The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works visited the Charleston District in October. Her visit included a trip to Charleston Harbor where she announced that… Read More
Dredging & Marine Construction
The Waterways Journal has been covering dredging and marine construction news on the inland rivers since 1887. Now, with the combined power of IDR (International Dredging Review), we cover this news in greater depth, expanding our coverage to major projects along all US waterways, coastlines and the Great Lakes.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District has released a request for proposals for the maintenance of Atchafalaya River Bar Channel leading from the Gulf of Mexico to the Port of Morgan… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District announced a 12-month pause in the feasibility study for the Alaska Deep-Draft Arctic Port System in order to revalidate the potential economic… Read More
In 2015 final Tier 4 standards for regulating diesel engine emission standards went into effect. The standards affect all diesel engine applications including dredges and Tier 4 requirements should be… Read More
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) chose the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island in Maryland as the winner of the 2015 Innovation in Sustainable Engineering… Read More
Streamside Technology LLC has introduced and is testing the Bedload Collector – a passive structure that traps coarse-grained sediment removing it from the bedload of a river stream or ocean… Read More
On November 16 Damen Dredging Equipment held a naming ceremony in Nijkerk the Netherlands for the second of Van Oord’s Model 650 cutter suction dredges the Mangystau. The naming ceremony… Read More
Three years after Hurricane Sandy the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the 25th and final flood control and coastal emergency project in October 2015. Together with its federal state… Read More
Faced with having to build a parking garage below the water table a contractor in Copenhagen Denmark turned to watering and dredging as a cost-effective alternative to dewatering and excavating. The building project in… Read More
TULSA DISTRICT DREDGES LAKE FOR WATER STORAGE The U.S. Corps of Engineers Tulsa District announced November 3 that dredging commenced at Waurika Lake to reclaim water storage for six southwestern Oklahoma municipalities. The dredging operation… Read More
