On May 19 the Corps of Engineers Portland District christened two new survey boats naming them after Jake Redlinger and Art Elton District employees who had made their mark on the dredging and hydrographic surveying missions of the District. Read More
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On August 16 The Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 posted a draft peer review of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup project in its Web site.A consultant connected with the project asked Ray Bergeron president of Cable Arm Clamshell to comment on several paragraphs in the review. Bergeron has released the comments to International Dredging Review. (See Hudson River Trustees Urge Continued Dredging by David Murray IDR July/August 2010) Read More
The Trimble Heavy and Highway Division has released the Trimble SPS852 GNSS modular receiver and SPS552H GNSS heading add-on receiver for marine heavy and highway contractors. Read More
By September 8 the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans had provided care to 190 sea turtles losing only three reported Meghan Calhoun of the Institute. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been slowly releasing some of the turtles off the West Coast of Florida she said. Read More
Hemisphere GPS has introduced the Crescent Vector II OEM board and a range of Crescent Vector II GPS compass products: V101 Series VS101 Series and LV101 OEM board. Read More
As of mid-August dredges working on the protective berms along the Louisiana coast had moved six million cubic yards of sand Ancil Taylor told IDR. Taylor is part of the team from Bean Dredging Company that has been hired to manage the dredging contracts on the project. Three quarters of the sand has been deposited in offshore re-handling areas to be pumped onto the berms and three miles of berm are fully complete with others in progress and stopping oil.When there is rough weather that pushes oil onto the berms the National Guard sends soldiers or contractors to pick up the oil and dredging is stopped until the oil has been removed. The dredging project will avoid areas where oil is sighted. Read More
Tideland Signal has delivered 24 SB-138P channel marker buoys complete with SolaMAX140 lanterns to mark the newly-developed Zakum Islands 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the shore of Abu Dhabi. Read More
Highlights from dredging news 30 20 and 10 years ago. Read More
On August 16 The Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 posted a draft peer review of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup project in its Web site.A consultant connected with the project asked Ray Bergeron president of Cable Arm Clamshell to comment on several paragraphs in the review. Bergeron has released the comments to International Dredging Review. (See Hudson River Trustees Urge Continued Dredging by David Murray IDR July/August 2010) Read More
By September 8 the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans had provided care to 190 sea turtles losing only three reported Meghan Calhoun of the Institute. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been slowly releasing some of the turtles off the West Coast of Florida she said. Read More
