Following the success of the sand nourishment campaign at Wyomi Beach in 2020, Kingston District Council has again been successful in receiving grant funding to continue implementing strategies which will minimise erosion risk for the upcoming winter season. Council considered the funding allocation
The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved $4.1 million to help the Town of Kill Devil Hills renourish its beaches and restore dune plants and fencing destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Funding from FEMA’s Public Assistance program covers restoring 311,900 cubic yards of beach sand and 4
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined Coastwide Civil Pty Limited $15,000 for an alleged water pollution incident which occurred while conducting dredging work at Shell Cove Boat Harbour. Coastwide Civil was permitted to dredge the harbour for development of a marina. A cut was ma
The Government of Western Australia’s Department of Transport (DoT) is about to begin work to restore safe navigation depths where the mouths of the Murray and Serpentine river meet in the Peel Inlet. DoT Maritime Executive Director, Steve Jenkins, said that the maintenance dredging, last completed
Port of Port Hedland’s Berth 3 is getting a major upgrade as part of the State Government’s WA Recovery Plan, with works starting to remediate the rock wall and to refurbish the wharf piles. The $11.4 million contract has been awarded to WA company Total AMS Pty Ltd (TAMS), with the works forming pa
The City of Oceanside Harbor, CA, has just released the latest update on their dredging project, conducted by Manson Construction. So far, the contractor dredged 215,000 cubic yards of sand that was placed on City beaches. The current outfall pipe is located just north of Surfrider Way. Due to recen
The City of South Padre Island is working in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Texas General Land Office, and Cameron County to renourish the beaches on South Padre Island. USACE has awarded a contract to Weeks Marine who will perform the regular maintenance dredging of
The rebuild of the Shute Harbour Marine Terminal is on track and expected to be completed by mid September 2021, weather permitting, Whitsunday Regional Council informs. The new seawall has been constructed, with the level of the entire facility and carpark raised by an extra metre for greater resil
USACE is removing 57,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from Otter Creek in Toledo/Oregon, Ohio and restoring nature to its purity. In this very interesting video, Ashley Binion-Zuccaro, USACE Buffalo District project manager, and Mark Schwab, USACE Buffalo District contracting officers repres
Gidrostroy’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Kenford recently visited the Port of Varna, Bulgaria, to perform capital dredging on the port’s channels. This dredger has 3000m3 hopper capacity and, fully loaded, the draft of 5.25 meters, said the Kaliningrad based full service marine constructi
Christchurch coastal protection and maintenance works, scheduled to take up to six weeks, will begin in the following days, BCP Council reports. Works involve: beach recycling in four groyne bays between Avon and Friars Cliff beaches and Highcliffe beach; rock groyne reshaping and groyne beacon post
U.S. EPA, Ohio Lake Erie Commission and Ohio EPA, with support from the Ashtabula River Advisory Council, yesterday recommended that Ohio’s Ashtabula River be removed from the U.S.-Canadian list of the most heavily polluted areas on the Great Lakes. A report detailing the comprehensive cleanup of th
Construction of the South Harbour is continuing at pace, and changes can be seen on site nearly every day, reports the Aberdeen Harbour. As reported, at least 30,000 tonnes of rock and core material has been imported to the project last month to be used for the South Breakwater. The scale of the Nor
Peab has been commissioned to build a new container port adjacent to Tunadal Port in Sundsvall, Sweden. The customer is SCA Logistics AB and the contract is worth SEK 249 million ($29.4 million). “In order to meet the growing demand for paper pulp and sawn wood products a new container port will be
