Items Tagged with 'Great Lakes'

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded an $85-million contract to a Black & Veatch-Stantec joint venture to advance the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, a key effort to keep the invasive fish species out of the Great Lakes. Work will support design of a layered system of engineered barriers and deterrent technologies at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam.

Illinois project, part of $1.15B effort to protect Lake Michigan, is among Corps and Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command contracts, also awarded in California, Ohio and Europe.

Despite lawmakers' action, funding levels overall are barely a drop in the bucket and must be used more "strategically" in smaller projects for better preparedness and protection, said one industry expert.

Why is the Justice Dept. stepping into the Line 5 fight now—and what does a looming June shutdown mean for an unfinished Wisconsin reroute?

A $1.2-billion project to build a system that would prevent Asian Carp from entering the Great Lakes has stalled and is under review by the Trump Administration, according to Democratic lawmakers. 

Federal approval moves energy project forward in Wisconsin—while a tribe’s legal fight and water-quality questions linger.  

NORESCO will deliver $100M in upgrades at Detroit’s Water Resource Recovery Facility, adding new pump and reuse systems to boost resiliency under a progressive design-build contract.

Funding deal will push forward two-decade-plus effort to build barriers and take other steps to prevent invasive species migration into the key U.S. shipping and recreation hub.

Remediation will target PCBs, petroleum compounds and heavy metals inone of the most polluted areas of the U.S.

Company dredges spent too much time in dry dock, impacting its financial results in the first half of 2022.