Author: William P Doyle

Update – 20 December 2019:  President Donald J. Trump signs spending bills, funding all federal agencies and programs for fiscal year 2020.

Update – 19 December 2019:  Senate votes 71 – 23 on H.R. 1865.  The 8 spending bills pass including the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies.

17 December 2019 – On target and on time, this Congress keeps its eye on the ball and delivers.  This afternoon, the U.S….

The owners and chief executive officers of the hopper owning and specialized dust pan companies met this week in Washington, DC for three days of meetings.  The sessions included a roundtable discussion with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chief of Engineers, Lt. General Todd Semonite and Major General Scott Spellmon, Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations.   Meetings also included  a Water Resources Development U.S. Army Corps of…

The U.S.-Flag dredging industry commemorates the 78^th anniversary of the Japanese air raid on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor highlighting the critical need for a robust American shipbuilding capacity to ensure for the preparedness of the nation’s navy bases.

“On this day, December 7, 2019, we remember our brothers and sisters of the U.S Merchant Marine look to the past sacrifices made by 2,403 U.S. servicemen who…

William G. Gahagan, P.E. passed away on November 14, 2019.  Bill was one month shy of his 90th birthday.  He was born in 1929, in Brooklyn, NY.  Bill is a graduate of Yale University and the graduate engineering program at Stanford University.    He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the time between graduating from Yale and entering Stanford.

Bill Gahagan was a dedicated lifelong pioneer and leader in…

For Immediate Release

This evening the U.S. House of Representatives passed by a recorded vote the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF), H.R. 2440.  The vote was 296 in favor and 109 opposed.  The voting required a two-thirds super majority of the House in order to pass under “suspension of the rules.”

There were  seventeen (17) bills presented in the House of Representatives today with fifteen (15)…

For Immediate Release

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to consider H.R. 2440, Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund bill on Monday October 28, 2019.  The bill may be presented in the House under “suspension of the rules.”

“We strongly support the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for its intended purpose,” said William P. Doyle, CEO and Executive Director of the Dredging Contractors of…

Texas American pride is driving improvements in Corpus Christi channel deepening in Port Aransas, Texas.  The Cutter Suction Dredge (CSD) Carolina is on the job.

Captain Scott Baumann is the skipper of the CSD Carolina (featured image above).  Captain Baumann explained:  “With this particular dredge (CSD Carolina) we can dredge sand and clay, mud – we can get rocks  and pump the sediment through a series of pipelines all the…

The Chairman and Ranking Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (T&I) and the Chair and Ranking Members of T&I’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation sent a letter to the Library of Congress refuting a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on the American dredging industry as “filled with misleading, slanted and false information.”   The bipartisan group of congressional leaders also condemned…

We have lost an industry giant.  Douglas B. Mackie, Chief Executive Officer of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) from 1995 to 2011, passed away on September 11, 2019.   Doug also served in many leadership roles at the Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) including Association President several times.

GLDD has a long heritage and over its’ 129 year history, certain families and individuals have left their mark. The Mackie’s…

Toady we pause and reflect.  On September 11, 2011 the World changed forever.  In Lower Manhattan half-a-million people were stranded on the island.  The trains stopped running and all roads were closed.  There was only one way out– boats.

• On 9/11, 500,000 people evacuated in 9-hours from Lower Manhattan by ships
• 150 Vessels and 800 American Mariners participated in the Boatlift
• In May of 1940, 339,000 trapped British and…