Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Wed September 16, 2020
USACE Begins $1B Soo Lock Project
Iron ore-carrying vessels don't do rapids, particularly when heading upstream. To get around them, structures called "locks" are built — sort of stairs for boats. Vessels float into one end, entry gates are closed and the level of water inside the lock is raised or lowered to match the level outside the gates at the other end....
Brian Fraley - Thu September 03, 2020
Great Lakes Dredging Sends Sediment Flying with the Ditch Doctor
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company's Rivers and Lakes Division was faced with sediment-filled ditches and pockets of connecting standing water on a large dredging project in Argenta, Ill. The contractor wanted to consider a new and more efficient approach than the traditional bucket....
Gradall - Wed August 26, 2020
Telestick Attachment Extends Reach of Gradual Telescoping Boom
Gradall extends the productivity of Series V excavators with the Telestick attachment, allowing for a boom reach to as much as 50 ft. Equipped with ditching, grading and dredging buckets as well as a grapple, the Telestick is ideal for cleaning canals, grading and shaping the edges of drainage ditches, cleaning out culverts and removing debris after severe storms and flooding....
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Tue August 18, 2020
Army Corps of Engineers Awards Contract to Dredge Maumee Bay
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has awarded a $2.1 million contract to Ryba Marine and Construction to conduct dredging of the federal navigation channel in Maumee Bay, located along Lake Erie in Toledo Harbor, in the city of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio....
Sennebogen - Thu July 02, 2020
Sennebogen Material Handlers Keep Dredging Operations on Solid Footing At Great Lakes Dock & Material
You need to be well grounded any time you start swinging tons of material at the end of a long boom. That need is even more true when you're working on a floating platform. No one understands that better than the engineering team at Great Lakes Dock & Material LLC (GLDM), one of the leading dredging and marine construction contractors on the Great Lakes....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu July 02, 2020
OHM Completes Chatham Harbor Channel Dredging
Chatham, Mass.-based Outermost Harbor Marine (OHM) essentially self-performed a nearly $500,000 dredging operation to open a channel at its marina in Cape Cod's Chatham Harbor, a project that started on Jan....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu January 09, 2020
After 18-Month Pause, Dredging Resumes at Port of Savannah
Dredging to deepen the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah has resumed after an 18-month pause, Col. Daniel Hibner of the Army Corps of Engineers recently announced as the second half of the $973 million expansion has started to get under way....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu December 26, 2019
USACE Keeps Indiana Harbor, Canal Clean
Monitoring efforts are under way following completion of this season's dredging operations at Indiana Harbor and Canal (IHC) in East Chicago, Ind. It is one of the most polluted waterways in the Great Lakes area....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu August 22, 2019
Crews Executing Army Corps Contract to Renourish S.C. Beaches
In addition to causing serious damage to many communities in the Carolinas, Hurricanes Matthew (2016), Irma (2017) and Florence (2018) were responsible for considerable destruction to the beaches in several communities throughout South Carolina that rely on local, regional and national tourism....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 27, 2019
$973 Million Savannah Harbor Expansion On Time and Budget
Started in January 2015, the $973 million Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) is on time and budget with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers overseeing the initiative that is deepening the federally-owned channel from 42 to 47 ft....
