2015, the Environment Agency and partners have comple
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company Plc (MTCC) has just released a couple of interesting updates about the ongoing dredging and land reclamation projects in the country. The first one was for the M. Dhiggaru land reclamation project. According to the company, MTCC today held an event there to
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District is about to resume Great Sodus, Charles Point breakwater repairs. According to USACE, the contractor Michigan-based Great Lakes Dock & Materials, L.L.C will resume repairs the first week of April 2021 to the east breakwater in Great Sodus Harbor, Wa
