Baton Rouge: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert Barham has announced the following additional closures to recreational and commercial fishing activities in portions of state inside waters… Read More
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Nalco (NYSE:NLC) confirmed that it is providing oil dispersants and support to BP and the responders dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The company will continue to provide these dispersants as requested for as long as responders have the need. Read More
U.S. Dredging Contract awards from February 3 through March 25 2010 Read More
In April the construction consortium PUMA moved and placed 3.8 million cubic meters of sand in one week during the Maasvlakte 2 land reclamation project in the North Sea. Eleven Boskalis and Van Oord hopper dredges are working on the project. Read More
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined by Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley was back in the Gulf Coast on May 24 to monitor EPA’s on-the-ground… Read More
Gulf Island Fabrication Inc. of Houma Louisiana received a contract on May 7 to replace the upper deckhouse and pilot house of the Corps of Engineers Dredge Potter in a $9410156 contract. Read More
The waterway extends from Norfolk Virginia to the Florida Keys and includes scores of shoaling areas that are a hazard to navigation.Approximately 75 users and stakeholders in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway assembled in Savannah Georgia last November for the 10th anniversary meeting of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA). Read More
On April 15 U.S. Sen. Carl Levin D-Mich. introduced S.3213 - the Harbor Maintenance Act of 2010 a bill to ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used for harbor maintenance and ensure funding for federal ports and harbors across the nation. Read More
Hemisphere GPS has launched the Earthworks Business Unit to design and manufacture products for the construction market. The Earthworks product line is focused on machine guidance and control of earth-moving machinery. Read More
The federal budget request for FY2011 released by President Obama Feb. 1 is a “discouraging step backward for one of the nation’s most critical waterways” according to the Atlantic Intracoastal… Read More
