Over 500 military personnel with dredging equipment have been mobilized to dredge five reservoirs around Taiwan in an effort to raise capacity, as the country faces its most severe drought in decades, the Ministry of National Defense reports. Military officers and officials from the Water Resources
The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division said that they will be running an alternate schedule on Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island, Swan Quarter and Ocracoke due to critical shoaling issues in the ferry channel outside Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor. According to NCDOT, shoaling occurs
Field work associated with the implementation of the University Lakes Project officially started this week, Louisiana State University informs. Consultants will conduct due diligence in and around the lakes as Phase 1 of the project gets underway. Phase 1 begins with: bathymetric and stump identific
The City of Newburyport Mayor, Donna D. Holaday, has submitted a proposal for $110.1 million in capital improvements over the next five years. The proposed capital improvement program for fiscal 2022-26, presented Monday to the City Council, includes $49.4 million for infrastructure improvements; $3
Whangarei District Council (New Zealand) will take sand that has become trapped in the Matapōuri estuary and place it back to the beach, copying the estuary’s natural sand flushing process. In this project, set to begin next month, up to 15,000 cubic meters of sand will be taken from three spots whe
All-tide access for Molongle Creek boaties is a step closer with stage two dredging work set to begin soon, the Queensland Government reports. Tenders for the dredging are due to be advertised next month. The new channel will be widened to 12 metres and deepened to provided guaranteed all-tide acces
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has awarded a $6.5 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) for the construction of a beneficial use of dredged material placement area designed to handle approximately 400,000 cubic yards of dredged material. The contractor h
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin the Grays Harbor maintenance dredging program next week with the USACE hopper dredgers Essayons and Yaquina. The Essayons is expected to start dredging in the outer harbor of Grays Harbor around April 5-6, 2021 and will dredge approximately 23 days. The Ya
After being stranded in the Suez Canal for almost a week, the MV Ever Given was successfully re-floated this morning. “Having removed more than 20,000 tons of sand and mud, the dredging operation underway has succeeded in loosening the Ever Given’s bow within the bank of the Suez Canal and the ship’
The Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) yesterday released the latest update on their Foakaidhoo Harbor development program. First shipment of rock boulders required for breakwater construction was successfully delivered to the project site last week. According to MTCC, dredging work o
Enabling works on a £56m flood alleviation scheme, which will reduce the flood risk for the towns of Littleborough and Rochdale, Greater Manchester, will get underway in the coming weeks. The new scheme is led by the Environment Agency in partnership with Rochdale Borough Council, Network Rail, the
The Board of the California State Coastal Conservancy earlier this week awarded over $16.9 million to 13 projects to protect and restore the California coast and San Francisco Bay. Among these grant awards were over $4.4 million from the US Fish and Wildlife Service National Coastal Wetlands Grant P
The NSW Government will provide more than $273,000 in funding to construct a seawall in Lake Illawarra at Windang to protect a local reserve and properties from coastal erosion. Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward, said that the work will be managed by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
The 20,000 TEU MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, is still grounded in Suez Canal, according to Canal service provider Leth Agencies. The colossal ship, spanning 400 meters in length and 59 meters in width, ran aground on March 23, at 6 nautical miles fr
