Sentence examples for deepening projects from inspiring English sources

Deepening projects in New York Harbor, besides allowing larger ships, are also oriented toward protecting the harbor and estuaries.

The 125-acre site was once flat, but it's now rolling thanks to four million cubic yards of soil dredged from the harbor during shipping channel deepening projects.

Governor Rendell accused the New Jersey side of blocking the deepening project to protect the ports in Newark and Elizabeth.

Manuel Stamatakis, chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority, said thousands of port-related jobs depended on the deepening project.

Savannah is preparing to move forward with a $652 million deepening project, while the South Carolina Legislature has committed $300 million to dredging for Charleston.

Without the $625 million deepening project, a breed of huge ships loaded with foreign-made iPods, furniture and other goods that will soon be able to traverse a newly widened Panama Canal will head elsewhere.

"Every day, 40,000 people get up and go to work because the Columbia River is an international seaport, and the deepening project is a very important part of retaining that".

Just as maps illustrate the deepening project as a line down the center of the river, the proposal has divided the Pennsylvania and New Jersey members of the Delaware River Port Authority, the two-state agency that is the local sponsor of the project -- its cost has been estimated as high as $500 million -- and must approve it.

He added that the project would help to improve the appearance of sections of the Meadowlands that are clearly visible from the western spur of the New Jersey Turnpike and would help to reduce ocean pollution by providing an upland site for the disposal of mud dredged from New York harbor as part of the deepening project.

Unless they are structurally reinforced prior to the dredging, the waterfront components (i.e. wharves and embankments) will be weakened by the berth deepening project.

The authority is faced with a huge channel-deepening project that is scheduled for completion in 2009 as well as a new generation of deep-water superships.