Are you ticklish? I don’t mean the tendency to squeal, wriggle and scream when someone touches the bottom of your feet. I mean the hunched up feeling when some job you are doing has little…
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LADWP Vault Removal
For Pacific Maritime Group, as with other marine construction firms, “Infrastructure Week” is not a joke; it is this week, last week and weeks to come. Infrastructure is a catch-all for roads, water, electricity, bridges,…
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Cleanup at Laguna Beach
Recently Pacific Maritime Group helped clean up a diesel fuel spill at Laguna Beach, Orange County. This part of the California coast is rugged, known for its surf and is indescribably beautiful. Unfortunately, an accidental…
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Hydraulic vs Mechanical Dredging
Hey, buddy, need a dredge? Dredging is the removal of material from within or near to a body of water. A marina may require dredging to maintain water depth for boats, or a port may…
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PDC Rocks!
In construction we have names for rocks of different sizes: pea gravel, 1” rock, 4” minus, 12”minus, and up to A-16 . The name A-4 designates anchor stone where each boulder weighs from one to…
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Pops Fireworks
The Summer of 2021 ushered in a new era of music and culture in San Diego. The Rady Shell at Jacob’s Park in San Diego is the iconic new waterfront live performance venue brought to…
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Buoy Oh Boy!
Recently I was taking a hearing test and the audiologist instructed me to put the earphone marked with red over my right ear. “Red right returning,” she said, “though I don’t know what that means.”…
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PDC in Newport Beach
Pacific Dredge and Construction has completed a multi-faceted project in Newport Beach, California improving the channel and east jetty. The intent of the jetty repair was to make it safer for the public, and dredging…
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Hollywood in Long Beach
If you work around Los Angeles you quickly learn that it prides itself as a movie town. When locals say they are in The Business, they mean the productions of movies, television shows, and advertisements….
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Carpenter Duo
A vessel is by some definitions a craft for travelling on water. Our Fleet is comprised of a number of vessels that travel on water, but each is unique in its design and purpose. A…
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