J.F. Brennan has finished the Operable Unit 1 (OU1) cleanup and capping at Little Lake Buttes des Morts on Wisconsins Fox River. This section of the project is six miles long and contains 1363 acres. Two eight-inch articulated ladder DSC dredges were used to dredge 260 acres and 110 acres were capped with sand gravel or a combination to stabilize the contaminants. Read More
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Rotonics Manufacturing Inc. has introduced an improved Bolt Locking Standard Pipe Float series for its customers in the dredging construction mining and aggregate industries. Read More
The Education section of the second Agg1 conference will contain a significant focus on dredging. The Mining Reclamation and Dredging committee met by conference call on June 30 and discussed potential topics for the 2010 conference which will be held in Cincinnati on February 15 through 18 at the Duke Energy Convention Center. Fifteen topics were suggested both in the conference call and in succeeding days of which six were on dredging reported Charles Johnson committee member. Read More
Chris Nelson joined Supreme Manufacturing Inc. as vice president and National Sales Manager as of June 8. Nelson has nearly 20 years of experience in the floating clamshell dredge industry and was formerly general manager at Rohr Corporation. Read More
Vortex Marine Construction is using the dredge DB Vengeance equipped with a 10 cubic yard Cable Arm bucket on the Richmond California entrance channel. Read More
Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered two cutter dredges a Model CSD450 and a CSD500 to Caspian Marine Services (CMS) to work in Azerbaijan. CMS provides ship-operating services in the Caspian Sea. Read More
On August 6 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that General Electric had discovered elevated dissolved PCBs at the Thompson Island dam a mile downstream of the environmental dredging operation to clean remove the contaminants from the Hudson River. Read More
PIANC USA the International Navigation Association held its annual general meeting in Pittsburgh the week of July 13th. Known as the Three Rivers area Pittsburgh is at the confluence of the Ohio the Monongahela and the Allegheny Rivers. Read More
Knudsen Engineering Limited (KEL) has received a contract from International Submarine Engineering (ISE) of Port Coquitlam British Columbia Canada to supply arctic sensors for installation on two new ISE Explorer Class autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Read More
Ruud Ouwerkerk left accepts the best paper award from Bill Hanson at the Western Dredging Association meeting in June. Look for our report on this award and other awards presentations… Read More
