Sep. 28—Scattered across the riverfront, the mossy, aging and oftentimes rotten timber pilings serve as both a symbol of Astoria's history and a reminder of the challenges of operating over the water.

Timber pilings also are competing with other higher-margin products that require large trees, such as utility poles and bridge trusses, said Kevin Ragon, executive director of Southern Pressure ...

This paper presents the experimental results of wave transformation between a submerged permeable breakwater and a seawall including variations of the wave profile, the piling-up of water and the wave ...

Nassau Harbour's deteriorating breakwaters should be "top of the pile" in the Government's priorities, a port chief argued yesterday, given the threat to 90 per cent of the city's imports. Michael ...