St. Charles Mayor Patti York is seeking up to $80 million in federal funds to carve a canal between the Missouri River shore and Bangert Island to help boost a plan for a mammoth commercial/residential project nearby.The request was made public during a briefing Monday… [mappress] Source:interact.st
The Department of Defence and the Royal Australian Navy plan to start dredging sediment at Garden Island by the end of this month. The site was last dredged in 1999. The sediment has been classed as “solid waste” according to the Defence Department but may also be contaminated with… [mappress] Sourc
Florida environmental officials tentatively approved plans Tuesday to dredge Mayport Naval Station’s basin and navigation channel to handle larger ships. Dredging to make the basin 52 feet deep is one in a series of steps that have to be completed before a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier can be bas
THE new Mersey Ports dredger Shoalway will be named at Liverpool Cruise Terminal on Friday. Shoalway will be sponsored by Patricia Hodgson, wife of Peel Ports Mersey managing director Gary Hodgson, at midday. The 90m long suction dredger is owned by Westminster Dredging Co and replaces bucket dredge
Indonesian port operator Pelindo II will develop a new hub port in Karawang, West Java, Bisnis Indonesia reported. The new port will have an annual capacity of 10 million TEUs. The state-owned enterprise (SOE) will prepare around US$667 million to develop and operate the port within 5-10 years… [map
A contract for post-lay rock placement for the Nord Stream Project has been awarded to the Dutch joint venture Boskalis-Tideway Offshore. The value of the contract is about 100 million euros. This work is scheduled to start in 2011 and will be completed in 2012… [mappress] Source:oilandgaseurasia,Ap
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin dredging operations early next week in response to an incident early Thursday morning about 3 miles upstream of Grafton near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. According to officials with the corps’ St. Louis District, a 15-barge… [mapp
No visitor in Korea this week will be more excited to see the completed 33.9-km-long seawall on the country’s southwestern coast than Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. The Saemangeum land reclamation project was recently finished after nearly two decades of work… [mappress] Source:koreatime
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has notified a federal engineering agency that its plans to dredge a shoal off the St. Augustine Inlet could be linked to severe beach erosion several miles to its north in Vilano and South Ponte Vedra beaches. Nelson, D-Fla., wrote the Jacksonville district commander of the Ar
A federal judge ruled that New Jersey’s lawsuit opposing dredging of the Delaware River shipping channel by the Army Corps of Engineers should be heard in the Garden State. The Corps of Engineers had sought to have the case moved to Delaware, where a judge ruled in February that the project could be
Holden Beach has received a 4,500-foot long, 150-foot wide stretch of new sand thanks to the dredging of the Lockwood Folly Inlet between Holden and Oak Island, according to Holden Beach Town Manager David Hewett… [mappress] Source:thesunnews,April 27,2010;
Driving by Harbor City’s 231-acre regional park, Machado Lake looks to be a serene and picturesque oasis. But close up, the reality is harsh. For years the lake, which holds runoff storm water from the area, has collected everything from pesticides to swarms of mosquitoes… [mappress] Source:pasadena
New technology and lessons from old mistakes will help forecast environmental and financial costs of dredging Jacksonville’s harbor before work begins, engineers said Monday at an international conference in Jacksonville. “We’re using the most up-to-date methods and tools that are out there… [mappre
BAYONNE AND BEYOND — Reports from several prominent officials in Hudson County and in Bayonne suggest that city officials are seeking offers to build a container port on the former Military Ocean Terminal site in a blockbuster deal that could help the city retire its entire debt… [mappress] Source:h
