The waterway extends from Norfolk Virginia to the Florida Keys and includes scores of shoaling areas that are a hazard to navigation.Approximately 75 users and stakeholders in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway assembled in Savannah Georgia last November for the 10th anniversary meeting of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA). Read More
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On April 15 U.S. Sen. Carl Levin D-Mich. introduced S.3213 - the Harbor Maintenance Act of 2010 a bill to ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used for harbor maintenance and ensure funding for federal ports and harbors across the nation. Read More
Cavache Dredging is midway through removing a thick layer of muck from Lake Trafford in South Florida. The project is the third and final phase of a decades-long effort to rid the 1600-acre recreational lake of a layer of composted vegetation eight feet thick in places that caused a massive fish kill in 1996. Read More
On May 4 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD) reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31 2010. Read More
The federal budget request for FY2011 released by President Obama Feb. 1 is a “discouraging step backward for one of the nation’s most critical waterways” according to the Atlantic… Read More
IDR Staff writer David Murray analyzing local Indian news reports describes navigation and dredging situation at two major Indian ports -Haldia and Goa. Read More
The Mississippi Department of Transportation and The Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Foundation are submitting a completed prospectus for the proposed establishment of a mitigation bank referred to as the Buttahatchie River Mitigation Bank. Read More
McElroy University the training division of McElroy has added a productivity-focused class to the 2010 class schedule. For more than 30 years pipe fusion machine manufacturer McElroy offered advanced training… Read More
A new company DSC Dredge LLC has been created as an umbrella company to encompass Dredging Supply Company Inc. and all its subsidiaries. These include: Best Equipment M&S Equipment Better Dredges Inc. W&S Dredge Manufacturer Reliable Gulf South LLC Dredge Surplus and Dragados Sud-America (DSA). Read More
