August 30, 2018 - Ellicott Dredges

Enbridge wrapping up Kalamazoo River oil spill cleanup and restoration

Source: mlive.com COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI — This is the last summer the Kalamazoo River will be the scene of heavy dredging activity, as Enbridge Inc. cleans up the mess from a pipeline leak that sent an estimated 800,000 gallons of crude oil into Talmadge Creek and the river. Nearly four years later since the spill...

Case Studies, Dams & Desiltation

Coal Burning Power Plant Uses Ellicott® Dredge to Produce Four Beneficial-Use Materials

“The most cost effective piece of equipment ever brought onto this property.” – Mark Shea, Assistant Supervisor of Waste Treatment In an unusual feat for a hydraulic dredge, a Series 370 Ellicott® “DRAGON®” cutterhead dredge excavated four different materials from two power plant settling ponds: fly ash, bottom ash, lime, and lime mixed with fly...

Case Studies, Ports, Harbors & Waterways

Dredging Rockhold Creek’s Charybdis/Annapolis, MD – Marina Dredged with Ellicott® Series 370 Dredge

Source: Excerpted from Bay Weekly On-Line Publication Deale is the biggest Western Shore port of call between Annapolis and Solomons. But to get to its protected waters, boaters have had to pass Scylla and Charybdis. The modern-day incarnations of those Odyssean monsters have grounded many a boater. Scylla, the rock, is the 900-foot stone jetty...

Case Studies, Ports, Harbors & Waterways

Florida Manatees Appreciate Dredging Spring Clean

Source: Dredging & Port Construction An unusual small dredging project to clean contaminated sediment from a Florida waterway required the contractor to keep a lookout for slow-moving marine mammals. One of the most unique dredging projects ever to take place in Florida created many challenges for its locally-based dredging contractor, Ludlum Construction Company. The project...

Case Studies, Coastal Restoration

Jhelum Conservation Saved Valley From Floods: Govt

Source: Greater Kashmir by Arif Shafi Wani ‘Sustained Dredging Has Increased River’s Outflow Capacity’ After more than 50 years, the original Ellicott dredge for the Jhelum conservation dredge operates along side a current model. Srinagar, Sep 16: An ambitious project to salvage Kashmir’s lifeline river Jhelum has started to yield positive results with the Jammu...