Interagency Team Implements National Dredging Policy so that Dredging of U.S. Harbors, Channels is Conducted in a Timely, Cost Effective Manner While Meeting Environmental Goals The National Dredging Team NDT was established in July 1995 to promote national and regional consistency on dredging issues and to provide...
The Corps will hold its annual National Dredging Meeting May 22 at the Hilton Hotel, 6550 Loisdale Road, in Springfield, Va. The conference runs from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It features talks on dredging safety, the Environmental Research Program, provisions in the Water Resources Development...
Dredging at hazardous waste sites, particularly ones contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs, may not be a successful remediation strategy, according to a recent study. Blasland, Bouck & Lee (BB&L) concluded in Dredging-Related Sampling of Manistique Harbor that large-scale dredging did not decrease, and...
Business Editors FAIRFIELD, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 17, 2001-- *T I. Source Control will Achieve the Same Level of Reductions of PCBs in Fish as Dredging with None of Dredging's Harmful Impacts When assumptions about resuspension...
Nov. 6--NEW DELHI -- Union minister of shipping, road transport and highways TR Baalu has asked major ports to step up dredging work. He has asked chairpersons of the 12 major ports to ensure that they dedicate all available equipment for dredging requirements. Dredging capacity needs...
Rebecca Katers is going to try very hard not to let her discouragement show, but she's tired, to say the very least. With the PCB dredging efforts having ceased on Little Lake Butte Des Morts and the Fox River for the season, the Environmental Protection Agency and state...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to begin a dredging project on the Wicomico River in January. The dredging is scheduled to last a month, said Army Corps spokesman Chris Augsburger. But similar projects in the Ocean City Inlet and elsewhere are still in the planning stages, and...
Workers have started dredging waters in Grenada's main harbor for a new port that will accommodate the latest generation of giant cruise ships, engineers said, reports AP (April 27, 2003): The dredging of about 10 acres four hectares was expected to be done in...
By Charles Seabrook, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 14--The federal government's controversial dredging of the Apalachicola River from the Georgia-Florida border to the Gulf of Mexico would end under bills introduced in Congress on Tuesday. A...
* Environmentalists are mounting a campaign aimed at ending commercial dredging of sand and gravel from the Kansas River, according to a report from the Associated Press. The Sierra Club and others argue the dredging spurs bank erosion, adversely affects the flow of the river, destabilizes structures such as bridges...
Byline: Andrew McGarry Dec 22, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- On 22 December 2005 the South Australian SA Minister for the Murray, Karlene Maywald, announced...
TRENTON, New Jersey ENS — --> An environmental dredging test project on the lower Passaic River in New Jersey begun last week will pave the way for wider cleanup of the river. The removal of 5,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from a 1.5 acre area in the Passaic...
By Michael Hines, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 8--NORFOLK, Va.--Dredging of the Norfolk Harbor Channel to make way for larger ships could start next year, Sen. George Allen, R-Va., said on Monday. Allen said...
N.Y. DREDGING DECISION FLAWED: A federal district court has admonished the Corps for failing to adequately justify its refusal to produce a supplementary environmental impact study for conducting dredging in the Newark Bay area of the New York harbor. In response to a suit brought by...
The Wilmington District is seeking a firm to provide dredging services along a navigation channel between the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge and the Hilton Railroad Bridge in New Hanover and Brunswick counties, N.C. Under W912PM-05-R-0010, the contract is unrestricted and a pre-proposal conference will be held....
This research developed an improved method for optimizing the disposal of dredged material at offshore disposal sites. A nonlinear programming model has been developed to assist in the development of dredging plans at open water disposal sites. The model has been developed based on conditions at the near-shore open water...
DonJon Marine Co. Inc. of Hillside, N.J. won a maintenance dredging contract for work in the Raritan Bay Reach in New Jersey. The contract involves dredging in the Sequine Point section of the federal navigation channel with subsequent placement of t DonJon Marine Co. Inc. of...
NEW YORK, New York ENS — --> A federal court judge has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is violating federal law by ignoring environmental health and safety concerns related to planned dredging in the middle of a highly contaminated Superfund site beneath the New York-New Jersey harbor....
CORPS DREDGING RATIONALE FAULTED. The General Accounting Office GAO, in response to a congressional request, has assessed the result of a legislative directive to privatize the Corps' hopper dredging operations. GAO found that the privatization has CORPS DREDGING RATIONALE FAULTED. The General Accounting Office GAO,...
The Corps has proposed reducing its fleet of active hopper dredges from three to two. As a result, the agency will save money and will increase the opportunity for private firms to gain federal dredging contracts. The agency submitted its proposal to Congress on Nov. 15. ...
