In New York, the Departments of Citywide Administrative Services, Transportation, and Environmental Protection and NYC Parks have started testing the use of renewable diesel in vessels. The barge contract will enable the transition to long-term and large-scale renewable diesel use for city vessels. The famous Staten Island Ferry and other NYC harbor vessels are being… Read More
The Captiva Erosion Prevention District will hold a public hearing Monday on a tentative apportionment for a beach renourishment project set to start this summer. The estimated $26.67 million project cost will be paid, partly, through special assessments imposed on the properties that benefit. The project consists of placing some 800,000 cubic yards of beach fill along 4.85… Read More
The low, rock-covered berm juts like a crooked finger into the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River. It doesn’t look like much now. When finished, though, this and other marine construction work under way in South Baltimore will become 10 acres of wetlands in a city desperately short of natural shoreline. Roughly three quarters of… Read More
A NOAA-funded project on the Upper Coonamessett River in Falmouth, Massachusetts, will remove fish passage barriers and restore wetlands on a former cranberry bog. This work complements earlier NOAA-funded work on the lower part of the river. Each autumn, a familiar sight returns to Cape Cod—acres of ruby red cranberries. They rise to the surface… Read More
The Fraser River Estuary is one of the most ecologically significant places in British Columbia, containing intertidal marsh and mudflat habitats that support Pacific salmon, migratory birds, and many other species. However, over a century of development has reduced these habitats to an estimated 70 per cent of their historical extent. Remaining habitats face several… Read More
