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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Dredging of Hammond Cove

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The long-awaited dredging project in a portion of Hammond Cove is inching closer to realization. Bids will be solicited in a Request for Proposal, with this part of the project will be under the purview of NYC Economic Development Corporation. It is now just a matter of executing the grants, which will allow the NYC EDC to initiate planning and design for the dredging work.

The NYC Department of Environmental Conservation is facilitating the project and secured the grants, $150,000 for project planning, $1 million for the actual work. This project will remove approximately 20,000 cubic yards. In addition, soil samples taken last summer have proven to contain little if any material that could cause environmental concerns, meaning that the dredging work should be easier and less costly.

The dredging of the cove has been a top community priority for years. This project would allow boaters to motor or sail out of the cove and enjoy Long Island Sound without being a prisoner to the tide during some loe tides. Governor Cuomo’s environmental leadership and an environmental protection fund help DEC “continue working with waterfront communities to advance projects like Hammond Cove” while protecting natural resources on waterfronts.

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$1.36 Million Local Bid for Rockport Harbor Dredging

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Derrick Construction Company won $1.36 Million maintenance dredging of Rockport harbor.

At the regular meetings on Monday, May 15, Aransas County Navigation District (ACND) commissioners approved the low bid of Derrick Construction Company for maintenance dredging of Rockport harbor. The district received six bids, ranging from $1,358,850 to $9,710,938.

Bidders were asked to provide a base bid, to provide dredging of the harbor south of the boat basin (between the breakwater and the bulkhead along the harborfront property), and an optional additive bid, to dredge areas inside the actual boat basin.

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Mildura Maintenance Dredging Project

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A major maintenance project at the Mildura South Wetlands will start this week to make sure the proper function.

The contaminants such as dirt and silt build up in the wetlands for a long time. So the effectiveness of wetlands has reducing accordingly. In a bid to prevent this, the maintenance works involve dredging and remove silt and vegetation with excavators. This work is crucial for the ongoing effectiveness and amenity of the area.

The works are scheduled to complete within two to three weeks.

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Dredging of Housatonic River Will Start This Fall

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, awarded the $9.3 million contract to Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting Company of Quincy, Mass. The work will be performed over a three to four months between Oct. 1 and Jan. 31, 2018, for shoals inside Milford Point, and between Oct. 1 and Feb. 28 for shoals seaward of Milford Point.

The last dredging of the Housatonic was in November 2012 when the Corps’ dredge Currituck removed about 50,000 yards of shoal material. This project will take nearly 300,000 cubic yards(a cubic yard of sand weighs nearly three tons) of clean, fine sand from the Housatonic’s shallow navigation channel and move it to Connecticut’s premier beachfront park, Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison.

The sand will be transported by barge to re-nourish the eroding beach at Hammonasset and this will really improve the beach up at Hammonasset. The Connecticut Port Authority has followed through with the finding for this project.

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