BAI’s 3,000 CY Split-Hull scow THOMAS DESMOND has been chartered by Curtin Maritime since December 2022 working on the Houston Ship Channel Deepening Project for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards have been loaded into the THOMAS DESMOND for shallow water disposal operations relating to the project and the …
Burnham Associates, Inc. has taken delivery of its newest spud barge Capt. T.S.P. Augustine (ex-JMC 151) at its Charlestown, MA base of operations. The 150’55’X9′ barge will utilize a Lima 2400B duty cycle crane with a 18 CY capacity clamshell. Work to bring the barge into service as a clamshell dredge is ongoing, with trial …
Burnham Associates, Inc. was recently hired by the Nantucket Lightship Museum to assist in the undocking of the Nantucket Lightship LV-112 from Fitzgerald’s Shipyard in Everett and maneuvered to her berth in East Boston after undergoing a 7-month drydocking. Despite building winds in the afternoon, Burnham crew successfully launched, towed, and docked the Lightship to …
Burnham Associates has completed the multi-year project of deepening the Plymouth Harbor and federal anchorage in the early spring 2020. Despite an unprecedented series of storms at the start of the second season, BAI’s crews worked tirelessly to complete the remaining areas of the federal anchorage and ensure the entire project was deepened to the …
Burnham Associates, Inc. (BAI) completed their first season of dredging Plymouth Harbor ahead of schedule on February 1, 2019. The initial project schedule projected that during the 2018-2019 season, the entrance channel, extension, and turning basin would be completed with the 2019-2020 season dedicated to dredging the anchorage basin in preparation for the Plymouth 2020 …
During the typically slow summer months of the northeastern no-dredging season, BAI engaged in multiple small projects for state clients, wrapping up a small project for the Steamship Authority, and dredging the wet slips directly adjacent to the City of New Bedford’s newly rebuilt Coal Pocket fishing pier. Approximately 500 Cubic Yards were removed from …
After a successful execution of an emergency dredging project deepening Woods Hole Terminal’s Berth #2, which was completed in 2 weeks as mandated by state environmental limitations, Burnham Associates Inc. has been awarded a subsequent repair project rebuilding a fender pile dolphin in this same berth that was damaged during Winter Storm Riley in March, …
Burnham Associates’ work in Duxbury Harbor alongside Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting did not go unnoticed by local media, Take a few minutes of your day to watch a well thought out explanation of what we do on a typical project! https://youtu.be/V_NM3OCUhSc
Burnham Associates, Inc was contracted by the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Boston to perform lifting operations relating to the upgrade of the 76mm bow gun of the Cutter Seneca. The spud barge TRINITY utilized a 110 ton Link Belt LS308H to perform the operation with support from push boats MANTIS and SCULLY to ensure stable …
As dredging has been progressing smoothly in the small seaside town of Yarmouth, Maine, the efforts of the crews aboard Dredge Samson and tug Aegean Sea has caught attention and appreciation of the local population. Recently, the Portland Press Herald was allowed to spend a day aboard the Dredge Samson learning about the lives of …