Month: June 2019

Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, LLC (GLDD) is working as a subcontractor with Western Contracting Corporation to provide fill for an emergency sand berm to close a levee breach at river mile 572 on the Missouri River.  GLDD’s Hydraulic Cutter Suction Dredge ‘Iowa’ is dredging approximately 350,000 cubic yards of river sands from a borrow source in the Missouri River and pumping along 7,000-ft of floating and shore…

The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) Notifies Congress that the Congressional Research Service’s (CRS’s) Latest Report on Dredging is Fatally Flawed

“Notably, the author of this CRS report did not contact a single dredging company in the United States in the formulation of this report,” said William P. Doyle, CEO & Executive Director of the Dredging Contractors of America.  Mr. Doyle continued, “I don’t like having to publish…

Thursday, June 6, 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard announced the establishment of an industry-led Maritime Security Sector Coordinating Council (SCC).  The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) is a charter member.

Featured image above:  DCA members Manson Construction and Kiewit working on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Marine Foundations Removal Project.  Photo credit: Associated General Contractors of America.

Sector Coordinating Councils (SCCs) are self-organized and self-governed councils that enable…