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...Continue Reading
Source: Construction Equipment News In recent years, geotextile tube technology has experienced growth, success, and acceptance. Several successful and highly visible projects have solidified the geotextile tube methodology as viable. One such project was a 1995 sand dune reconstruction project in Atlantic City, NJ using a Mud Cat™ type auger dredge. Many experts would agree...Continue Reading
The Initial Project At one time, over 4 million gallons (1,514 million liters) of toxic semi-treated sewage flowed into Palm Bay Florida’s Turkey Creek. As a result, Turkey Creek contained extremely high levels of harmful toxins and nutrients. During the spring of 2017, the team from Gator Dredging spent most of their time focused on...Continue Reading
DNREC’s Divisions of Watershed Stewardship and Fish & Wildlife have announced plans for a cooperative dredging project on the Little River near Dover, from the Route 9/Bayside Drive bridge in Little Creek east into the Delaware Bay. Dredging is scheduled to begin in the second week of this month. Southwind Construction of Evansville, Ind., was...Continue Reading
The Lake Hermitage Marsh Creation – NRDA Early Restoration Project involves the creation of marsh within a project footprint known as the “Lake Hermitage Marsh Creation Project” developed for and funded through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Program. This project substitutes approximately 104 acres of created brackish marsh for approximately 5-6...Continue Reading
Buenaventura Bay, Colombia Source: World Dredging Mining & Construction Introduction One of the first geotextile tube applications in Colombia was for construction of confined disposal area islands that will be used for containment and dewatering of fine-grained maintenance dredged materials. The project is located on the San Antonio Inlet, Buenaventura, Colombia. The dredged material containment area...Continue Reading
August 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The most maneuverable dredge ever built. New 8-inch (203 mm) discharge, electric swinging ladder dredge (SLD) for tailings reclamation and pond maintenance with three (3) traveling spud carriages, using no cables. Ellicott® International, a world leader in the manufacture of environmental dredges, announces a new type of dredge which actually...Continue Reading
Source: Jim Gordon Clearwater News & Bulletins The completion of a PCB dredging project along Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, NY, has demonstrated that PCBs can be safely dredged from the Hudson River. Along the Lake Champlain shoreline waterfront homes were undisturbed, swimming beaches and motels stayed open during the three-year process, and former skeptics of...Continue Reading
Source: by March A. Torre – CE News for The Business Of Civil Engineering Large tubes filled with dredged material have been used in a variety of coastal and inland projects. The tubes, manufactured of high strength polyester or polypropylene geotextile, are hydraulically filled with a dredge, such as an Ellicott® Series 370 or larger...Continue Reading
16 March 1999 Source: Eric Staats, Naples Daily News Crews from Ludlum Construction Company are scheduled to start pumping sand out of Clam Pass today as part of the effort to restore a dying mangrove forest in northern Collier County, the director of the country division overseeing the project said Monday. The restoration plan is aimed at...Continue Reading
