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Dr. Benjamin Trump, a research social scientist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL), was recently named U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Researcher of the Year. The USACE Researcher of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding scientist or engineer whose work advanced the state of an art in… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected six small businesses to compete for marine construction projects under a $260 million firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday. USACE received 10 bids for the multiple-award task order contract via the internet. According to the award notice posted on SAM.gov, contractors will carry out design-bid-build work within the USACE mission… Read More
Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a groundbreaking for the Caño Martin Peña ecosystem restoration project in Puerto Rico. This project will restore a tidal canal and renourish an ecosystem while revitalizing historically marginalized communities. Projects like Caño Martin Peña demonstrate USACE’s commitment to deliver infrastructure that works for everyone. To further promote… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Chicago, and the Chicago Park District, as partners in the implementation of the authorized Chicago Shoreline Project, are pleased to announce that work is beginning on several new phases of the Chicago Shoreline Project. Since 1996, the partners have collectively invested over $500 million to rehabilitate… Read More
There’s been a slight delay in the start of bayside dredging in Ocean City, but city officials assured that the work will be done long before the boating, swimming and fishing season kicks into high gear. The work, originally estimated to begin in January, is scheduled to begin within days, Ocean City Public Information Officer… Read More
Sea levels in Florida continue to rise and as they do, plans are being made to keep Collier County from that and heavy storm surges. On Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers presented its latest ideas to county commissioners, a multi-billion dollar project in the works for years. “This is an opportunity to go back… Read More
Maintenance Dredging of Lake Worth Inlet • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to mobilize equipment, including the pipeline that will connect to the north end of the Town of Palm Beach, as soon as February 1, 2023; with dredging commencing on or about February 8, 2023. • The contractor assigned to the project… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Puerto Rico Ports Authority announced an agreement today to proceed with dredging in San Juan Bay, Puerto Rico. The project will deepen and widen shipping channels to allow massive liquefied natural gas and long-range oil tankers to import foreign fossil fuels. A lawsuit pending in federal district court challenges the… Read More
Dredging begins Feb. 6 at Dysart’s Great Harbor Marina by Prock Marine Co. and will run through March 23 daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 3,600 cubic yards removed from the dredge site will be hauled to a disposal site at the eastern passage site in Blue Hill Bay. Prock estimates the dredge… Read More
The shipping crisis on the Mississippi River might finally be coming to an end. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the river 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since July, ever since low water levels on the river due to drought started causing shipping backups. The Corps hopes to be… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Chicago, and the Chicago Park District, as partners in the implementation of the authorized Chicago Shoreline Project, are pleased to announce that work is beginning on several new phases of the Chicago Shoreline Project. Since 1996, the partners have collectively invested over $500 million to rehabilitate… Read More
The state Department of Environmental Protection has announced $24.3 million in grants to 14 towns to plant more than 4,000 trees in projects intended to add foliage to urban areas, revitalize marshes and restore forests. “New Jersey will avoid the worst effects of our changing climate not only by reducing emissions of climate pollutants, but… Read More
Dare County’s own dredge, the Miss Katie, arrived in Hatteras village on Thursday, January 26, in order to conduct a maintenance dredging event in Hatteras Inlet’s Connector Channel over the next few days. “The dredge is there, and it’s supposed to start working this morning,” said Dare County Waterways Commission Chairman Steve “Creature” Coulter. “We asked… Read More
A small team consisting of leaders, planners, project managers, environmental scientist from the North Atlantic Division, Norfolk and Jacksonville districts, travelled around with representatives from Collier County, Florida looking at areas impacted by the effects of Hurricane Ian. The team is working with county officials to reinitiate the Collier County Storm Risk Management feasibility study,… Read More
Ocean County will be paying all $7.5 million of the local costs for the upcoming beach replenishment project that will repair beaches from Point Pleasant Beach to Berkeley Township, county officials announced Thursday. The announcement brought a sigh of relief to officials in Toms River, Mantoloking and Bay Head in particular, the towns that had… Read More