On November 19, 2018, Gator Dredging started construction on a four-year $18 million lake restoration project for Pinellas County’s Lake Seminole in Florida. The project is removing approximately 900,000 cubic… 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.
In March, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District awarded a $4.4 million contract to Environmental Tracing, LLC for a Sediment Morphodynamic Assessment Project to examine sediment transport in… Read More
On April 11, EPA released its second five-year review report for the Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site. The report looked to determine if the remedy was successful, as outlined by… Read More
On May 14, the Great Lakes Dredging Team (GLDT) Technical Committee held a meeting to review the 2018-2019 workplan, including discussion of a draft of the Regional Beneficial Use Testing… Read More
In April, Norfolk Dredging Company (NDC) finished dredging 2.6 million cubic yards from the shipping channels leading to the Port of Baltimore. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) completed the $63 million deepening and widening of Big Bend Channel in April, more than a year ahead of schedule. Work started in… Read More
Maintenance dredging at the Brazilian Port of Rio Grande, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, is 65 percent complete, said Fernando Estima, superintendent at local state-owned port… Read More
In April, U.S. Rep. Bill Posey (FL-08) toured the soon-to-be-completed Canaveral Harbor Sand Bypass Project (Phase 5). Rep. Posey praised the project as a unified effort that keeps Port Canaveral’s… Read More
On April 5, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District reached a project milestone on the Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement Project, removing 4 million cubic yards of dredge… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District held a conference call on April 26 to provide an update on the progress of the Navigation Improvement Study for the Miami… Read More
