The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that when the third season of dredging ends in mid-November a total of more than 1.3 million cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment contaminated will have been removed from the Hudson River since the project began in 2009. Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that when the third season of dredging ends in mid-November a total of more than 1.3 million cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment contaminated will have been removed from the Hudson River since the project began in 2009. Read More

Paraguayans are worried that their favorite resort lake could become a memory as it becomes increasingly choked with contamination and toxic algae. One of the proposed solutions to the problem is to conduct environmental dredging of the lake but leaders in Paraguay are still split about whether this is the most effective method to stop the bacteria. Read More

Paraguayans are worried that their favorite resort lake could become a memory as it becomes increasingly choked with contamination and toxic algae. One of the proposed solutions to the problem is to conduct environmental dredging of the lake but leaders in Paraguay are still split about whether this is the most effective method to stop the bacteria. Read More

The National Research Council (NRC) committee on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science Engineering and Planning has released a report entitled Corps of Engineers Water Resources Structure: Deterioration Investment or Divestment? It reports that the Corps has been unable to maintain its navigation channels locks dams and levees in recent years because of constantly declining budgets. Read More

The National Research Council (NRC) committee on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science Engineering and Planning has released a report entitled Corps of Engineers Water Resources Structure: Deterioration Investment or Divestment? It reports that the Corps has been unable to maintain its navigation channels locks dams and levees in recent years because of constantly declining budgets. Read More

DREDGING ROUNDUP Latin America

December 10, 2012

News items about Cuba; Puerto Rico; Brazil Uruguay Nicaragua; Panama; Costa Rica; Venezuela; Colombia; Argentina; Bolivia; El Salvador; Suriname Read More

DREDGING ROUNDUP Latin America

December 10, 2012

News items about Cuba; Puerto Rico; Brazil Uruguay Nicaragua; Panama; Costa Rica; Venezuela; Colombia; Argentina; Bolivia; El Salvador; Suriname Read More

2012 Index of Articles

December 10, 2012

A listing of all articles appearing in IDR in 2012. Key to issue numbers: #1 - January/February; #2 - March/April; #3 - May/June; #4 - July/August; #5 - September/October; #6 - November/December Read More