The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District has announced the award of a Sediment Morphodynamic Assessment Project (SMAP) contract that will examine sediment transport in southeast Florida over the next two years. The project monitoring and modeling will support the Corps’ navigation and
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (February 25 – March 3, 2019). PHOTO: IHC Beaver for the Middle East Royal IHC said in its latest announcement that their first IHC Beaver ever built in the Middle East was officially launched last week. Wasa Dr
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are seeking public comment on an interim report that is a milestone in developing a comprehensive flood-mitigation strategy for the state’s extensive back bay areas. The Army Corps’ New Jersey Back Bays Coasta
Norfolk Dredging Company’s dredge Charleston is making great progress on the Canaveral Harbor Federal Sand Bypass Project. Approximately 1.3 million cubic yards of beach compatible sand is being dredged from the Sand Bypass Dredging Area on the north side of Canaveral Harbor channel. The sand is tra
From the collaboration between Dragflow (an Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment) and Gerotto Federico S.R.L. (a company specializing in the design and production of Mini Excavator robots and in work with suction excavators) a new dredging tool is born: The Bull – ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle)
The US Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, has just released a copy of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the Modification to the Port Hueneme Deepening Project located in Ventura County, California. The purpose of the proposed project is to improve efficient accomm
The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA) Board of Directors approved an updated, amended Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) at the board meeting and annual meeting held on Thursday, February 21, 2019. “The new plan includes up-to-date technical work to accurately reflect natural hazards along
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC (GLDD) from Oak Brook, Illinois, has been awarded the FY2019 Charleston Lower Harbor Maintenance Dredging contract. According to the FedBizOpps, the $4.6 million dredging project – located in Charleston and Berkeley Counties, South Carolina – was awarded to GLD
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, recently closed out its Sand Hill River Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration project. The intent of this project included restoring ecosystem connectivity in the upper Sand Hill River and its tributaries. USACE had originally constructed a major drainage
The Environment Agency has just released a new economic assessment to aid planning for flooding and coastal risk management over the next 50 years. The study uses new climate change, population and mapping data to set out potential future scenarios, assessing how funding could be best allocated to m
The Government of Ghana’s Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Samuel Atta Akyea, has announced plans to reduce the incidents of flooding across the country through channel improvement works, Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports. Briefing the media in Accra about some of those interventions, the Sector Min
OHL, through its specialized subsidiary SATO, has obtained a new contract for the construction of a new sea wall in the Port of Arrecife in Lanzarote, Spain. In particular, the company was awarded the €8.1 million contract for the construction of the southern outer sea wall of Naos in the Port of Ar
Work is well underway on the latest CEDA information paper on guidelines for assessing and evaluating environmental turbidity limits for dredging. The main aim of the paper is to facilitate knowledge exchange on the topic, along with an assessment of which parameters should be included in the evalua
Massachusetts State Senator, Anne Gobi, has announced the release of $50,000 worth of funding for the Lake Wickaboag dredging work, GoLocalWorcester informs. Commenting the latest release, Senator Gobi said: “I have been proud to partner with the Lake Association, and I share their concern for the l
