NARRAGANSETT – On a mild afternoon recently, a small crew boarded a pontoon boat at the Mettatuxet Yacht Club and set off to survey the Pettaquamscutt River, locally known as the Narrow River. It didn ...

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.

In Simaogang, a small fleet of sand dredgers work from sunrise to sunset, shipping river sand to construction sites around Yunnan. Sand is about as unglamorous a resource possible. But without sand, ...

This map shows the area where sediment dredged when the river is deepened and from later maintenance dredging will be used to build wetlands. The Corps estimate the initial dredging will create ...

The Mississippi River is incredibly low for the second year in a row. This threatens both the country's international supply chain and national drinking water access. Authorities are battling against ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract valued at almost $210 million for the second phase of deepening the St. Johns River, a cost that came in higher than original expectations. When the ...

Dredging the Savannah River is like a box of chocolates, say those who head up the task. You never know what you’re gonna find. How about three cannons that may date to the American Revolution, an ...

The $150 million it would cost to dredge the Vermilion River is too high a price to prevent 175-200 Lafayette Parish homes from flooding, a congressman and Corps of Engineers representative said ...

The regional water board is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over dredge and fill operations along the Los Angeles River in Glendale and the Sepulveda Basin that allegedly violated the Clean ...

CRATER ISLAND, Wis. — There’s a 1.5-million-ton pile of sand in Wisconsin that should be in Louisiana. Instead of flowing through the Mississippi River and splaying across the delta, rebuilding ...