TasPorts, a state-owned company responsible for eleven Tasmanian ports and the Devonport Airport, will begin seabed levelling activities in the Port of Burnie, starting today (Wednesday 7 December 2022). The dredging work is expected to take up to four weeks to complete, incorporating a break over t
The Lake Havasu City Public Works Department has commenced dredging operations in the Bridgewater Channel. The last time the Bridgewater Channel was dredged was in 2010. Since then, sand and silt have again washed into the channel area and is gradually filling the channel making the navigable areas
Earlier this year, Rijkswaterstaat and Boskalis started work on the Texel beach nourishment project in the Netherlands. According to Rijkswaterstaat, maintenance of the Texel coastline kicked off in early September and will continue until the spring of 2023. For this project, Boskalis will dredge an
Since the award of the construction contract and issuance of the Notice to Proceed over 2-1/2 years ago, Charter Contracting Company, LLC and the Army Corps continue to make good progress on the Muddy River dredging project. According to the latest update on the project, the contractor has been acti
The dredging and beachfill project at Buckroe Beach has been completed, and the newly enlarged beach will be fully opened at noon today, Dec. 5, according to the City of Hampton. The project began in early November and was focused on the area between Point Comfort Avenue and Pilot Avenue. While smal
Following the severe weather that hit Hayling Island in late November, emergency work is now underway to restore the beach to a high level of protection. To restore the beach profile again, Coastal Partners are undertaking emergency beach recycling works; extracting shingle from Hayling Golf Club la
Town of Southern Shores yesterday released a special announcement about the 2022 Beach Nourishment campaign. It looks like the contractor has finished dredging and sand pumping operations in Southern Shores on Nov. 22, according to the latest update. “Last week, based only on visual inspection it wa
Town of Yarmouth Massachusetts will later today begin dredging and beach nourishment operations at the Parkers River and Seagull Beach. According to the town officials, there will be an excavated pit on Seagull Beach which will serve as a dewatering basin for dredge spoils from a channel dredging op
Jackson has completed work on a multi-million pound project to raise a 30km flood bank on the Ouse Washes Flood Storage Reservoir. Following 6 years of construction, the project maintains the standard of flood protection to more than 2,000 properties and 67,000ha of agricultural land. The raising of
Dredging operations at the Charleston Marina have almost come to a conclusion for the 2022 season, according to the Port of Coos Bay. Over the last couple of weeks, the crews were busy conducting dredging near the Point Adams Facility, near B Dock, and near the OIMB Dock. The project was undertaken
The City of Martinez (CA) announced recently that the 2022 Marina Dredging Project has been approved by the regulatory agencies. According to the city, the environmental dredging work window expires at the end of November (absent the regulatory agencies granting an extension into December). To maxim
A large-scale dredging project is about to begin at the mouth of the Padsan River in Barangay Gabu, Philippines. According to the government officials, dredging will commence on December 15 at the mouth of the river moving all the way upstream of more than 5 km. “The sand extraction along the heavil
The Tweed River entrance is subject to shoaling due to the net longshore sand drift movement, which occurs off the east coast of Australia. Combined with strong currents and wave action, this shoaling can be dangerous for navigation. Maintenance dredging was therefore required at the mouth of the Tw
Transport for NSW Maritime is working on a two-stage dredging program for the Swansea Channel that will improve navigation and provide access to the Lake Macquarie. The first stage which will begin soon is planned to be completed prior to Christmas. This involves the use of a barge-mounted excavator
