U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer urged Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld to expedite and finalize the company’s commitment to multi-million dollar facility upgrades at their Massena plant. Schumer has been working with Alcoa and the EPA for over a year to finally make public a long-delayed clean-up plan for
The Victorian Coalition Government has today announced a $5 million program to restore flood damaged catchments and improve environmental conditions for tourism businesses and irrigators in flood affected areas. Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan said the 2012
The Division of Parks and Recreation notified visitors to Hampton Beach State Park to expect machinery and equipment on the beaches and roads in response to the Hampton Harbor dredging project. The division will be relocating sand pumped onto the beach at South Beach to replenish the northern end of
Building plans for a renewable energy industry hub on the banks of the River Cart have received a GBP 350,000 boost, reports the Evening Times. The National Renewables Infrastructure Fund, which has been established to support the development of port and near-port manufacturing locations for offshor
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has introduced plans for the maintenance dredging project at the Port Everglades Harbor, Broward County, Fl. This dredging project consists of a Base and six options. Base work occurs within the Entrance Channel from Station 0+00 to Station 74+50. The project depth for t
The 34th Annual General Meeting of the Central Dredging Association will take place on Tuesday, 16 October 2012, at the Van der Valk Hotel Beveren, in Beveren-Waas, Belgium. The AGM meeting, this year under the name “Major European Projects in Dredging, Land Reclamation and Offshore”, will be follow
GVK has welcomed the Australian Federal Government’s approval of its Terminal 3 (T3) Development at the Port of Abbot Point, near Bowen, under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EBPC Act). Following a rigorous and thorough assessment process by the Department of Susta
Rivers in the city are in need of dredging as they are already heavily silted to the point that most of them are less than two meters deep. City Vice-Mayor Belen T. Fernandez cited the rivers traversing barangays Pantal, Pogo Grande, Lasip Grande and Malued as having this condition, based on the fin
The Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) had two successful navigational trials to test the port access and turning basins for 15,500 TEU vessels. The first trial was on the “Eleonora Maersk” arriving from the Suez Canal’s North Bound Convoy, with a draft of 14.9 m. She berthed alongside before safe
After a three-week shutdown, Honeywell will resume the Onondaga lake dredging project today. The slight delay on the project was caused by residents’ complaints over the bad odors. These odors were a nuisance but never a health threat, said John McAuliffe, Honeywell’s Syracuse program director. Over
The Brown County Water Improvement District approved dredging in Lake Brownwood at their board meeting Tuesday evening. BCWID General Manager Dennis Spinks said that the district will now allow waterfront property owners to conduct dry dredging between the current water level and the normal maximum
Governor Pat Quinn yesterday visited the East Peoria riverfront to announce the innovative Mud-to-Parks program, which makes use of soil dredged from the silt-choked Illinois River to build a new park on Lake Michigan. Sixty barge loads of sediment dredged from the Illinois River at East Peoria are
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to offer all necessary resources to the Sandy Pond Channel Maintenance Association (SPCMA) to help stop further buildup of sand in the channel connecting Sandy Pond to Lake Ontario. The accumulation of sand in the channel has
The Panama Canal set a mark in its history as it reached a new tonnage record of 333.7 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS) during fiscal year 2012 which concluded on September 30. This achievement highlights the value of Panama and its significance as a link in the chain of global trade. “This milest
