The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) chose the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island in Maryland as the winner of the 2015 Innovation in Sustainable Engineering… 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.
Streamside Technology LLC has introduced and is testing the Bedload Collector – a passive structure that traps coarse-grained sediment removing it from the bedload of a river stream or ocean… Read More
On November 16 Damen Dredging Equipment held a naming ceremony in Nijkerk the Netherlands for the second of Van Oord’s Model 650 cutter suction dredges the Mangystau. The naming ceremony… Read More
Three years after Hurricane Sandy the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the 25th and final flood control and coastal emergency project in October 2015. Together with its federal state… Read More
Faced with having to build a parking garage below the water table a contractor in Copenhagen Denmark turned to watering and dredging as a cost-effective alternative to dewatering and excavating. The building… Read More
TULSA DISTRICT DREDGES LAKE FOR WATER STORAGE The U.S. Corps of Engineers Tulsa District announced November 3 that dredging commenced at Waurika Lake to reclaim water storage for six southwestern Oklahoma municipalities. Read More
Matt Houston market manager for marine construction for RSC Bio Solutions discussed the 2013 vessel general permit and Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants at PIANC’s Dredging 2015. His presentation was entitled “New EPA Regulations for Environmentally Acceptable… Read More
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has released “Beyond Sand & Sea” a book describing in text and highquality photos the achievements of its members in the 50-year history of the organization. Photos… Read More
The three agencies responsible for the fate of the Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System (NDGPS) will post their decision in the Federal Register as soon as it is signed by all representatives Capt. Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reopened the door to further dredging in the Hudson River at least a little bit. Five weeks after giving General Electric Co. permission to… Read More
