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More than ten years have passed since Hurricane Sandy exposed New York City to devastating coastal flooding. Several cost-effective flood megaprojects, including levees and storm surge barriers, have been presented to the NY-NJ region to prevent future billion-dollar disasters, but none have moved forward. Researchers studying climate adaptation have put forward theories about why so… Read More
The Memphis District’s Dredge Hurley returned to its home port, Ensley Engineer Yard, in Memphis Harbor, on Jan. 13, 2023, after finishing a record-breaking 273-day season, which began Apr. 26, 2022. In eight and a half months, the 36-person crew dredged 14.5 million cubic yards of sediment, which is the most the Dredge Hurley has ever removed in… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, received $1.5 million from the states of Illinois and Michigan this week to continue advancing the engineering and design of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project on the upper Illinois Waterway. “The Corps remains committed to this project of National significance in partnership with the States and… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed off on plans to dredge the Hudson River off the shores of Beacon Island, where the Port of Albany is building an offshore wind turbine tower manufacturing plant. The EPA was one of two federal agencies that had expressed concerns with a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging… Read More
Finding success in any career can be challenging. Finding success in one of the most competitive careers in the United States can be even more burdensome, if not downright arduous. Claudinette Purifoy-Fears not only found success as an engineer but was recognized for her contributions to the field. Purifoy-Fears is the most recent recipient of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Memphis District (CEMVM) released a Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Draft Environmental Assessment (DIFR-EA) for the Hatchie-Loosahatchie Mississippi River Ecosystem Restoration Study to the general public, Feb. 10, 2023. The general public, interested parties, and stakeholders are invited to comment on the DIFR-EA. The study seeks to examine… Read More
Nearly 90,000 tons of rock is scheduled to be placed on the face of Tuttle Creek Dam, near Manhattan, Kansas, within the next couple years to repair damages from the 2019 high-water event. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, received funding from both the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, or DRSAA, and… Read More
Kelsey Ciarrocca really believes in working smarter, not harder. You could argue that her philosophy put the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District on the map. The Real Estate Division cartographer was recently named USACE’s “Innovator of the Year” for her pioneering work with real-time data and Smartsheet—a cloud-based program. You could also… Read More
The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works is issuing this notice to update the public on the status of the implementation guidance for the 196 provisions in the Water Resources Development Act of 2022. The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022, a subset (Division H) of the James M…. Read More
In September of 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York District, unveiled its latest vision of how to protect Rockaway and other nearby coastal communities, a $52 billion proposal to build 12 movable sea barriers, which would include Jamacia Bay and the Rockaway Inlet, to protect residents from future storm surge. The… Read More
At a special planning meeting in late January, the Newport Beach City Council received a presentation and reviewed some of the capital improvement projects coming up the pipeline this calendar year. The planned projects include major works such as the dredging of the lower federal Newport Harbor channels, the first phase of which was completed… Read More
Sandwich Town Manager George H. (Bud) Dunham gave the board of selectmen some bad news about sand on Thursday night. For several years, the town has been asking the US Army Corps of Engineers to dump the sand from the Corps’ periodic dredging of the Cape Cod Canal onto Sandwich’s eroding beach. The town also… Read More
The Dare County Board of Commissioners have unanimously approved a resolution to take the first steps toward a dredging project in Avon Harbor that will result in beach nourishment for the Canadian Hole and Kite Point soundside shorelines. The Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $1.6 million in funds to dredge Avon Harbor and the adjacent channel,… Read More
Ocean County has agreed to pay the entire local cost of the latest federal beach replenishment project, providing relief for barrier island towns that were facing hefty bills for the work. “It’s great that they are going to pay the whole thing,” said Bay Head Mayor Bill Curtis, who added that mayors learned of the… Read More
The Dredge Potter crew finished up an unprecedented 2022-23 season on February 1, 2023, that required tremendous teamwork to maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water that affected the Mississippi River basin. Dredging operations moved nine million cubic yards of material,… Read More