MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. — A long-delayed project to dredge all the sand that has been choking John’s Pass for years will start next month. City officials said Friday that work will begin Feb. 9 and that the project will take anywhere from 60 to 90 days to complete. It will remove up to 12,900 cubic… Read More
Contractors are setting up now for maintenance dredging of the Fly Creek boat channel. Last November, the city council selected low-bidder M & N of Alabama Llc. ($718K) to dredge the main Fly Creek boat channel (10′ depth) as well as a portion of the upper creek channel in the vicinity of city’s boat docks…. Read More
HOUSTON, Texas — The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (ASA CW) The Honorable Adam Telle visited the Port of Houston Authority as part of his first official visit to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District, January 21, 2026. Sec. Telle is visiting the Galveston District to see project sites,… Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in coordination with the North Carolina State Ports Authority, has asked the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s (NCDEQ) Division of Coastal Management (DCM) to pause its review of USACE’s consistency determination for the proposed Wilmington Harbor federal channel deepening project. DCM has granted the request to pause… Read More
Dredging operations are scheduled to take place in Maine’s Wells Harbor from Monday, February 2 through Friday, February 27, as part of efforts to improve navigational conditions in the harbour and address dune restoration along Atlantic Avenue. The dredging will entail the removal of 7,000 cubic yards (5,000 cubic metres) of sand. Michel’s Corporation will… Read More
The Newark Bay Maintenance Dredging Project is nearing completion, restoring the federal navigation channel to an authorized depth of 50ft. Jun Yan, project manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, explains why a federal navigation channel is dredged and how important it is to the economy of the region. Source
NEW BUFFALO — Members of the New Buffalo Harbor Commission received a status report on dredging plans for the city harbor’s federal “inner channel” during its Jan. 7 regular meeting. City Manager Darwin Watson and Parks Director Kristen D’Amico said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge the inner harbor this year (the… Read More
If you’ve seen pipes on the beach in Far Rockaway this winter, it isn’t a new gas pipeline. Instead, it’s just the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) at work on a dredging and sand replenishment project. Since the fall, USACE has been doing routine dredging of the Federal Navigation Channel of the East Rockaway… Read More
FORT PIERCE – The St. Lucie County Erosion District is partnering with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to address the significant erosion in the area south of the Fort Pierce Inlet. A beach nourishment project is set to begin in early March. Fort Pierce Beach is on a two-year nourishment schedule because of the… Read More
SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — The harbor deepening project in the Cape Fear River has been put on hold until further notice, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers takes stock of public and state concerns. The project has raised issues by municipalities and the public, including further exacerbating already existing PFAS contamination in the Cape Fear, flooding, rising… Read More
A federal judge has dismissed a high-profile constitutional challenge to the Jones Act, delivering a major win for the U.S. maritime industry and the Trump Administration’s defense of America’s cabotage laws. In a 46-page opinion, Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected claims from Hawaii-based Koloa… Read More
Fresh off being named by Conde Nast readers as the best beach in the U.S., Pensacola Beach is about to undergo a $35 million beach renourishment project to expand and improve more than eight miles of public beach. Santa Rosa Island Authority (SRIA) Executive Director Mike Burns says work to add 1. 8 trillion cubic yards of sand is scheduled… Read More
Lido Key beach’s shoreline renourishment project is underway. Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand will be dredged from New Pass and placed on the beach as part of the project, much needed after recent hurricanes and storms have caused shoreline degradation to the popular beach just south of Longboat Key. “Since the last… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers Little Rock District commander was fired last week, service officials said in an unusual announcement that blamed “entrenched bureaucracy” and a failure to follow orders. Army Col. Patrick Caukin, who took command of the district that covers Arkansas and southern Missouri in September 2025, was relieved of duty Thursday by… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last week it will hold two online public meetings later this month to get feedback on a $1.5 billion project to run a 100-mile-long high-voltage power line under the Columbia River. The announcement closely followed a notice from the federal agency earlier this month that it will do its most… Read More