The Dare County Board of Commissioners earlier this week awarded the bid for the 2022 Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) in the amount of $25,8 million. The bid – which was evaluated and subsequently recommended by the county’s consultant for the project
Royal Boskalis Westminster has just published a book about the salvage of the Ever Given. In March this year, Boskalis was at the center of worldwide media attention on the salvage of the stranded mega container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal. In collaboration with the Suez Canal Authority, a lar
The €140 million Harwich Haven Channel Deepening Project is about to enter its next phase with the arrival of trailing hopper suction dredger Vox Amalia. According to the Harwich Haven Authority (HHA), the hopper dredger Vox Amalia will arrive in Harwich later today to commence capital dredging of t
Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott wrote to Michael Connor, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, prior to the Army Corps Engineers finalizing their supplemental work plan for Fiscal Years 2022 through 2024, to ensure that “all proposed and ongoing projects in Florida receive
Carteret County did not get any bids to open Thursday for a proposed project to dredge east Taylor’s Creek, Carteret County News-Times informs. According to Gene Foxworth, county planning director, the county did get some “interest” from potential bidders, but no official bids. “We will readvertise
The project cost to carry out dredging in the 460km Mogla-Pakshi water route is shooting up by Tk 3.34 billion ($39 million) to Tk 12.90 billion ($150 million), daily sun reports. A proposal of the Shipping Ministry for the cost hike is likely to get the nod at a meeting of the Executive Committee o
Pennsylvania DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn yesterday announced that the commonwealth has reached a settlement with Sunoco Pipeline, L.P., that will require the company to dredge Ranger Cove in the 535-acre lake at Marsh Creek State Park in Chester County. Sunoco will also pay $4 million for natura
The deepening of the Vuosaari fairway and harbour basin was completed ahead of schedule at the end of November, Port of Helsinki said. During the project, around 1.1 million cubic metres of soil was dredged and 800,000 cubic metres of rock was made available for use in area construction in Helsinki.
The Broward County Segment II Shore Protection Project is making headway, USACE said in their latest project update. As of Thursday, December 2, the crews had placed approximately 87,000 cubic yards of beach-quality sand in the section of beach running north from Anglin’s Pier. The team is progressi
AD Ports Group has just announced that they are about to complete an extensive expansion project at Mugharraq Port, a strategic harbour located 240 km from Abu Dhabi City. The announced infrastructure improvements include the extension of the quay wall up to 480 metres with additional berths, deepen
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund has approved six restoration projects and two amended projects for Mississippi for a total of $26.8 million. The projects will be administered by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). “These proj
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has executed an agreement with Dare County, granting the county access to up to 6.6 million cubic yards of sand from the Outer Continental Shelf to restore 11.6 miles of beaches. The project, slated for 2022, is part of Dare County’s long-term shoreline m
The Louisiana CPRA yesterday announced the start of dredging activities on the Cameron Meadows Marsh Creation and Terracing Project in Cameron Parish. Using 1.9 million cubic yards of sediment pumped from the Gulf of Mexico, the area will see the addition of 308 acres of marsh. The restoration proje
Lakeside Chautauqua, located in Lakeside, Ohio, yesterday released this very interesting video named ‘Lakeside Western Shoreline Preservation’. In the video, Matt Kovach, restoration ecologist at GEI Consultants, presents possible processes and design considerations to address erosion along Lakeside
