SEATTLE – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) plans to conduct Grays Harbor maintenance dredging in the Outer Harbor beginning as early as April 8, with USACE hopper dredge vessels Yaquina and Essayons and a contracted hopper dredge. The Yaquina is expected to start dredging in the outer harbor of Grays Harbor as early as… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $30 million contract to Astoria, Oregon-based Big River Construction to conduct major maintenance on the North Jetty near Ocean Shores. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials have awarded a $30 million contract to Astoria, Oregon-based Big River Construction to conduct major maintenance on the North Jetty… Read More
By Justin Breckenridge FORT PIERCE — A long-awaited beach renourishment project is expected to begin this month along South Hutchinson Island after weeks of emergency work to stabilize severe erosion near Fort Pierce Inlet. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District has hired Manson Construction to place roughly 400,000 cubic yards of sand along… Read More
By Joe Irizarry DNREC will resume pumping sand at the Indian River Inlet beach. DNREC recently signed a contract with First State Crane Service to operate the Indian River Inlet Sand Bypass System. “This is a way that we are able to basically re-nourish the northern beach and kind of keep helping that movement go… Read More
MAINE, USA — Ten wetland restoration projects will receive $4.6 million from the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program, including funding for a project in Acadia National Park to improve the park’s largest freshwater wetland, which has seen extensive flooding in recent years, and money to remove dams on the Royal River in Yarmouth and Nezinscot… Read More
