Andaman Island Phase 2 Reclamation Targeted for Completion

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  Starts 01/16/2019CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.7 years agoConfirmed against contemporaneous reporting of the reclamation completion ceremony. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the reclamation of 269 hectares from the Indian Ocean".

  Sri Lanka finishes reclaiming 269 hectares of land from the Indian Ocean off Colombo, laying the ground for the Chinese-backed Port City Colombo financial district.

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  Vadhavan Port's First Phase Opens on Maharashtra's Coast

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  Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsUnion shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal is reported as saying the first phase of Vadhavan is "on track to become operational by 2029", a year rather than a fixed day, so the pin takes the last day of 2029.^[1]

  India's first offshore port built on reclaimed land off Vadhavan, with a 20 m draft deep enough for 233,000 DWT container ships, is being built by Vadhavan Port Project Limited, a company of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (74 per cent) and the Maharashtra Maritime Board. The 76,220 crore rupee port broke ground on 30 August 2024 and its first phase is to handle 6.85 million TEUs by 2030.

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  Jakarta Sets September 2026 Groundbreaking for Its Giant Sea Wall

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  Starts 09/30/2026ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCEin 7 daysEstimated: the January target was September 2026, but on 3 September 2026 CNN Indonesia^[2] reported Governor Pramono is "menunggu arahan dari pemerintah pusat" (awaiting the central government's direction) rather than confirming it, and on 20 August he said "Ini kan pemerintah pusat. Kita menunggu saja" when asked if it would go ahead in September.

  Jakarta's government targeted September 2026 to break ground on its 19km stretch of a hybrid concrete-and-mangrove sea wall, part of a revised, roughly 500km national coastal defence plan that has replaced the earlier Garuda-shaped bird design.

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  Polavaram Irrigation Project Targets 2027 Completion

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  Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsDecember 2027 is the official scheduled completion date (Deccan Chronicle^[3], 8 December 2025), with the agencies pushing to finish before the Godavari Pushkaralu in July 2027. Wikipedia's^[2] infobox instead expects July 2029. The pin keeps the official 2027 target its title is about, dated to the last day of that year, but as an estimate that later sources may not bear out.

  India's Polavaram multi-purpose dam on the Godavari river, one of the country's largest irrigation and hydropower projects, is racing toward completion under a Rs 12,157 crore central funding boost.

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  Salt Lake Temple Completes Seismic Base-Isolation Retrofit

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  Starts 06/30/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE85 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Starting Thursday, June 25, construction crews removed over 1,500 bolts connecting 392 plates to the base isolators."

  Crews finished installing a base-isolation system beneath the 19th-century Salt Lake Temple as part of an estimated $2.4 billion project to let the building float free of the ground during a major earthquake.

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  Crane Clean Energy Center Targets 2027 Restart

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  Constellation Energy is working to bring the former Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor back online to supply carbon-free power under a 20-year deal with Microsoft.

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  Port Waratah Begins Shiploader 7.09 Overhaul at Kooragang Terminal

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  Starts 07/01/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoPort Waratah's 6 May 2025 news release states the four-month refurbishment outage on Shiploader 7.09 began in July 2025.^[1]

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  Starts 04/16/2020CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE6.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "For the first time, polar ships have moored at a new £40 million wharf".

  BAM completed a new £40 million, 74-metre steel wharf at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station so the new polar vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough could dock and resupply the base.

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  Tokyo Unveils $109BN Resilience Project

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  Starts 12/15/2022CONFIRMED77% CONFIDENCE3.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "In December 2022, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government unveiled the Tokyo Resilience Project."

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  Starts 07/07/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE78 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "I don't accept the nonsensical argument that was being put up, which is an inferior, smaller wall downstream".

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  Starts 10/15/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE343 days agoStated as a completed event, per independent.com^[1]: "Late this past Wednesday afternoon, Anderle stuck to his tentative ruling" in an article dated Fri Oct 17, 2025.

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