Comments by Barry Holliday when presenting the award at the Congressional Reception on May 26 in Washington D.C.The Dredging Contractors of America has presented the William R. Murden Lifetime Public Service Achievement Award for many years to an individual usually from the Corps of Engineers - who over their career has made an outstanding contribution to the nations dredging and navigation program. Read More
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The Imperial Diversion Dam was built between 1936 and 1938 on the Colorado River approximately 18 miles northeast of Yuma Arizona on River Mile 49.3. The Colorado River in this location forms the boundary between California and Arizona. Read More
Speakers at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Dredging Meeting May 26 in Washington D.C. devoted a great deal of time on funding future dredging quality management communication navigation and a number of other related areas. But topping the list of concerns expressed by dredgers had to be safety. Read More
On June 30 Ellicott Dredges was awarded a $3247000 contract by the Bureau of Reclamation of the US Department of Interior to provide a 14-inch cutterhead dredge 20000 feet of pipeline two booster pumps and a dredge tender. The dredge will be used to clear silt from upstream of the Imperial Dam and other areas and will pump 16000 feet to the 1500-acre Laguna settling basin. Read More
The Imperial Diversion Dam was built between 1936 and 1938 on the Colorado River approximately 18 miles northeast of Yuma Arizona on River Mile 49.3. The Colorado River in this location forms the boundary between California and Arizona. Read More
Dredging schedules along the coasts have been dictated by the sea turtle nesting season and migration patterns for decades so it was discouraging to learn that all species of sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico are at risk and are dying as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Read More
Bean Dredging led by Ancil Taylor is the dredging advisor for the State of Louisiana. The company is working with the Shaw Group to facilitate the unprecedented effort to build sand berms along the Louisiana coastline to stop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from entering the bays and marshes along the coast. Read More
Dredging schedules along the coasts have been dictated by the sea turtle nesting season and migration patterns for decades so it was discouraging to learn that all species of sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico are at risk and are dying as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Read More
Bean Dredging led by Ancil Taylor is the dredging advisor for the State of Louisiana. The company is working with the Shaw Group to facilitate the unprecedented effort to build sand berms along the Louisiana coastline to stop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from entering the bays and marshes along the coast. Read More
Construction employment edged closer to stabilizing in June as half the states either added construction jobs or kept the same number as in May the Associated General Contractors reported in… Read More
