The Town of Barnstable said that the County Dredge and the Town’s contractor, Dig-It Construction, will begin mobilizing equipment in preparation for the Cotuit Bay Entrance Channel Dredging Project in the following days. This project will consist of dredging the approach channel into Cotuit Bay. Ac
The Dredging Contractors of America announced today that the House and Senate have reached deal on the first set of appropriations bills including Energy & Water. In their announcement, DCA showed support for the bipartisan bipartisan package of appropriations bills agreed to by the U.S. House of Re
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New Orleans District has just released this very interesting video named ‘Dredging at the Port of Morgan City’. In the video, Col. Cullen Jones, commander, New Orleans District, Michael Stack, Operations Division chief and Mac Wade, executive director, Port of Morga
New Jersey Department of Transportation team has won a National Recognition Award in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2024 Engineering Excellence Awards competition for the Manasquan Area Channels Maintenance Dredging Project. The $7.2 million project restored eight channels in M
Port of Coos Bay, Oregon, recently welcomed a handymax bulk carrier at the GMA Garnet dock. The vessel is the second ship to call at river mile 15 in the last 12 months. Prior to last year’s call, it had been over 20 years since a deep draft vessel transited and moored at River Mile […]
Boskalis Westminster Ltd recently commenced work on a capital dredging project within the Port of Southampton. The project, being undertaken on behalf of Associated British Ports (ABP), will widen a section of the existing navigation channel within the port’s Western Docks by up to 46m over a length
Michels Construction has been busy lately performing dredging of the Wells harbor under the Federal Navigation Project. So far, the contractor has removed over 60,000 cubic yards of sand from the harbor and built up over 1,100 feet of beach. The overall goal for the Federal Navigation Project, is to
Van Oord is carrying out dredging works in the Port of Krishnapatnam, India. The depth of the port channels has to be restored after a severe cyclone, said Van Oord. To dredge the navigation channel of the port to the required depth again, the Dutch giant is deploying trailing suction hopper dredger
Recent heavy rainfall created a significant challenge for the Canal and River Trust at Dunhampstead Tunnel on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, where the towpath at the tunnel approach had slipped into the canal causing a footpath and navigations closure. Land & Water were contracted at short noti
A Damen crew is busy working on a new customized CSD500 in Nijkerk this morning. The new CSD has been designed for dredging compacted soils. “Its powerful cutter unit and dredge pump ensure a continuously high dredged mixture production. The robustly constructed dismountable dredger can be transport
C-Job Naval Architects recently presented a dredge design which could be built on stock, with the ability to be tailored to the customer’s needs during the building process. The standardized design, a 3000 cubic meter TSHD, has customizable aspects which customers are free to change in line with the
The trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) Padre Island, from Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC, is working in the Galveston Harbor. According to the USACE Galveston District, the TSHD is currently dredging as part of a contract to perform maintenance dredging in parts of Galveston Harbor. The w
Work to reroute the mouth of a river that feeds into Lake Superior began yesterday, WLUC reports. Marquette engineer officials said that the city is moving a significant amount of sand at the mouth of the Dead River. The river feeds into Lake Superior next to the Upper Harbor Ore Dock. According to
Haven Dredging recently conducted several trials on their innovative agitation dredging machine – the Tiamat. According to the company, the comparisons with traditional dredging methods have revealed staggering cost savings with Tiamat. The cost of using Tiamat stands at less than a £1.00/m3, compar
