The New Orleans Engineer District has announced a pair of virtual public meetings to discuss and receive comment on the recently released draft update to the Environmental Impact Statement for… 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.
Seattle-based Manson Construction Company has announced a contract with Keppel AmFELS of Brownsville, Texas, to build a new trailing suction hopper dredge to be named the Frederick Paup. The dredge,… Read More
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, the shortcut between the Tennessee River in the north and Mobile Harbor and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in the south, is wrapping up a busy dredging and… Read More
A riverfront park planned for southern Indiana, just across the Ohio River from Louisville, Ky., is being designed as “climate resilient.” The River Heritage Conservancy is developing the proposed 600-acre… Read More
Less than six weeks after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Louisiana signed the project partnership agreement for deepening the Mississippi River Ship Channel from Baton… Read More
Mariners and anglers lucky enough to have visited the Chandeleur Sound by way of Baptiste Collette late this summer likely beheld an island of avian wonder as they left the… Read More
Three members of Congress and lots of heavy equipment joined members of the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, Corps of Engineers and U.S. Coast Guard leaders August 31 to celebrate the… Read More
In the town of Lorain, Ohio, a pilot program for an innovative way of dewatering and processing dredged material could point the way toward the future of dredged material disposal… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Mississippi River mainline levees (MRL) that make up the Mississippi River and Tributaries… Read More
Representatives from Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Weeks Marine gathered at Eastern’s Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla., August 19 to celebrate the steel cutting for the R.B. Weeks, a forthcoming… Read More
