Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general and chief of engineers, signed the Chief’s Report for the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Study on September 16. 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 Galveston Engineer District has released its final feasibility report and environmental impact statement as part of the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Study. The results could prove to be… Read More
Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of dredging services, announced this month a whopping $261.3 million in new contract awards. The largest share of that… Read More
Kentucky expects to have a marketing toolkit and a final report out to each of its 11 riverports next month, designed to help each one grow. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet… Read More
There are roughly 800 miles between Pennsylvania and Alabama, but distance was no barrier to 13 people who traveled from the Pittsburgh Engineer District to the Gulf region to begin… Read More
In early August, the New Orleans Engineer District released the final version of the Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity (LPV) and the West Bank & Vicinity (WBV) General Re-evaluation Reports, which… Read More
Crews expected to begin pumping water out from behind a cofferdam within the next few days as the Kentucky Lock Addition Project moved forward. The cofferdam was completed in March. Read More
The Detroit Engineer District recently awarded a contract for dredging at Duluth-Superior Harbor in western Lake Superior on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. The more than $2 million contract was awarded to… Read More
Manson Construction Company and Keppel AmFELS Inc. reached another on-time milestone August 2, celebrating with a keel-laying ceremony for the hopper dredge Frederick Paup. The keel-laying represents the official commencement of… Read More
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, buttressed by representatives from the state’s Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA), along with other federal, state and local officials, held a groundbreaking ceremony July… Read More
