VENTURA — For most of 2010, heavy equipment has been operating in Ventura Harbor to improve the integrity of the detached breakwater at the harbor’s entrance… [mappress] Source:thelog,February 18,2010
SAN DIEGO — Large waves from a major mid-January storm apparently damaged the southern tip of Mission Bay Jetty. [mappress] Source:thelog,February 18,2010;
Dhaka, Feb 18 — Water resources minister Ramesh Chandra Sen brushed off a common allegation on Thursday that India’s Farakka Barrage causes droughts and floods in Bangladesh, with the backdrop of renewed Bangla-Indo ties. [mappress] Source:bdnews24,February 18,2010;
New Jersey and Delaware have parted ways in a legal battle over a plan to deepen the Delaware River’s main channel. New Jersey officials this week formally supported an environmental coalition’s court challenge… [mappress] Source:dailyrecord,February 18,2010;
Local German authorities have completed the deepening of a 23.7km stretch of the northern Peene River to allow bigger ships to reach Wolgast. [mappress] Source: Maritime Journal, February 18, 2010;
ONE of the largest dredging operations the world has ever seen will begin in the Thames Estuary on Monday, March 8. [mappress] Source: Yellow Advertiser, February 18, 2010
Dubai World is expected to hold onto its global port terminals business despite the group labouring under massive debts. [mappress] Source: TradeWinds, February 18, 2010;
Equipped with a hard hat and a neon orange vest, Ed Foxworth is used to criss-crossing the country to work on beach renourishment projects. But as a skilled laborer from Wilmington and a homeowner in Monkey Junction, he lept at the opportunity to work on Wrightsville Beach, the closest he’s worked t
The cleanup of coal ash from the Emory River in East Tennessee has been “remarkable” with more than 70 percent removed from the waterway since the spill at TVA’s Kingston coal-fired plant, a state environment official told lawmakers Tuesday. [mappress] Source: Tennessean, February 17, 2010
ALBANY, NY (02/17/2010) The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today submitted its comments and recommendations to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the first phase of the dredging of the Upper Hudson River to… [mappress] Source:readmedia,February 17,2010;
Many harbours in tide-dominated areas silt up as a consequence of asymmetric tides. To understand the process of harbour sedimentation at tidal rivers, it is important to know the amount of transport of suspended sediment. In a small and shallow harbour along a tidal river, simultaneous ADC, OBS, CT
NEW DELHI: The government has removed cap on the number of players who can participate in financial bidding for port expansion projects under public private partnership (PPP) to minimise litigations and get better returns. [mappress] Source:,February 17,2010;
It is very unfortunate that rather than address the clear-enough allegations of fraud and siphoning of public fund belonging to Imo people, the state governor, Ikeddi Ohakim, who has come to be known as IkedinnaKoboko chose to flog the daylight out of a journalist, Ikeena Iwuoha who against all odds
NEW ORLEANS — Port officials from Savannah, Ga., to Mobile, Ala., to Long Beach are moving full steam ahead to expand and modernize their ports. [mappress] Source: USA Today, February 17, 2010
