River Parrett Dredging Project Wrapped Up

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The River Parrett dredging program was successfully wrapped up last week.

This dredging program was funded by the Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) and carried out by the Environment Agency and its contractors Land & Water and Black and Veitch.

The contractors, Land & Water and Black and Veitch, have spent the past three months removing 13,000 cubic meters of material from a 750 m stretch of the Parrett between Northmoor Pumping Station and Linden Farm.

After the Environment Agency removed 130,000 cubic meters of material from an 8 km stretch of the Rivers Tone and Parrett around Burrowbridge, another important piece of work to reduce flood risk in the county has been completed.

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JNPT begins dredging project of navigational channel

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Jawaharlal Nehru Port, India’s leading container port, has already started Phase II of a dredging project in its 33.54km long navigational channel.

JN Port has successfully completed the Phase I of the dredging campaign in April 2014, including deepening and widening the existing channel to a depth of 14 meters for accommodating vessels of +6000 TEUs. Phase-II dredging will allow a bigger container vessel of 12, 500 TEUs to be docked at JN Port.

The project work is scheduled to be completed within a period of 24 months.

The consultancy service for project management has been assigned to M/S TATA Consultancy Engineering Ltd.

The key benefits of the project include handling bigger size vessels up to a draft of 15 meters by using a tidal window, increasing in future container traffic, reducing ocean freight cost per TEU, faster turnaround of larger vessels & optimum utilization of capacity.

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Petersburg pursues dredging project for south harbor

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Petersburg is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a dredging project to solve a growing problem at the south harbor. Many of the larger boats at the south harbor have been going aground due to the rising basin, which has affected commercial fishing operations.

According to Harbour Master, fifty-eight-foot boats and some bigger 100 feet boats are going aground especially at the entrances. The federal agency would pay for about half the costs of the dredging and take over part of the permanent maintenance of the south harbor.

The project involves removing and store about 50.000 cubic yards of dredge spoils. The work is expected to be completed by 2019.

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RDA Contracting Secures a construction contract

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US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, recently has awarded a $2.16 million construction contract to RDA Contracting for erosion repair near Isleton on the Sacramento River.

The work involves placing about 14 tons of quarry stone along 591ft of the eroded levee. The construction work is planned to start in August and is expected to complete by the end of 2016.

The construction work is critical for public safety and can prevent property damage. The eroded levee could be destroyed in flood season, endangering public safety. So Corp Project Manager has expedited the contract award.

The work will also improve California Highway 160 adjacent to the river from Sacramento to Antioch after the erosion repair work is completed. As part of the ongoing Sacramento River Bank Protection Project, the work will repair river bank erosion and protect levees along the Sacramento River and its tributaries to reduce flood risk for the Central.

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A dredging contract in Mianus River

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A contract for the dredging of the clogged Mianus River channel in Greenwich town is being signed.

The work includes dredging about 50,000 cubic yards of sediment from the federal channel, which has not been dredged in more than 30 years. The project must be carried out between Oct. 1 and Jan. 31 owing to environmental conditions.

The river was last dredged in 1985 which removed 53,000 cubic yards of sediment. In recent years, much silt has built up, the channel is barely passable in sections at low tide, and boats with a big draft in the water would be hitting the bottom. So the Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge the Mianus River so that those boats can’t dock there.

The project will restore the channel to its dimensions of 6 feet deep and 100 feet wide, running from Cos Cob Harbor up the Mianus River to about 400 feet downstream of the Boston Post Road Bridge. After this dredging, the channel would be 75 feet wide. The sediment will be placed in the Western Long Island Sound Disposal Site.

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Barnstable Attempts to Modify Harbor Entrance Channel Dredging Project

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The army corps of engineers is accepting public comment on a proposal that modify the dredging project of the mid-entrance channel in Barnstable Harbour.

Barnstable is looking to dispose of about 3,500 cubic yards of sediment at the Cape Cod Bay Disposal Site instead of putting dredged material in a viable spot Blish Point Sediment Containment Basin.

The dredging project aims to dredge a 182,000 square-foot area to a depth of 6 feet below mean low water at Maraspin Creek/Barnstable Harbor. About 20,000 cubic yards of sandy material will be removed and dewatered above the high tide line at Millway Beach before it be placed as beach and dune nourishment at the Sandy Neck Cottage and Lighthouse areas. Work will be operated in the fall or winter.

Public comment will be accepted through August 18, and their comment should be submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, Regulatory Division (ATTN: Kevin Kotelly), 696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742-2751.

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