Louisiana’s Governor John Bel Edwards yesterday unveiled the newly-completed restoration of the Caminada Headlands, a 13-mile stretch of beach and dune running from the Belle Pass outlet of Bayou Lafourche eastward to Caminada Pass at the end of Elmer’s Island.
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Louisiana relies on dredging for navigation and land restoration. When maritime stakeholders think about dredging, they typically first conjure up visions of harbor deepening projects to accommodate those giant, post-Panamax boxships. Conversely, inland players hope for maintenance dredging in the
Read more →DHI Group, an independent research and consultancy organization, has released a video about engineering the coast by understanding its nature, named ‘Coastal Erosion and Protection’. “Coastal erosion and protection is an ongoing challenge. Information about wind, waves, depth conditions and
Read more →Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has just published its latest paper named “Ten Steps to Efficiency in Flood and Coastal Risk Management”. The paper outlines ten points that could enable commissioning authorities, government and the infrastructure industry to achieve
Read more →Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) have announced the completion of the Caminada Beach and Dune Restoration Project and the reopening of Elmer’s Island Refuge. “Elmer’s Island has never looked better,”
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Emergency beach fill on Longboat Key using Longboat pass sand trap. Source: Town of Longboat Key What's going on? Longboat Key, as many other South Florida beach communities, is consistently losing their beach to tidal cycles, currents, waves and weather. Read more →
Ellicott® International was awarded a contract by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd. of Korea for a state-of-the-art diesel-electric cutter suction dredger. The Ellicott® Series 16,000 "SUPER-DRAGON®" will be built at Daewoo's Okpo yard. Daewoo Corporation will be the owner andRead more →
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock uses Ellicott® dredge "Florida" to pump 50 million cubic yards of land fill. Source: World Dredging Mining & Construction & International Dredging Review On August 18, 1997, the Port of Los Angeles and the U.S. Army Corps of EngineersRead more →
Source: Dredging Today Florida based dredging and marine contractor Piedroba Marine Construction (PMC) announced today the succesfull completion of its portion of the Manatee Pocket Dredging Project. PMC was hired by Dickerson of Florida earlier this year to dredge severalRead more →
Typical Ellicott® MC-915 Auger Dredge Beach Erosion Typical Series 370 Ellicott® Dredge Geotubes® being filled Geotextile Tube Cross Section Source: Construction Equipment News In recent years, geotextile tube technology has experienced growth, success, and acceptance. Several successful and highly visibleRead more →