First Phase of Old Sandwich Harbor Dredging Project Was Approved

The Woods Hole Group is working with the town on the project, which would see the dredging of the Harbor and placing the sediment onto Town Neck Beach.

The first phase of this project consists of reviewing existing information, conducting an ecological habitat assessment including a shellfish survey, field data collection and holding a regulatory meeting. Phase two would consist of a hydrodynamics assessment and alternative development and analysis, while phase three would feature engineering design and plans and environmental permitting.

The total cost for phase one is $48,800 and if it goes forward, phase two and three would cost $66,000 and $70,000 respectively.

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Ouachita-Black Rivers Dredging Project

An additional $2 million funding to dredge the Ouachita-Black Rivers Navigation Project in Arkansas and Louisiana will allocate by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Ouachita-Black Rivers Navigation Project provides dependable year-round commercial navigation from the mouth of the Black River to Camden, a distance of approximately 337 river miles.

Each project has a lock chamber 84 feet wide and 600 feet in length to ensure the waterway is fully maintained for commercial navigation.

This dredging project provides multiple direct and indirect benefits beyond navigation by providing both public and commercial water supply and discharge benefits, recreational benefits, fish and wildlife conservation benefits, and flood damage reduction benefits that all together enhance and improve the quality of life of the people in the Ouachita River Basin in Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Back Bay Dredging Works

Ocean City to host town hall meeting on Saturday morning to discuss dredging project on the back bay. ACT Engineering officials will present the plans for the 2017 dredging program and other long-term efforts to keep the lagoons and channels navigable.

Bigger boats have trouble navigating the bay because of years of siltation in water accessways. It has been long trying for the city to tackle more than 900,000 cubic yards of silt that has built up in the back bay, narrowing channels and causing problems for boaters. The city has done several small dredgings in the past two years.

It will continue to use the confined disposal facility site at Route 52 to complete mechanical dredging projects at the north end of the island this summer.

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Holland Harbor Dredging Will Start in June

Holland-based King Company, Inc. has been awarded $374,000 dredging contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday, May 26. This project will start in June and complete in July.

This project will dredge approximately 34,000 cubic yards of material from the harbor. The funds are also being used to dredge 30,000 cubic yards of material from the St. Joseph Outer Harbor. Material from both sites will be placed south of the south breakwater between the ordinary high water mark and a four-foot contour that is closest to land.

Holland Harbor is located on the east shore of Lake Michigan, 95 miles northeast from Chicago and 23 miles south of Grand Haven. These channels need to be kept open for “important cargo.” At Holland Harbor, this includes coal, building materials, petroleum products and other miscellaneous needs.

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Dredging of Hammond Cove

The long-awaited dredging project in a portion of Hammond Cove is inching closer to realization. Bids will be solicited in a Request for Proposal, with this part of the project will be under the purview of NYC Economic Development Corporation. It is now just a matter of executing the grants, which will allow the NYC EDC to initiate planning and design for the dredging work.

The NYC Department of Environmental Conservation is facilitating the project and secured the grants, $150,000 for project planning, $1 million for the actual work. This project will remove approximately 20,000 cubic yards. In addition, soil samples taken last summer have proven to contain little if any material that could cause environmental concerns, meaning that the dredging work should be easier and less costly.

The dredging of the cove has been a top community priority for years. This project would allow boaters to motor or sail out of the cove and enjoy Long Island Sound without being a prisoner to the tide during some loe tides. Governor Cuomo’s environmental leadership and an environmental protection fund help DEC “continue working with waterfront communities to advance projects like Hammond Cove” while protecting natural resources on waterfronts.

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$1.36 Million Local Bid for Rockport Harbor Dredging

Derrick Construction Company won $1.36 Million maintenance dredging of Rockport harbor.

At the regular meetings on Monday, May 15, Aransas County Navigation District (ACND) commissioners approved the low bid of Derrick Construction Company for maintenance dredging of Rockport harbor. The district received six bids, ranging from $1,358,850 to $9,710,938.

Bidders were asked to provide a base bid, to provide dredging of the harbor south of the boat basin (between the breakwater and the bulkhead along the harborfront property), and an optional additive bid, to dredge areas inside the actual boat basin.

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