Angela Y. Premo was honored by the Dredging Contractors of America on May 25 with the William R. Murden Lifetime Public Service award. She retired on March 2 2011 from a 33-year career in the Corps of Engineers devoted mainly to dredging and navigation projects and programs. Read More
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Norfolk Dredging Companys 10000 horsepower dredge Charleston is deepening five miles of the Navy channel in the Elizabeth River from Lamberts Point to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth Virginia. The 24-inch discharge line which began at 21000 feet long will eventually stretch for 50000 feet from the dredge to the Norfolk Districts Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area in Portsmouth. Read More
Damen Dredging has provided DOP pumps and special cutters to dredging contractor Martens & van Oord for a dredging project in Rotterdam where the area is riddled with 2500 pilings and the material to be dredged is a heavy clay. Read More
Jon Berger ceo and director of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock LLC described the companys activities and goals to the 2011 Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Basic Materials Conference on June 16. Read More
The Corps hopper Dredge Yaquina turned 30 in June and Mac Robison chief of the Portland District Plant Maintenance Section has been with the dredge throughout its life. Read More
Ingram Industries Inc. of Nashville Tennessee and Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel Co. of Pine Bluff Arkansas announced July 13 that they have agreed for Ingram to sell its Ingram Materials LLC subsidiary to Pine Bluff. Read More
On July 12 the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) of Kenya stopped the dredging of Likoni channel because of alleged breach of environmental constraints.Iddi Mambo chairman of the Coast Development Transparency Initiative (Codeti) informed NEMA that waste that was to have been discharged 50 miles at sea by Contractor Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors was seen floating near shore. Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) announced on July 20 that it had entered into a joint venture with Environmental Remediation Holding Inc. (ERH) a subsidiary of DEC of Belgium. Read More
Patrick McLaren's Sediment Trend Analysis (STA) determines the patterns of net sediment transport and their dynamic behavior. Samples are simply observations and the derived patterns of transport explain the observations he says.Because only one pattern can ever be found linking the sample distributions Im 100 percent confident that the derived understanding of how the environment is working is correct he says. Read More
The Corps of Engineers has embarked on a pilot project to aid local governments in maintaining federal channels not included in the federal budget. Funds allocated by Corps headquarters were made available in February of this year and all seven projects are going forward. Read More
