The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will hold a virtual information session on July 28, via Zoom, to discuss the upcoming White Creek maintenance dredging project in Sussex County. Since White Creek was last dredged in the early 2000s, shoaling has increasingly imp
A major dredging program on the Gold Coast’s Seaway and other waterways is well underway. “We’re a quarter of the way through the dredging project of the Gold Coast Seaway, North and South Channels to remove shoaling and restore target depth,” said Gold Coast Waterways Authority. “Our contractors ha
Senior Army official yesterday visited the Fargo, N.D. /Moorhead, Minn., flood risk management project. USACE, St. Paul District and Metro Flood Diversion Authority hosted Jaime A. Pinkham, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army fo
This summer, OpenIJ – a consortium of construction companies building the IJmuiden lock – will deliver the largest sea lock in the world to Rijkswaterstaat. According to the Port of Amsterdam, OpenIJ is working on the final stages of the construction of Zeesluis IJmuiden. After delivery to Rijkswate
The widening of Castletown Beach is on track for completion late next month, the Government of Western Australia informs. Under the project, more than 40,000 cubic metres of sand was pumped 3.6 kilometres from Bandy Creek Boat Harbour to replace eroding sections of the beach. To widen the beach, tem
The split-hull Dredge Murden, operated by USACE’s Wilmington District, is dredging in Barnegat Inlet. Sand is being placed in the nearshore area off Harvey Cedars, NJ. The project was selected as part of a nationwide program to test innovative methods for beneficially using sediment. The 156 foot Dr
USACE Chicago District is providing construction services to U.S. EPA’s Illinois Beach State Park coastal protection pilot project in Zion, Illinois. The objective of the project, funded through USEPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, is to field test innovative rubble ridge coastal infrastructu
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has won a contract from the Harwich Haven Authority for the approach channel and inner harbor dredging works. The contract carries a value of approximately EUR 140 million, split 50/50 between Boskalis and Van Oord. This massive dredging project entails the
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District has just announced that the Indiana Harbor and Canal (IHC) confined disposal facility (CDF) Phase 2 dike raise construction began last month. The Corps awarded the CDF Phase 2 contract to Integrated Environmental Solutions, Inc. in September 2020. t
Burleigh and Palm Beach shoreline will be replenished with enough sand to fill 28 Olympic sized swimming pools, as the City of Gold Coast’s annual dredging program kicks off today. Approximately 40,000 cubic metres of sand will be pumped from Tallebudgera Creek to top up Burleigh Heads beach. At the
As reported earlier this month, Conrad Shipyard LLC has begun construction of two Damen Multi Cats 3013 for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation. The construction of GLDD’s Multi Cats started with the ceremonial steel-cutting ceremony that was held at Conrad’s facility in Morgan City (La) on Tuesda
Last month, Panama Canal Authority celebrated fifth anniversary of the grand opening of the Expanded Panama Canal. Following seven years of hard work, this massive infrastructure project was launched by the Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela on June 26th 2016. With the price tag of $5.25 billio
L.B. Foster Company has been awarded a $7 million subcontract to supply infrastructure materials for the rehabilitation of existing upstream approach walls for a new lock at the USACE Soo Locks Complex in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The Company is supplying approximately 5,750 tons of steel piling t
Proposals for a review of Scarborough’s coastal defences strategy will go before Scarborough Borough councillors next week. The Environment Agency is covering the cost of the fresh assessment of the risks posed by land erosion and sea flooding. A specialist team will investigate the likely issues ov
