After completing the design phase three years earlier than planned, the Kansas City Engineer District has awarded the fourth and final construction contract to improve the Kansas City Levees System… Read More
Projects
The Memphis Engineer District held five ribbon-cutting ceremonies in a single day January 20 to signify the completion of bank armoring, pumping station repair and seepage remediation projects. The day… Read More
The Kansas City Engineer District is taking multiple actions to repair and mitigate damage done to river structures on the Missouri River from high water over the last several years,… Read More
The Omaha Engineer District and the city of Hamburg, Iowa, signed a Section 1176 project agreement February 10 that will allow for raising the Hamburg Ditch 6 levee 8 feet,… Read More
In the final days of the Trump administration, residents of southeast Louisiana received a parting gift from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the form of “new start”… Read More
The East Chicago (Ind.) Waterway Management District (ECWMD) has announced that an Indiana canal will be dredged to its authorized depth for the first time since 1972 to allow barge… Read More
In May, Callan Marine began a maintenance dredging project for the Texas Department of Transportation at the Bolivar Ferry Terminal, removing 600,000 cubic yards of material. The project will return… Read More
On May 7, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) announced the U.S. Treasury Department is awarding $3.2 million to Louisiana’s Center of Excellence Research Grants Program. This is… Read More
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Pacific Chapter is accepting abstracts for technical presentations at its fall conference in Seattle, Washington from October 28 to October 30. Abstracts should be limited… Read More
The U.S. dredging industry’s newest cutter suction dredge, Callan Marine’s General MacArthur, went to work in April for a private client in the Port Arthur/Beaumont, Texas, area. The dredge with… Read More