The dredge acts like a pool cleaner, stirring up the underwater sediment before vacuuming it to the surface. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

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.

Dredging Supply Company's Marlin Class Deep Mining dredge was designed to meet the needs of deep mining deposits as an efficient tool to excavate materials. The Marlin's dredging depths can exceed ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) revealed the name of the new medium-class hopper dredge that's being built for its ...

A dredging company has completed construction of an underwater sill across the bottom of the Mississippi River at Myrtle Grove to block saltwater from the Gulf of ...

The creeks are located near downtown, with Big Fishweir Creek entering the St. Johns River just north of the Ortega River.

USACE is racing to build a 1,500-foot-wide, 35-foot-tall underwater levee to prevent saltwater from creeping further up the river, where it could contaminate drinking water.

Dredging crews estimate they will move 1.2 million cubic yards of sand from Channel Islands Harbor to Hueneme Beach by the end of the month.

It's an old problem. City officials had begun looking for money to start planning to dredge the creek in 1998 and the Corps had picked up the question by the 2000s, drafting a series of plans that ...