Valley Water held a groundbreaking ceremony earlier this week to commemorate the start of construction on the first phase of the South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Project. Valley Water is partnering with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the California State Coastal Conservancy, and the U.S. Fish &
Preparations for the Addu City capital land reclamation project will start immediately, Van Oord said today. Land will be reclaimed along the coasts of the islands Hithadhoo and Maradhoo/Maradhoo-Feydhoo. In addition, three new islands will be created in the city’s lagoon. The trailing suction hoppe
Work to restore the nearly 150-year-old North Pond in Lincoln Park, Chicago, is about to begin, the Lincoln Park Conservancy said. The $7.3 million raised for the project will support its first two phases, which are expected to finish in November. The first phase of restoration includes dredging of
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has just announced the successful delivery of the first dual-fuel Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) to Van Oord. Named Vox Ariane, the high-specification dredger has a hopper capacity of 10,500 cubic meters and can run on LNG. It is the sixth dredger bu
Rohde Nielsen is part of the port development and capital dredging project named “Lynetteholm Enterprise 1” – Copenhagen’s man-made island. From December 2021 to December 2022, RN units Ajax R, Roar R, Hugin R, Munin R, Ull R, and Balder R, will dredge approximately 51.300 m3 to deposit onshore and
The Cameron Meadows Marsh Creation project is now complete. Nearly 2 million cubic yards of sediment were dredged from the Gulf of Mexico and pumped 5 miles inland to build more than 300 acres of marsh and 2.3 miles of terraces to increase sediment deposition and reduce the impacts of wave erosion a
The new boat ramp at Onslow is taking shape with contractors recently using excavation equipment to allow water to flood the newly completed boat ramp basin for the first time. According to the Department of Transport WA, dredging and construction of revetments is close to completion as part of the
RockSalt Subsea has completed the first phase of silt removal works at the Craig Goch Reservoir in Wales. For these works, RockSalt crews mobilised the Super Mohawk ROV with the Electric Piranha Dredger. “Super Mohawk is a robust, durable and field proven ROV system designed for high payload, with p
Naue Group has just released this very interesting video about the Lubmin coastal protection project in Germany. Due to climate change, storm surges are becoming more frequent. The coast in the seaside resort of Lubmin, Germany, was exposed to several storm surges in a short time. In case of an addi
Boskalis, a Papendrecht based company operating in the dredging, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors, is responding to the growing need for coastal protection and flood prevention on a global scale. “As well as through advances in technology, we aim to reduce emissions and ecologic
Coastal Partnership East, on behalf of North Norfolk District Council, will begin both the Cromer Phase 2 Scheme and the Mundesley Coastal Management Scheme in 2022 subject to consultation with all consultees. According to the Council, this will improve defences and take into consideration the predi
Within the next few days, a special transport will leave Kallo, in Port of Antwerp, Jan De Nul said. A pontoon carrying an enormous concrete threshold. Final destination: Nieuwpoort harbour channel. According to Jan De Nul, this is a major component of the storm surge barrier currently under constru
Work on the next phase of the Ōrewa seawall project is underway after the resource consent was granted via the Environment Court, Auckland Council said. The project is now in the developed design phase, with site surveying and investigation due to begin in May 2022. Once this phase is complete, the
The Meirionnydd Branch of the Farmers’ Union of Wales held meetings recently with Clare Pillman, Chief Executive of Natural Resources Wales recently, and visited various locations in the Dysynni Valley near Tywyn in areas within the Internal Drainage District. The meeting was facilitated by Mabon ap
