On September 9 2009 I met with a group of planners and project managers from the New York District Corps of Engineers for a boat tour of some of the area encompassed by the Hudson-Raritan Estuary Comprehensive Restoration Plan. Read More
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In a conversation with Alec Dreyer the new executive director of the Port of Houston Authority staff writer David Murray learned that dredging is the major concern for the port. Dreyer estimated that the port is realizing only eight cents per ton in maintenance money in return for $127 million contributed to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund last year. Read More
The Corps of Engineers Memphis District Ensley Engineer Yard (EEY) and the Corps Marine Design Center (MDC) have completed the lengthening of the Corps of Engineers dustpan Dredge Hurley by 48 feet. The project increased the dredges length from 305 feet to 353 feet making it one of the largest vessels on the Mississippi River and increased the dredges dredging depth from 40 feet to a maximum of 75 feet. Read More
While driving alongside Beach Boulevard in Pascagoula Mississippi the average person would never know that just six months earlier the majority of that beach didnt exist. Its hard to imagine that a beach was just created out of nowhere but thats exactly what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mike Hooks Inc. and Gulf Sand & Gravel Inc. dba ENCO Dredging did during their collaboration on the Pascagoula Beach Boulevard project as part of the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP). Read More
Ministers from the southern African countries of Malawi Mozambique and Zambia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop the long-envisioned Shire-Zambezi Waterway project the online publication Africa Water News reported on July 6. Read More
On July 29 Barry Holliday chair of Realize Americas Maritime Promise (RAMP) announced that Chairman James L. Oberstar chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee had agreed to include the groups harbor maintenance trust fund (HMTF) language in the committees markup of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2010. Read More
The Port of Anchorage Expansion Columbia River Deepening and observations on the dredging response to the Gulf oil spill are three topics planned for the Pacific Chapter meeting at the… Read More
The Port of Anchorage Expansion Columbia River Deepening and observations on the dredging response to the Gulf oil spill are three topics planned for the Pacific Chapter meeting at the… Read More
Starting later this week GE contractors will begin the 2010 Supplemental Engineering Data Collection program. Additional core sampling will be initiated under the program to assist in further delineating the… Read More
Starting later this week GE contractors will begin the 2010 Supplemental Engineering Data Collection program. Additional core sampling will be initiated under the program to assist in further delineating the… Read More