Resource Environmental Solutions LLC announced the approval by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District of a new 867.9- acre wetland and stream mitigation bank serving north and central Louisiana. The Little Eva Mitigation Bank located in Natchitoches Parish Louisiana will establish and maintain 770.5 acres of bottomland hardwood wetlands more than 13590 linear feet of stream and nearly 60 acres of riparian buffer habitat. Mitigation credits resulting from restoration efforts within the project area will be used to compensate for unavoidable wetland and stream impacts from permitted project activity in the Red River Drainage Basin. Read More

The HYPACK® 2014 USA Training Event will be held in Mobile Alabama January 13 – 16 at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel. Hypack  will  introduce  its  latest  software version HYPACK®… Read More

The HYPACK® 2014 USA Training Event will be held in Mobile Alabama January 13 – 16 at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel. Hypack  will  introduce  its  latest  software version HYPACK®… Read More

Since 2008 Ricky Dawson of Bluff Creek WAM has been using the Pump Vacuum Systems (PVS) JetPump to mine and separate aggregates from sand in two locations in Louisiana. (See IDR January/February 2008 Jet Pump Drives Portable Unit that Re-Mines Tailings.) Because the sand did not meet the size requirements for concrete or hydraulic fracturing (frac) sand it was stockpiled. Read More

Since 2008 Ricky Dawson of Bluff Creek WAM has been using the Pump Vacuum Systems (PVS) JetPump to mine and separate aggregates from sand in two locations in Louisiana. (See IDR January/February 2008 Jet Pump Drives Portable Unit that Re-Mines Tailings.) Because the sand did not meet the size requirements for concrete or hydraulic fracturing (frac) sand it was stockpiled. Read More

35 YEARS AGO – 1978 On the occasion  of the Eighth World Dredging  Conference (WODCON) in Amsterdam  on  November 14 through 16 World Dredging & Marine Construction magazine published a list of statistics for… Read More

35 YEARS AGO – 1978 On the occasion  of the Eighth World Dredging  Conference (WODCON) in Amsterdam  on  November 14 through 16 World Dredging & Marine Construction magazine published a list of statistics for… Read More

EVENTS

November 26, 2013

November 14 – 15.  “Partnering Creates Possibilities” forum on early contractor involve- ment Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Co-sponsored by IADC and EADA.   Contact Jurgen   Dhollander  Project  Manager … Read More

EVENTS

November 26, 2013

November 14 – 15.  “Partnering Creates Possibilities” forum on early contractor involve- ment Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Co-sponsored by IADC and EADA.   Contact Jurgen   Dhollander  Project  Manager … Read More

DREDGING ROUNDUP Latin America

November 26, 2013

COSTA RICA Costa Rica’s Nosara River is being dredged and a dike is being constructed in order to save the surrounding communities from flood problems reports the Voice of Guanacaste. The… Read More