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By Claire O’Neil DESTIN, Fla. — A collaborative project in Okaloosa County will help a beach that suffered from erosion caused by Hurricane Sally in 2020. A nearly $10 million beach restoration project will begin in west Destin on March 23. “In 2020, when we lost all of this beach back when Sally hit,” said… Read More
By Joy Crist Plans to renourish the beaches in Avon and Buxton continue to advance after Dare County secured key permits and opened contractor bids, with county officials stating that construction is expected to take place this summer. Dare County received two bids from Weeks Marine and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock in February, and… Read More
By Lillian Putnam REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — Army leaders and environmental experts met at Redstone Arsenal for the Feb. 25 inaugural meeting of a working group focused on strengthening coordination and advancing environmental restoration across the installation. The meeting brought together representatives from U.S. Army Environmental Command, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support… Read More
By Elijah Wittum When a barge passes through a navigation lock along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, few people think about the massive steel gates that quietly make the process possible. Behind those gates is a team of engineers and technical specialists from across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including experts from the… Read More
By Samantha Boyle When Lisa Clay graduated law school in 1987, she never imagined she would be practicing environmental law, let alone be awarded with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Quality Award nearly 40 years later. After initially planning to work in consumer advocacy or with people who cannot afford representation, Clay is now the Deputy District Counsel (Regulatory & Operations… Read More
By Stephen Baack IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. — Senior leaders and project delivery team members with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joined key partners for a meeting and site tour of the Salton Sea Feb. 22-23 in Imperial County. The interagency teams met to discuss updates on the Imperial Streams and Salton Sea Aquatic Ecosystem… Read More
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 Jack Motz Two barges and four months later, the dredging of Montauk Harbor is now complete — and fishermen say passage in and out of the inlet has been easier since the completion of the operation. Looming over Gosman’s Dock starting in December was Oyster Bay, a 144-foot-long dredge equipped with a 7-foot cutter head… Read More
By Mike Lang A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers positions a dredge in New Pass Thursday, March 5, 2026. The project is a collaboration between the City of Sarasota, Sarasota County and the Corps of Engineers to renourish 1.2 miles of Lido Beach that were eroded during the 2024 hurricane season. Read the story. Source
By Kelsey Marier RED WING, Minn. (KTTC) – The Army Corps of Engineers will be holding a meeting Tuesday on Mississippi River dredging. The Corps of Engineers staff is looking for information regarding its current dredging operations and future placement requirements for material removed from the river. Dredging removes accumulated sediment, silt and debris from… 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
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District will begin dredging at Palm Beach Harbor for the upcoming Federal beach renourishment project on the Mid-Town Segment of the Town of Palm Beach. This iteration is not a traditional Operations and Maintenance (O&M) event for the harbor. Instead, material from the harbor’s… Read More