The Municipality of Bluewater, with support from Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Small Craft Harbours branch, is planning to perform an annual dredge of their harbour located on the shores of Lake Huron. During this dredging program at the mouth of the Bayfield River in the village of Bayfield, approx
Maintenance dredging within Reaches 3 and 4 of the Okeechobee Waterway (OWW) in Martin County, Fla. is underway. Maintenance dredging within the OWW has not occurred since the project was originally dug, said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District. Dredging began in February and is
HAROPA – Port of Le Havre has inked a contract with a consortium of companies led by Eiffage Génie Civil for the maritime works on the Joannès Couvert quay – part of Siemens Gamesa’s construction of an offshore wind turbine plant in the Port. According to the Port, these upgrade works will take 84 w
The City of Oceanside Harbor has just released the latest update on their dredging program, saying that Manson Construction started dredging work on Tuesday, April 13. Under the official plan, they will deposit sand at North Coast Village for three days and then move to Surfrider for one day. After
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has signed an agreement with St. Johns County, Florida, granting the county up to 1.1 million cubic yards of sand from federal waters for shoreline restoration along 5 miles of South Ponte Vedra Beach. The project will alleviate sand loss caused by erosio
North Queensland Bulk Ports (NQBP) CEO Nicolas Fertin said that the TSHD Brisbane is due to begin the Port of Weipa dredging work from late April. “Maintenance dredging works are an integral part of port operations,” Mr Fertin said. “In the same way we maintain roads and rail lines for freight trans
The NSW Government has provided more than $768,000 to the City of Newcastle Council under the 2020-2021 Coastal and Estuary Grants Program. “This funding will enable Council to investigate the suitability and feasibility of delivering sand dredged from the South Arm of the Hunter River estuary to po
The City of Solana Beach, CA, will implement the first ever Sand Compatibility Opportunistic Use Program (SCOUP) project by placing up to 25,000 cubic yards of high-quality sand on Fletcher Cove Beach beginning Monday, April 19, and ending May 28. “This important beach sand replenishment program, wh
The VSBW team, a VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster joint venture, has reached an important milestone on the £100m Southsea Coastal Scheme, installing a total of 250 steel sheet piles along the first section of the defences, stretching from Long Curtain Moat to Clarence Pier. The piles, that Volk
North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) has just released a video about another Port of Mackay project from NQBP’s $17 million works package. A total of 16,000 tonnes of rock from local quarries was used during recent $1.5 million stabilisation works inside the port. These works were on a det
BESIX – NDI GROUP joint-venture is making significant progress in realizing the Vistula Spit Shipping Channel project in Poland. The Channel through the Vistula Spit is a major infrastructure project that will generate important economic benefits for the Republic of Poland. The Spit is a peninsular
About 250,000 cubic metres of sand will soon be placed onto Adelaide’s West Beach after decades of erosion, according to the South Australia’s Environment Minister, David Speirs. The move is part of the Marshall Liberal Government’s $48.4 million ‘Securing the Future of our Coastline‘ project which
The Minnesota House of Representatives Capital Investment Committee released their 2021 bonding bill earlier this week. Funding for the Phase III of the Shell Rock River Watershed District’s Fountain Lake Restoration Project was not included. Earlier in the session, Rep. Peggy Bennett presented HF 3
Callan Marine has just released an update on the ongoing North Breton Island Restoration Project. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) last year awarded the $54 million construction contract to Callan Marine, Ltd. for dredging 5.7 million cubic yards of material in order to restore the barrier
