Sentences with phrase «dredging channels»
Jervoise Bay preparations involve dredging channels, reclaiming land and building breakwaters akin to those at neighbouring Henderson.
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Because of PCBs in the canal, the Canal Corp. hasn't dredged the channel since 1980.
A dredged channel in the San Joaquin River stretches nearly 80 miles to the San Francisco Bay, contributing to shipping in the economy.
I would tend to have more faith in the Army Corps of Engineers since they have to dredge the channels if water levels are too low for bulk carriers.
A dredged channel in the San Joaquin River stretches nearly 80 miles to the San Francisco Bay, contributing to shipping in the economy.
Not exact matches
• Kinder Morgan plans to dredge Second Narrows channel to allow larger Suezmax tankers that can carry 1 million barrels of crude — four times as much as spilled from the Exxon Valdez.
It requires, in the end, a grand work of the Holy Spirit to dredge from the dogged channels of our minds the waste quietly expelled for decades into the flowing stream by those very shore establishments whose useful products have made us what we are.
The dredging will restore the channel between the island and Cotuit which has filled in and has required dredging several times previously since the 1930s.
Adding additional «external» sand to the project through off - shore mining or from mainland sources would increase the need to dredge Cotuit channel to keep it from closing.
No other channels in the region are available for dredging having been used in previous projects to strengthen the island.
The Suffolk County Legislature voted unanimously to approve funding to dredge the South Ferry channel connecting Shelter Island with North Haven with work expected to be done between October 1 and January.
Though dredging work will resume on Saturday, scientists say environmental studies underestimated the number and kinds of corals living near the channel.
The team dredged sediment downstream from Rome in the harbor basin at Portus, a maritime port of imperial Rome, and from a channel connecting the port to the Tiber River.
MIAMI (Reuters)- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday denied a request from researchers seeking more time to save an underwater field of coral in a Miami channel where dredging is set to begin this weekend.
In a new study, UC Santa Barbara marine biologists applied existing technology in a novel way to monitor animals coming into and going out of a lagoon via a deep channel dredged during World War II.
One answer is dredgings from harbours and navigation channels, which are currently mostly dumped out to sea, where they may damage the marine environment.
The narrow offshore continental shelf combines with the deep - dredged ship channel to help maintain safe oxygen levels during summertime wind changes and reduced rainfall that curtails freshwater discharge from the Coos River, says Dave Sutherland, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences.
A University of Oregon study found that the physical makeup of the estuary, including the deep - dredged ship channel, has long protected the area from hypoxia.
«Oregon's Coos Bay historically has avoided serious hypoxic conditions: Narrow offshore shelf, a dredged ship channel and fresh river water combine to keep the bay flushed, but that could change as the climate warms.»
The sandbar was used to dump materials from dredging of San Diego Bay for US Navy requirements in World War II which required a deepening of the harbor channel, further building it up.
We now have a newly dredged deep channel into White Sound and The Green Turtle Club Marina!
Jettys were built and then a dredge chewed a channel, allowing seawater to flood the harbor.
Especially when considering the savings in disposal (repositioning) navigation channel dredge spoils....
The dredging of a new deeper shipping channel on the St Mary's River near Sault Ste Marie has also reputedly increased the amount of water leaving the lake which would also impact lake levels.
Witness: the pipeline dredging of shipping channels in the Mississippi River and placement of the associated dredge spoils, on long 1:6 intertidal slopes just seaward of eroded shorelines.
Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.
Its an effort that would require shipping coal by rail to the coast, and dredging and dumping waste in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage site in order to expand ports and channels for shipping the coal to India.
Specifically, we should stop squandering the navigation channel dredge spoils that the central government is, at some considerable expense, parking in a series of ill conceived (Chesapeake Bay watershed) USACE vertical dredge spoil sites.
At present, the users (who are the vast majority of our citizenry) have smacked down the scientists and beach replenishment and channel dredging continues.
Simply by depositing navigation channel dredge spoils on a long intertidal slope just seaward of certain bulkheads and eroded shorelines nearby, beautiful, vibrant fringe marshes could be reestablished in one short year.
And through the use of hydraulic rotary cutter head pipeline dredges and Rolligon amphibious ditcher - spreaders, use, instead, these navigation channel dredge spoils to reconstruct the fringe marshes and tidal creeks of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
The expansion doubled the waterway's capacity by deepening both entrances, dredging existing channels, adding a new Pacific access channel, as well as a third set of locks (a lane for larger ships), allowing the passage of vessels up to 13,000 / 14,000 TEUs3 versus 5,000 TEUs for pre-expansion cargo ships.