With the arrival of the main pontoon at Damen dredging yard, the transformation of their CSD range is underway. “Equipped with an integrated spud carriage as standard, this innovative design features three pontoons instead of 6 – fast and practical assembly and still transportable by road,” said Dam
Dredge America crews are moving forward with the Paducah dredging project. According to the City of Paducah, this latest dredging program is set to remove sediment that has built up as a result of significant flooding in 2018, 2019, and 2020. In October 2022, the City approved a three-year contract
The Dredge Potter crew finished up an unprecedented 2022-23 season on February 1, 2023, that required tremendous teamwork to maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water
A Damen ??? ??????????? dredge pump, type DOP200, has been used to empty a continuous carousel of barges. Contractor Michels Construction, Inc. successfully completed this very important job in Philadelphia recently. In total, some 26,000 cubic yards of dredge material have been removed. At the upla
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Navigation Branch, in coordination with Santa Barbara County, completed emergency dredging operations in the entrance channel at Santa Barbara Harbor recently. USACE, along with its contractor, Pacific Dredge & Construction, San Diego, began em
Eco-friendly sea-walls to prevent coastal flooding will be developed between Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and a global firm, thanks to funding from Innovate UK’s ground-breaking Launchpad programme. This week, £5.5 million for Liverpool City Region was announced for Launchpad, which suppo
Paul Balzano YouTube channel has just released an amazing video about the progress of the Hideaway Beach and Sanddollar Island dredging construction project. The work started in November 2022 by the City of Marco Island. The video shows the workers operate heavy machinery to move massive amounts of
Record storms battered Northern California in early February 2017. These storms led to historic flows into Lake Oroville. The storms, along with severe erosion damage to the Oroville Dam’s main spillway, resulted in the emergency spillway being used for the first time in history. Erosion damage belo
Royal IHC today released this amazing video of trailing suction hopper dredger TEUNIS HUIBERTUS on its sea trails in January 2023. This Beagle® 4 is a TSHD from the series of ‘standard’ medium-sized hoppers of IHC Dredging. During the sea trails, next to the ship performance and safety procedures, a
A pre-construction meeting for the upcoming 2023 Beach Fill project for Avalon and Stone Harbor beaches was held at Stone Harbor Borough Hall last week. Participants in the meeting included representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,
Sussex County is digging down to dredge up safer boating on a local waterway. County Council on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, approved a memorandum of understanding with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to form a funding partnership for the upcoming White Cree
Three parties have submitted bids to dredge areas in the Maldives where new airports will be developed, local media reports. The Government the Republic of Maldives is working to develop airports in six islands on a cross-subsidy basis. While developers have already been secured to build an airport
The Netherlands’ highways and waterways agency Rijkswaterstaat has just released this beautiful photo from the beach nourishment works at Petten. This work is part of the beach nourishment operations at Camperduin and Petten-Zuid, in the Dutch province of North Holland. By applying more than 1.2 mil
Boskalis has won a contract from the Ministry of National Planning, Housing and Infrastructure of the Republic of the Maldives related to the further development of Gulhifalhu – including climate adaptive measures for the island. The contract carries a value of approximately EUR 120 million. This pr
