Despite announcing just over a month and a half ago that the New Orleans Engineer District will need an additional $2.97 billion to complete the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain… Read More
Dredging & Marine Construction
The Waterways Journal has been covering dredging and marine construction news on the inland rivers since 1887. Now, with the combined power of IDR (International Dredging Review), we cover this news in greater depth, expanding our coverage to major projects along all US waterways, coastlines and the Great Lakes.
The St. Paul Engineer District is seeking comments on the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Wacouta Bay ecosystem restoration project on the Upper Mississippi River. Wacouta… Read More
A channel-deepening project that has been talked about for 20 years is underway on the Arkansas River. The Tulsa and Little Rock Engineer Districts have begun a required environmental… Read More
The Little Rock and Tulsa Engineer Districts hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking event for the Three Rivers Project at David D. Terry Park near Little Rock, Ark., on August 24. Read More
Lashed together with steel cables, bundles of trees dangled from a helicopter over the upper Ohio River, ready to become fish habitats. Twenty-nine tree bundles, removed in March… Read More
As harvest season commences, the Corps of Engineers and its contractors are busy with Mississippi River dredging. The St. Paul Engineer District has four mechanical dredges doing channel… Read More
The Memphis Engineer District’s new bank grader, Grader 1, is already hard at work helping to provide riverbank stabilization. Delivered to Memphis in April and christened… Read More
A channel-deepening project that has been talked about for 20 years is underway on the Arkansas River. The Tulsa and Little Rock Engineer Districts have begun a required environmental… Read More
The venerable dredge McFarland’s days indeed are numbered now that the Philadelphia Engineer District has awarded Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group a firm-fixed-price contract “for the design-build of… Read More
NextDecade Corporation, a Houston-based energy company focused on sustainable LNG and carbon capture projects, has given Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) the green light to proceed with work… Read More
