The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that when the third season of dredging ends in mid-November a total of more than 1.3 million cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment contaminated will have been removed from the Hudson River since the project began in 2009. 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.
Paraguayans are worried that their favorite resort lake could become a memory as it becomes increasingly choked with contamination and toxic algae. One of the proposed solutions to the problem is to conduct environmental dredging of the lake but leaders in Paraguay are still split about whether this is the most effective method to stop the bacteria. Read More
The National Research Council (NRC) committee on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science Engineering and Planning has released a report entitled Corps of Engineers Water Resources Structure: Deterioration Investment or Divestment? It reports that the Corps has been unable to maintain its navigation channels locks dams and levees in recent years because of constantly declining budgets. Read More
News items about Cuba; Puerto Rico; Brazil Uruguay Nicaragua; Panama; Costa Rica; Venezuela; Colombia; Argentina; Bolivia; El Salvador; Suriname Read More
A listing of all articles appearing in IDR in 2012. Key to issue numbers: #1 - January/February; #2 - March/April; #3 - May/June; #4 - July/August; #5 - September/October; #6 - November/December Read More
Local authorities in the municipality of Colta Ecuador recently purchased an IMS Model 5012 LP Versi-Dredge with 12-inch discharge newly-developed Razor Tooth Weedmaster Cutterhead aquatic plant harvester and interchangeable horizontal cutterhead. Read More
A Cable Arm bucket removes sediment from the cooling water inlet channel at the Pickering Ontario nuclear power plant with no measurable background turbidity. Read More
Craig Vogt represented the World Organization of Dredging Associations (WODA) at a meeting of contracting parties to the 1972 London Convention and its 1996 Protocol (LC/LP) held October 29 through November 2. The meeting was held at the London headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and included a reception to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the LC which was signed on Nov. 13 1972. Read More
After years of study the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a plan to clean up contaminated river sediment at the Grasse River Superfund site in Massena New York downstream of where Alcoa Inc. has operated an aluminum smelting and manufacturing plant since 1903. The Grasse River flows northeast and empties into the St. Lawrence Seaway. Read More
Secretary Darcys keynote address at Dredging 2012 describes the Obama Administrations initiatives and policies regarding dredging and waterborne transportation which will continue in the Presidents second term. During Dredging 2012 in San Diego on October 23 Assistant Secretary of the Army (CW) the Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy spoke at the Opening Plenary Session about the mission of the Army Secretariat Civil Works under the Obama Administration the current initiatives for navigation and how to move the nations waterways into the future. Our challenge is to carry out these missions balancing the engineering the economy and the environment Secretary Darcy said. Read More
