.The Presidents budget for fiscal year 2009 would cut Great Lakes dredging funds by 35 percent. Such a slash will have major economic impacts on the region warned officers of the Great Lakes Maritime Task Force (GLMTF). Read More
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.The Hamburg Port Authority has selected Trimble to supply four of its new generation of GPS and GLONASS receivers. Read More
. Pump Vacuum Systems has developed the PVS Compact Aggregate Unit designed around the companys patented PVS JetPump. The unit is a modular portable plant for mining old tailings which separates the usable product and returns the tailings to the mine for smoothing and reclamation. Read More
.Dredging-related exhibits at the 2008 CONEXPO-ConAgg show Read More
Ogden Beeman died on January 12 2008. He was born March 13 1935 in Oak Park Illinois and grew up in Portland Oregon. He graduated from Stanford University in… Read More
.In late December 2007 both houses of the U.S. Congress passed the $555 billion Omnibus Spending Bill for FY08. It included $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan insisted upon by President George W. Bush and $10 billion for local projects described by President Bush |!|wasteful government spending|!| as he signed the bill on December 26. Read More
.On Thursday January 24th Randive Inc. received an urgent phone call from Great Lakes Dredge & Dock requesting immediate dispatch of dive teams to the dredge New York. Within 45 minutes of the initial call a six-man dive team was on site. Read More
Automation will increase production especially on sand and gravel dredges.Many U.S. dredges still utilize pneumatic and hydraulic technology for process control and information feedback. Production data when it exists is usually written down on a piece of paper. More often actual production information isn't obtained until a survey is done and compared to the original site survey. Real-time information showing where and how much the dredge is digging is often unavailable. Determining the depth that a dredge is digging at is usually determined with a calibrated stick or length of line hung overboard. Read More
. The federal budget for 2009 released by President Bush on February 4 is a discouraging step backward for one of the nations most critical waterways according to the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA). Read More
