TOMS RIVER -- A small crowd of curious onlookers gathered to see the historic wooden oyster schooner A.J. Meerwald arrive on the Toms River on Wednesday, July 9, where she docked at the end of the ...

Mechanical clamshell dredging of Grays Harbor, Inner Harbor, Washington, will begin July 16, making it safer for local ...

Crews at Clam Pass Beach are moving hundreds of pounds of sand as part of a dredging project aimed at keeping the inlet open. “Oh, I think it’s fantastic.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to use a hybrid-powered clamshell dredge to excavate 2.3 million cubic yards of material from federal navigation channels, ...

Dipper dredges and clamshell dredges, named for the scooping buckets they employ, are the two most common types. (Read more here from US Army Corps of Engineers) Dredging process ...

Collier County has had to dredge Clam Pass several times to maintain water flow. After that initial dredging in 2013, it had to be dredged again in 2014, 2016 and 2018 and most recently in 2024.

Clamshell dredging did not improve the river, but instead, further damaged it. If environmental groups wish to have EPA impose further PCB dredging responsibilities on GE, clamshells should be off ...

The old dredge, installed in 1954, could pull out about 200 tons of material in a week. The new one can vacuum up 8,000 tons in a week and operates with electric power instead of diesel fuel.