Damen Dredger Starts Work at Gippsland Lakes

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Tommy Norton, a Damen trailing suction hopper dredger built at Damen Shipyards Yichang has been delivered to Gippsland Ports.The suction hopper dredger has been put into dredging work as soon as it arrived.

Capable of dredging to depths of 15m, the dredger has been built with bottom doors to enable self-emptying and can alternate between a bow connection and rainbow expulsion for beach reclamation work. In order to increase the vessel’s payload capacity when dredging sand with a high specific density, Damen has reduced the freeboard of the vessel and applied a dredge mark.

The 60m dredger has now started work to deliver safe and reliable ocean access for the commercial vessels, oil and gas suppliers and commercial fishing fleet that cross the entrance bar to the Gippsland Lakes area. The maintenance dredging also helps reduce the risk of flooding to local communities.

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Nieuwe Waterweg and Botlek Deepening Project

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2017.10.09

The Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are going to deepen the Nieuwe Waterweg and the Botlek.

A tender for the project has been issued. It will involve a 1.5m deepening along a 25km stretch of waterway between Hoek van Holland, the Benelux Tunnel and the adjoining Botlek port.

Carrying out the project will improve accessibility to the Botlek ports. The deepening will begin in the spring of 2018 and will take around six months.

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Dredging Project at Barnegat Bay

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New Jersey transportation officials on Monday announced an $8.7 million projected to dredge channels in Barnegat Bay – specifically near the area of Barnegat Inlet. This portion of the project will include five heavily-traveled channels: Double Creek Mainland, Double Creek Inlet, High Bar Harbor, and Barnegat Light Stake.

NJDOT’s contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, is now working to place pipeline in or near the channels, which will be both submerged and floating. The pipeline will be used to pump sediment to the Oyster Creek Confined Disposal Facility (CDF) and sand to the Barnegat Light beach near the Barnegat Lighthouse Stake Park.

Dredging operations are expected to begin in early October and continue 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week through the end of December. This project will ensure renewed safe navigation and maintain these Barnegat Bay Channels in a state of good repair.

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Boston Harbor Dredging Project

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The $350 million state and federally funded dredging project recently kicked off. Many dignitaries involved in this project included Gov. Charlie Baker, local government officials, members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the International Longshoremen’s Association, the Massachusetts Port Authority.

This project will deepen the outer harbor, the main shipping channel and reserved channel, and dredge the inner harbor. The outer harbor channel will be deepened from 40 to 51 feet, the main shipping channel from 40 to 47 feet, and the reserved channel from 40 to 47 feet.

Conley Container Terminal, on the reserved channel, will be able to accommodate 12,000 20-foot-equivalent-unit cargo ships. Deepening Boston Harbor and supporting infrastructure investments at Conley Container Terminal is crucial to Massachusetts and New England’s competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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Charleston Harbor Deepening Project

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This $47 million harbor deepening project is awarded to Illinois-based Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co and the federal partner will work alongside the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) for the Port of Charleston’s entrance channel deepening project.

It will be required to deepen the harbor’s existing entrance from 47 to 54 feet. This project is expected to be completed by the spring of 2020, will encompass the dredging and relocation of about 6 million cubic yards of material to an offshore site.

Officials said the deepening is vital to the port’s future, as it will increase its ability to accommodate larger, heavier container ships transiting the recently expanded Panama Canal to call on East Coast ports.

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Dredging Project in Flint River

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The dredging project, work along a 1/3 of a mile stretch of the Flint River has been going on for months.

Consumers Energy is paying to remove tons of coal tar waste along the river in downtown Flint. The coal tar waste is the legacy of a gasification plant that closed almost a century ago. The dredging work is used to contain excavations in the river and it collects sheen and sediments that otherwise might travel over the dam.

Consumers had to add additional booms to contain sediment and oily sheen from flowing downstream. The work is expected to be complete by mid-November.

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