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.
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 ...
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 ...
Some River Watch residents and conservationists are concerned about a dredging project. The conservation area is supposed to be protected in perpetuity. The Florida Department of Environmental ...
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 dredging project is now about 85 percent complete, said the PRPA’s Brennan. What remains to be done is an 11-mile stretch of the river from Chester to a point north of Wilmington, and the ...
Dredging the Vermilion River would do little to reduce flooding in Lafayette Parish and would do little harm to buildings downstream, a study by the Louisiana Watershed Flood Center at the University ...
The flames from the smokestacks and blast furnaces at the ArcelorMittal steel plant may have to be extinguished unless cargo ships loaded with iron ore pellets can reach the plant via the Cuyahoga ...
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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 ...
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.