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  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District Resumes Maintenance Dredging of Fire Island Inlet and Shores Westerly to Jones Inlet, NY

    FIRE ISLAND, NY – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York District, has announced the commencement of essential 2024-2025 maintenance dredging operations for the Fire Island Inlet and Shores Westerly to Jones Inlet, New York Beach Erosion Control and Navigation Project (Project). This critical work, awarded to Norfolk Dredging Company for $36,978,060, will begin on November 19, 2024, and is expected to continue until mid-March 2025.

  • MKARNS Nav Notice No. SWL 23-68 UPDATE: White River Entrance Channel

    Dredging operations are progressing downstream of Montgomery Point Lock & Dam (NM 0.5). The Dredge Sandpiper is currently dredging in the downstream approach to the lock with plans to continue in this area until the morning of Thursday, October 26, 2023.

  • Maintenance dredging contract award: South Atlantic Division Regional Harbor Dredging Contract

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Wilmington District awarded a $23.9 million contract to Manson Construction Company on September 15, 2023, for the maintenance dredging of the Savannah Harbor, Georgia; the Brunswick Harbor, Georgia; and the Wilmington Harbor, North Carolina.

  • Harlan County Lake boater access

    Due to lake levels and sedimentation, Harlan County Lake Project’s boat access to Hunter Cove remains closed with the possibility of Methodist and Gremlin Coves closing at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District project. The project’s dredge is currently inoperable, and repair costs exceed routine operation and maintenance funding. The dredge will be removed from the lake in the coming weeks.

  • Memphis District's Dredge Hurley returns home ending most productive, longest season on record

    The Memphis District's Dredge Hurley returned to its home port, Ensley Engineer Yard, in Memphis Harbor, on Jan. 13, 2023, after finishing a record-breaking 273-day season, which began Apr. 26, 2022. In eight and a half months, the 36-person crew dredged 14.5 million cubic yards of sediment, which is the most the Dredge Hurley has ever removed in a single season.

  • Memphis District's Dredge Hurley returns home ending most productive, longest season on record

    The Memphis District’s Dredge Hurley returned to its home port, Ensley Engineer Yard in Memphis Harbor on Jan. 13, 2023, after finishing a record-breaking 273-day season, which began Apr. 26, 2022. In those eight and a half months, the 36-person crew dredged 14.5 million cubic yards of material, which is the most the Dredge Hurley has ever removed in a single season.

  • Army Corps to begin two-month dredging operations at Everett Harbor, Snohomish River, December 18

    Army Corps will begin maintenance dredging operations on the lower settling basin of Everett Harbor and Snohomish River Dec. 18, 2022. Operations will run 24/7 and are expected to be completed by Feb 14, 2023.

  • Keeping the river open for business, dredging contract awarded

    The Memphis District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for keeping the Mississippi River open for commercial navigation year-round. One way the district does this is through contract dredging, which keeps the river channel at a depth that allows the river barge industry to dependably transport goods up and down the river. Ensuring the district delivers on this charge, the Memphis District recently awarded a contract in the amount of $7,335,450 to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, LLC for the rental of a 24-inch hydraulic cutterhead dredge, discharge pipe, and attendant plant. The contract was awarded June 2, 2022, with an anticipated completion date of Feb. 28, 2023.

  • Completed Below Island 9 Project to benefit navigation industry, public

    Congratulations to the Memphis District Below Island 9 Project Delivery Team for achieving total project completion on May 6, 2022. The project area, located in Lake County, Tennessee, was identified as a low water problem spot by local partners in the navigation industry. This area has been dredged by the Memphis District’s Dredge Hurley in 2020 and 2021, yet the problem spot persisted. To come up with a long term solve, a project delivery team came together to complete a dike construction project.

  • Corps, sponsor ports host open houses on 20-year dredged material placement plan

    Army planners and Columbia River sponsor ports are hosting five virtual information sessions April 26-28 to update the public on their 20-year plan for managing dredged material from the Lower Columbia River.