Carlsbad beaches will soon have more sand as a result of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon dredging project – starting this February until mid April, informs the City of Carlsbad, California. The lagoon has been dredged every one to four years since 1954 as part of the Encina power plant operations. The last
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has announced upcoming lane closures on Riverway and Netherlands Road as dredging activities continue to progress on Phase 2 of the $36.5 million Muddy River Flood Risk Management project in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts. According to the
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has just announced that they will begin dredging sections of the Okeechobee Waterway (OWW) in the vicinity of Jensen Beach and Stuart (Reach 3) and Palm City (Reach 4) by the end of February 2021. According to the Corps, maintenance dredging a
The Seattle-based Manson Construction Co. has won $9.85 million contract for maintenance dredging in the Port of Alaska. According to USACE, the work will be performed in Anchorage with an estimated completion date of January 26, 2022. An important aspect of the Anchorage maintenance dredging contra
Three modern and powerful dredgers of FSUE “Rosmorport” began dredging works in the Kaliningrad Sea Canal after a break caused by ice formations. According to Rosmorport, the dredgers engaged in the operations are Yuri Maslyukov, Severnaya Dvina and Beloye More. During the works, they will remove ar
In 2020 Rohde Nielsen A/S started working on the contract of beach nourishment of the West Coast of Jutland, Denmark. According to the company, this work is planned to extend over the 2020-2024. The scheme consisted of three separate projects, two of them being beach nourishment with sinkerlines whi
ML (UK) Dredging Ltd crew is getting ready for their next assignment, the maintenance dredging of Rudmore Channel. According to the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth, this routine maintenance dredging project will take place in the Rudmore Channel located in the north east of Fountain Lake within Po
The Gold Coast Waterways Authority is investing $6.3 million in the Seaway and North and South Channels dredging project. According to GCWA, this dredging project will improve safety for small and medium-sized vessels, crossing the Gold Coast Seaway Bar. Removal of shoals in the North Channel and So
Dredging and pond improvement project in Downers Grove (IL) is now nearly complete, reports the V3 Companies. The Downers Grove Park District in partnership with the Village administered this project for sediment removal at Prince Pond to achieve increased water depth for improved water quality. V3’
In just under a month after starting, Weeks Marine has completed 1/3 of the Morehead City dredging & beach nourishment works. So far, the company had dredged, pumped, and graded sand starting just east of the Ft. Macon Bath House Access westward to the Henderson Boulevard. From a purely geographic s
The accumulation of sediment at the bottom of Santa Barbara Harbor, California, began as early as the last 1920s. The federal government began vital annual dredging projects of the harbor in 1972. Pacific Dredge & Construction was recently awarded a three-year contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engi
Construction work has started on an innovative scheme to improve Tilbury’s flood defences, informs the Environment Agency. In a project of national importance, the existing port lock gates will be replaced with pioneering dual function lock gates, and the EA’s tidal barrier will be removed. This is
Shell Rock River Watershed District (SRRWD) made the announcement last week that the Fountain Lake Restoration Project legislation has been introduced in the House and Senate for $7.5 million. “We are very pleased the bill HF 384 / SF 447 have been introduced in the House and Senate for $7.5 million
Dredging of the River Parrett between Northmoor and the M5 finished last weekend, according to the Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA). “It’s gone well. Rain has kept river levels high, so the water injection dredging vessel Borr has been able to work 10-12 hours every day,” said SRA in the release. “Af
