AgWeb

How Dredging the Mississippi River Could Uncover $461 Million

A complex series of railways, roads, bridges and waterways connects U.S. farmers to the rest of the word, but this system is deteriorating and threatens U.S. agriculture’s leading global position.
Yahoo

Nonstop dredging kept the Mississippi River open this year, but moving mountains of sand creates its own problems

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Workers Dredging the Savannah River Stumbled Upon 19 Cannons That Had Been Underwater Since the Revolutionary War

The centuries-old artifacts emerged from the riverbed between 2021 and 2022. Experts spent several years carefully restoring ...

Lake Lanier Association warns river dredging project could lower lake levels

The group says such additional commercial barge navigation in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system would require ...
Yahoo

Narrow River needs dredging, Narragansett needs sand – can each solve the other’s problem?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NARRAGANSETT – On a mild afternoon recently, a small crew boarded a pontoon boat at the Mettatuxet Yacht Club and set off to ...
WHYY

The Schuylkill River dredging project — in need of a new contractor — is at a standstill

Docks along boathouse row were removed to allow dredging to deepen the Schuylkill River. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Long-planned dredging to deepen the Schuylkill River from Strawberry Mansion Bridge to ...
Times Union

Commentary: PCB dredging has not helped the Hudson River. Here's why.

The choice of dredging method removed only a fraction of the contaminants, and the EPA's monitoring of progress has been insufficient. Dredgers at work in the Hudson River near Fort Edward on July 26, ...
Managing Intellectual Property

Dredging technology: global patent trends

Tariq Shajahan and Willem Niesing of NLO analyse dredging-related patent filings in key jurisdictions and highlight ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Revolutionary War cannons found in river tell key moment in Georgia history

Cannons believed from British ships sunk during the 1779 Siege of Savannah are now on exhibit. They played a crucial part in ...
Star Tribune

Dredging kept the Mississippi River open this year but creates its own problems

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.