Dredging Project in Flinders Ports has been Approved

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It is reported that Planning Minister Stephan Knoll announced today that the South Australian Government is giving Flinders Ports the green light to widen the Outer Harbor shipping channel to increase the region’s export capacity and grow the economy.

The project involves dredging 1.55 million m³ of material along 7 km of channel and disposing dredge spoil over a 7 km by 5 km area into deep water (>30 m) in the middle of Gulf St Vincent, approximately 30 km from Outer Harbor.According to Flinders Ports, the volume is approximately half the amount of material that was removed from Outer Harbor in the 2005 Channel Deepening project, not double as suggested in recent media coverage.

This project is significant to local environment.Flinders Ports is planing to begin dredging works in Autumn 2018. This will avoid dredging in summer when seagrass is more susceptible to damage from turbidity impacts.

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A dredging project will begin at point Grey, Mandurah

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It is reported that a dredging project will begin at point Grey,Mandurah.Maintenance dredging that will widen and restore safe navigation depths to the Point Grey Channel-the waterway linking the Peel Inlet.

“The $675,000 project will take three months to complete and see approximately 13,000 cubic meters of sand taken from the channel,” Mr Jenkins said. “The dredged material, to be pumped through a series of floating and submerged pipes, has been approved to be deposited in the Peel Inlet 600 meters north east of the eastern end of the channel.”

This project is significant to local area.An additional barge will also be located approximately 600 meters east of the Harvey Channel, connected to floating pipeline. This area will be delineated with yellow marker buoys, equipped with flashing yellow lights.

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Everything is ready for Lake Cathie Dredging

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It is reported that a dredger has arrived at Lake Cathie and will be moved into position over the coming days, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council said in their latest release.

Approximately 21,000 cubic meters of sand will be dredged, and relocated to the edge of Foreshore Reserve to reclaim open space that has been lost to erosion in recent years.Sand will also be relocated for beach replenishment along approximately 400m of the beach, fronting Illaroo Rd, the council said.

It is significant to conduct this dredging .Dredging operations, to be conducted by National Dredging Solutions, are expected to take approximately 7 weeks to complete (weather permitting).Dredging operations are expected to start on Monday, 21 May.

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The emergency dredging at Ettalong channel

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It is reported that NSW Lands Minister Paul Toole visited Ettalong this morning to announce the government would contribute a quarter of a million dollars towards emergency works.

“The NSW government is going to provide around $250,000 of funding for emergency dredging,” he said.He also said an estimated 20,000 cubic metres of sand would have to be removed and it would take anywhere from two to four weeks to get ferries back up and running.Emergency dredging is completely separate to the Rescuing Our Waterways 50/50 funding. Mr Toole said if council had been making earlier applications for the Rescuing Our Waterways funding over the past few years, the channel would not be in this situation.

The project will benefit local people and environment.It is significant to conduct this project.

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The Dredging Program in Dillingham Begins

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It is reported that an annual dredging program at the Dillingham small boat harbor is set to begin this week.

Every year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is tasked with pumping a slurry of mud and water out of the harbor and back into the bay. On average, dredgers remove 90,000 cubic yards of muck.According to Dillingham port director, Jean Barrett, the quantity will be slightly greater this year.”I’m guessing somewhere around 110,000 cubic yards. It looks to be a little fuller than it was last year, and we did just under 100,000 last year,” said Barrett.Once they get the south end of the harbor dredged out where we can put our floats in and the ramps in, then they’ll be able to use that end,” said Barrett. “People can use the harbor when the dredge is in there also. Just we need to makes sure that everyone is following rules and being careful.”

It is expected that the project will take about three weeks to complete,and it is significant to local people and environment.

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The dredging project has started in Karumba port

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It is reported that annual dredging has restarted at the Port of Karumba, as part of ASX-listed New Century play Resources’restart of the Century zinc mine, in Queensland.

The 2018 dredging programme would see New Century invest A$6.8-million in the first dredging activities to be undertaken at Karumba since early 2016. The dredging programme will bring the channel back to 3.2 m depth, allowing transshipment of zinc concentrate to bulk cargo export vessels.The dredging programme will run for around 60 days and is scheduled for completion in July this year.

The restarting of mining operations and zinc concentrate exports from the Century mine is expected in the third quarter of this year, with first production scheduled in August.The dredging would also provide significant benefits to third-party users of the Karumba port area, allowing expansion of existing cattle exports and commercial fishing operations.

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