A Prioritized Dredging Project in Chautauqua County

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The Chautauqua County Planning Board recently unveiled its recommended projects the county should fund for fiscal year 2018. Dredging near the Conewango Watershed Dam is being considered the highest capital project priority.

The 10-member board came to a consensus that the No.1 project was dredging the reservoir area to remove sediment build-up at the Conewango NRSC Dam Site 33. The board recognized the necessity of property maintenance of critical facilities like the dam, which is why it’s the top priority to fund next year. Between engineering and construction, the project is estimated at $135,000.

The dam is located in the town of Cherry Creek and dredging the area would ensure normal pool capacity and proper function of the reservoir drain.

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Delaware River Deepening Project

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This dredging project scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, will create a 45-foot deep channel that will enable the Port of Philadelphia to handle 95 percent of the world’s container vessels.

The value of this dredging project is about $360 million including the allocation of $29 million fron the Army Crops of Engineers.

Gov. Wolf to allocate an additional $300 million of state resources to expand the port through the relevant people’s efforts. The project will more-than-double the port’s container volume, grow our job base from 10,000 to 17,000 workers, and provide high-quality, family-sustaining jobs while generating millions of dollars in local and state tax revenue.

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First Phase of Old Sandwich Harbor Dredging Project Was Approved

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The Woods Hole Group is working with the town on the project, which would see the dredging of the Harbor and placing the sediment onto Town Neck Beach.

The first phase of this project consists of reviewing existing information, conducting an ecological habitat assessment including a shellfish survey, field data collection and holding a regulatory meeting. Phase two would consist of a hydrodynamics assessment and alternative development and analysis, while phase three would feature engineering design and plans and environmental permitting.

The total cost for phase one is $48,800 and if it goes forward, phase two and three would cost $66,000 and $70,000 respectively.

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Ouachita-Black Rivers Dredging Project

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An additional $2 million funding to dredge the Ouachita-Black Rivers Navigation Project in Arkansas and Louisiana will allocate by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Ouachita-Black Rivers Navigation Project provides dependable year-round commercial navigation from the mouth of the Black River to Camden, a distance of approximately 337 river miles.

Each project has a lock chamber 84 feet wide and 600 feet in length to ensure the waterway is fully maintained for commercial navigation.

This dredging project provides multiple direct and indirect benefits beyond navigation by providing both public and commercial water supply and discharge benefits, recreational benefits, fish and wildlife conservation benefits, and flood damage reduction benefits that all together enhance and improve the quality of life of the people in the Ouachita River Basin in Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Back Bay Dredging Works

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Ocean City to host town hall meeting on Saturday morning to discuss dredging project on the back bay. ACT Engineering officials will present the plans for the 2017 dredging program and other long-term efforts to keep the lagoons and channels navigable.

Bigger boats have trouble navigating the bay because of years of siltation in water accessways. It has been long trying for the city to tackle more than 900,000 cubic yards of silt that has built up in the back bay, narrowing channels and causing problems for boaters. The city has done several small dredgings in the past two years.

It will continue to use the confined disposal facility site at Route 52 to complete mechanical dredging projects at the north end of the island this summer.

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Holland Harbor Dredging Will Start in June

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Holland-based King Company, Inc. has been awarded $374,000 dredging contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday, May 26. This project will start in June and complete in July.

This project will dredge approximately 34,000 cubic yards of material from the harbor. The funds are also being used to dredge 30,000 cubic yards of material from the St. Joseph Outer Harbor. Material from both sites will be placed south of the south breakwater between the ordinary high water mark and a four-foot contour that is closest to land.

Holland Harbor is located on the east shore of Lake Michigan, 95 miles northeast from Chicago and 23 miles south of Grand Haven. These channels need to be kept open for “important cargo.” At Holland Harbor, this includes coal, building materials, petroleum products and other miscellaneous needs.

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