Sentence examples for dredging by from inspiring English sources
After another round of dredging by the United States Navy, the Intrepid, which does not have a working engine, was towed away a month later.
In between beautiful stretches, and despite frequent dredging by official boats and volunteers, I can see oil patches, cans, and many plastic bags at the bottom.
Hugo Neuschnitzer East recently got one window reduced by a month, limiting dredging by four rather than five months this year.
What with nitrates flowing down the Mississippi, the leveeing of New Orleans and dredging by the oil and gas industry, my home, even if it escapes the crude, will sink into the gulf.
Shore erosion, sediment deposition and transfer, and other processes, however, including dredging by humans, may significantly alter a lake's bottom topography and thus affect navigation, currents, and ecological factors, such as fish spawning grounds.
Officials with the E.P.A., which is overseeing the dredging by the General Electric Company under the Superfund program, estimate that the project may take 7 to 10 years, rather than the 6 years originally anticipated.
More than 400,000 cubic yards was dumped there again last spring, dredged by the Corps from the Shinnecock Canal and Tiana Bay.
The river, in the state's Panhandle, is dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain a channel nine feet deep for the barges that use it.
A few blocks away, down an alleyway off Nevins Street, a gallery called Proteus Gowanus displays artifacts, art and books associated with the canal, which was dredged by Irish laborers in 1853.
Environmentalists tend to prefer the second solution: replenishing the shore with some of the tons of sand regularly dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure that the waters are deep enough for cargo ships rumbling away from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Natural land loss has been compounded by the thousands of canals dredged by oil and gas companies drilling in the area and levees built along the Mississippi River have stopped the natural process of sediment that would otherwise replenish coastal land.
