Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced on October 16 that Major General Merdith W.B. (Bo) Temple will become the Deputy Commanding General (DCG) of the Corps of Engineers in January 2010. Read More
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On September 30 the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the San Pedro Waterfront Project. The 400-acre waterfront infrastructure and revitalization initiative will extend from the Ports inner harbor cruise facilities to Cabrillo Beach in the outer harbor. Included in the plans are the creation of three new small harbors for visiting and commercial boats along the waterfront requiring 605000 cubic yards of dredging. Read More
Descriptions of new concrete docks a small multi-functional dredge and a specialized excavator equipped with a Liebherr excavator. Read More
Trimble has provided these instructions for mounting GPS antennas when using Trimble SPS361 and SPS461 heading receivers and SPSx51+SPS551H which are dual-antenna systems. Read More
RECOVERY. Dunkirk Harbor New York Dredging. To Geo. Gradel Company for $987722 line item DN01 on July 31 2009 by the Buffalo District Corps of Engineers. W911XK-08-D-0006–DN01/ W912P4-09-R-7777 Beachfill: Harvey… Read More
Export to Google Earth improved OpenGL graphics new sonar interfaces new SURVEY window and new ADCP logging and processing capabilities are among the new HYPACK software features to be demonstrated at the 2010 HYPACK annual training conference. The event will take place from Monday January 18 through Thursday January 21 at the new Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina in Tampa Florida. The training will cover all the aspects of single beam and multi-beam hydrographic surveying and dredge management using HYPACK HYSWEEP and DREDGEPACK packages. Read More
List of all articles and features that appeared in IDR in 2009 sorted by topic Read More
CARIS is accepting submissions for papers for its annual International User Group Conference CARIS 2010: Stronger Together People Products Infrastructure. The five-day event will be held from March 22 through 25 2010 in Miami Florida. Read More
The American Association of Port Authorities presented the 2009 Facilities Engineering Award of Excellence to the Port Hueneme California Confined Aquatic Disposal (CAD) site.Anchor QEA provided environmental review permitting support design construction document development and construction support for the Southern California CAD facility and Manson Construction Company was the contractor. Read More
IHC Merwede held a naming and launch ceremony for the 12000 cubic meter hopper dredge Gateway on September 26. The event took place at the companys yard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam the Netherlands. Read More
