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
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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
Highlights from dredging news 30 20 and 10 years ago. Read More
On September 28 the Jan De Nul Group signed a contract with the Peruvian Government to deepen the Port of Callao entrance channel from the existing 14 meters (46 feet)… Read More
The WEDA Gulf Coast Chapter will meet in New Orleans at the Hotel Monteleone on November 2 and 3 (Tuesday and Wednesday). There will be a tour of the Inner… Read More
McElroy has introduced a pipe-fusion-focused Apple iTunes application for iPhone iPad and iPod Touch. The McCalc Fusion Pressure Calculator is a free application that helps a fusion machine operator to find the correct fusion pressure calculations for a job. Read More
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2010 is moving forward with bi-partisan support in both the House and Senate. Good news came in August when Barry Holliday announced that… Read More
On September 9 2009 I met with a group of planners and project managers from the New York District Corps of Engineers for a boat tour of some of the area encompassed by the Hudson-Raritan Estuary Comprehensive Restoration Plan. Read More
The Corps of Engineers Memphis District Ensley Engineer Yard (EEY) and the Corps Marine Design Center (MDC) have completed the lengthening of the Corps of Engineers dustpan Dredge Hurley by 48 feet. The project increased the dredges length from 305 feet to 353 feet making it one of the largest vessels on the Mississippi River and increased the dredges dredging depth from 40 feet to a maximum of 75 feet. Read More
