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

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

Oiled Turtles Rescued

October 13, 2010

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

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

Douglas B. Mackie has stepped down as president and chief executive officer of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company and Johathan Berger has been appointed by the board of directros as chief executive officer. Deborah A. Wensel has resigned as chief financial officer and treasurer of the company and will assist in the transition as consultant until the end of the year. Bruce J. Biemeck has been appointed president and chief financial officer. Read More