The new maintenance dredging just has been announced by The Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA. Its dredging schedule starts from Tuesday, April 12th to Tuesday, May 10th.
The maintenance dredging of the surrounding pier is being processed in order to re-establish the minimum required harbor depths needed for the naval vessels that use these facilities
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock of Oak Brook, Illinois is going to start one more season – the third of six – of clearing out sediment from the bottom of Lake Decatur.
As Engineering Services Coordinator Jerry Stevens, crews have been working this week to reassemble the dredge operation as they prepare to resume dredging Friday, April 1st.
“We have about three more months in the Big Creek Basin, and we will also start in Sand Creek, which will take about a year to complete,” Stevens said.
The dredging crews have removed around 2.8 million cubic yards of sediment out of the planned 10 million cubic yards till now.
By the time the project wraps up in 2019, Lake Decatur should have an increased water capacity of 30 percent, which equals about 72 days of additional drinking water.
A contract has been awarded for phase one of the Long Beach Island Dune Project. By U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice.
The contract was awarded to H&L Contracting. It includes groin rehabilitation and construction of new groins.
And the estimated cost of the initial construction of the project is $230 million.
The Government is paying 100 percent of the cost of initial construction of the project using Sandy relief funds and 65 percent of the future renourishment costs subject to additional appropriation
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers trailing suction hopper dredge “McFarland”, which was once again deployed for its second call out of the fiscal year 2016 for an emergency dredging assignment.
The dredge was assigned to the Wilmington Harbor, Outer Ocean Bar, and Baldhead Shoal Channel.
The crew of “McFarland” lately finished a 45-day urgent dredging tour at the mouth of the Mississippi River and was on its way back to Philadelphia when the Red Flag was raised for Wilmington Harbor.
At that time dredge was passing by North Carolina, USACEHQ ordered “McFarland ” to respond to the urgent need of dredging the shoaled areas in Wilmington Harbor.
The emergency dredging operations began on March 16th and will end on the 31st.
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has won a contract from the National Petroleum Construction Company of Abu Dhabi, UAE for dredging work referred to the installation of an offshore gas pipeline of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company likewise to an existing offshore gas pipeline.
The activities owe to begin in the first quarter of 2016 and will be executed in phases with completion expected in the second half of 2017.
Boskalis will dredge a trench for the installation of the new offshore gas pipeline over a total distance of more than 50 kilometers between Das Island and Ras Al Qila onshore Abu Dhabi.
A medium-sized trailing suction hopper dredger and a large cutter suction dredger will be deployed as well as backhoe dredgers for dredging in shallow waters in this project.
Following its installation, the pipeline will be backfilled.
Besides, Boskalis will be backfilling an existing offshore pipeline with sand over a total distance of 34 kilometers with a trailing suction hopper dredger.
In The Narrows, Dredging operations, undertaken by the Gippsland Ports’ cutter suction dredger ‘Kalimna’, are currently underway.
The dredging works contain sections of the navigable channel to the Northwest of the entrance to North Arm between Buoy No 2 (Fl.R.3s) and Buoy No 6 (Fl.R.3s), the Gippsland Ports stated in its Notice to Mariners.
Pipework extends from the dredger to a connection point on the northern mainland shoreline.
“Mariners are advised to take extra precaution, especially at night, when navigating through The Narrows and to give the dredge a wide berth when passing,” the Gippsland Ports said.
The dredging operations will take about 4 weeks to finish.
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