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
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On Wednesday May 26 Peter Bowe president of Ellicott Dredges LLC will testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee regarding the impact of ARRA on the U.S. dredging industry… Read More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert Barham has announced the following additional closures to recreational and commercial fishing activities in portions of state inside waters… Read More
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined by Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley was back in the Gulf Coast on May 24 to monitor EPA’s on-the-ground… Read More
U.S. Dredging Contract awards from February 3 through March 25 2010 Read More
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
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
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
The Corps New York Districts beneficial re-use program takes dredged sand from the harbor deepening program and uses it to rebuild habitats. One of these projects is nearing completion in Jamaica Bay. Travelers using the John F. Kennedy Airport can see the bay as they take off or land. 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
