SRP now has a new tool for cleaning the dam: a state-of-the-art dredge to suck up the piles of sand. The dredge acts like a pool cleaner, stirring up the underwater sediment before vacuuming it to ...

COCOA BEACH — An 85-foot dredge sweeps along the bottom of the 200 channel in Cocoa Beach like a giant vacuum, sucking up ... out to the Indian River. A pipe 12 inches in diameter, about ...

His team found that creating a near vacuum in the pipe would allow speeds of up to 930 km/h (580mph) - twice as fast as in an air filled tube. The results were enough for the team to propose a ...

The old dredge, installed in 1954, could pull out about 200 tons of material in a week. The new one can vacuum up 8,000 tons in a week and operates with electric power instead of diesel fuel.