Posts for tag "dredging"
Expanding the Port Everglades: Real-Time Monitoring of Water Quality Conditions from Planned Dredging Operation
The Port Everglades in Broward County, Florida, serves large trade vessels and cruiseliners and incoming and outgoing recreational boaters. However, as cargo ships become larger, the port must expand. A dredging project led by the US Army...
- Posted April 21, 2025
Eyes on Ohio Waters: Water Quality Monitoring in the Huntington District
The world of water quality monitoring is vast and diverse, with environmental professionals working in the field in a variety of environments and applications. From watershed monitoring to source water management, a career in water quality provides...
- Posted August 12, 2024
Environmental Dredging and Remedial Construction
Dredging has become increasingly more important as pollutants impact wildlife and communities living near and far from water.
- Posted October 3, 2022
Tracking Discharge From A Confined Disposal Facility
Tetra Tech engineers use a cellular data logger and YSI EXO2 in tracking discharge from a confined disposal facility during a New Jersey dredging project.
- Posted August 29, 2016
Hudson River Dredging Project Nears End
A five-year project to dredge the Hudson River is nearing completion, according to National Public Radio. Its aim has been to remove two-thirds of the PCBs dumped in the river prior to the 1970s by General Electric....
- Posted June 12, 2015
New dredging site turbidity monitoring guide available from Fondriest Environmental
Fondriest Environmental, our faithful publisher here at the Environmental Monitor, has released a guide to turbidity monitoring at dredging sites. The guide is available as a PDF document or in a web format on Fondriest’s online Fundamentals...
- Posted November 13, 2014
Sensors watch water quality near Folsom Dam spillway construction
An engineering firm's novel water quality monitoring strategy is keeping the a California flood protection construction project on schedule while protecting the environment.
- Posted December 18, 2013
Dredging underway in $80 million Grand Calumet River cleanup
Dredging is underway on the East Branch of the Grand Calumet River as part of an $80 million effort to remove contaminated sediment and restore habitat.
- Posted August 2, 2013
Dredging found to reduce fish biodiversity
Researchers at Penn State University find that dredging projects may reduce fish diversity, according to a release. Dredging is usually undertaken to remove detrimental sediment from a waterway. The investigators looked at 15 sites along the Allegheny...
- Posted June 21, 2013
