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Another piece of the complex beach nourishment puzzle has been put in place, as federal regulators have granted approval to four northern Outer Banks towns to have sand from offshore pumped onto their beaches starting next spring. As part of its efforts to support local economies and protect coastal communities and habitats from the impacts… Read More
The Dare County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to award a $25.87 million bid to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. for the 2022 Avon and Buxton beach nourishment projects. The county received bids for the project on Nov. 17 from Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Manson Construction Co. and Weeks Marine. Great… Read More
Douglas County is lending a hand to a project planned for Duluth. The land and development committee approved an agreement Nov. 30 with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granting access for remedial construction work at Munger Landing. Douglas County owns the riparian rights in the area that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency selected for a… Read More
FENWICK ISLAND – A new partnership could allow a dredging project in Fenwick Island to move forward. Last Thursday, the Fenwick Island Dredging Committee convened to discuss the next steps in pursuing a partnership with Seatowne, a private community north of Fenwick Island. Officials say the idea is to use dredged materials from a town-led… Read More
To close out the two-day sprint across five states, the Memphis District held two final ribbon-cutting ceremonies on Nov. 18, 2021. Both events celebrated construction projects completed in Arkansas and Missouri. The first celebration acknowledged a project in Greene County, Arkansas. There, contractors addressed a damaged levee culvert and erosion caused by previous flood events…. Read More
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo., Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Arcadis (EURONEXT: ARCAD) today announced it is among 12 firms selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Center (USACE) in Huntsville, Alabama as one of the awardees on a $1.136 billion shared-capacity contract for chemical, environmental and munitions remediation services. Services provided under the contract… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District awarded a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) to six Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) companies on Nov. 29, 2021. Simply put, a MATOC is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract awarded to multiple firms following a formal selection process. It provides for an indefinite quantity… Read More
Officials with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and the Charleston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently conducted a walk-through inspection of the completed Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary restoration project with project contractor Norfolk Dredging Company. Norfolk began placing approximately 660,000 cubic yards of compatible material from the Charleston Harbor Deepening “Post… Read More
Senators call on Corps to tackle backlog of dredging projects for small ports and channels, quickly transition from Poplar Island to Mid-Bay restoration U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (Both D-Md.) wrote Monday to the newly confirmed Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, who leads the Army Corps of Engineers, spotlighting the major priorities across… Read More
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote to Michael Connor, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, prior to the Army Corps Engineers finalizing their supplemental work plan for Fiscal Years 2022 through 2024, to ensure that “all proposed and ongoing projects in Florida receive full and… Read More
Nick-named “Old Banana Boat” by Marc Krumholz Congress authorized the 9-foot Navigation Channel to increase commerce on the river in 1930. Upon the project’s approval, the Corps of Engineers began constructing a series of 29 locks and dams from Minneapolis to St. Louis, creating the stairway of water for river traffic that exists today. Since… Read More
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., – The Soo Locks’ MacArthur Lock will close to marine traffic 7:00 a.m. Dec. 15, 2021 through 12:01 a.m. April 30, 2022 to perform critical maintenance. The Poe Lock will remain open until 11:59 p.m. Jan. 15, 2021 or until commercial traffic ceases, whichever occurs first. The operating season is fixed… Read More
LOWER TOWNSHIP — New life could be coming to a swath of marsh near Sunset Beach, under a proposal to restore tidal flow to Pond Creek. Aside from returning a wide area of the Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area to its previous habitat, the three-phase state project could allow more public access to the site,… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has granted Dare County access to up to 6.6 million cubic yards of sand from the Outer Continental Shelf to restore 11.6 miles of beachfront in Duck, Southern Shores, Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills. Set to begin next year, the project is part of Dare County’s long-term shoreline-management… Read More
Audubon North Carolina and the Currituck Sound Coalition announced the release of a landmark Marsh Conservation Plan that identifies the complex web of threats facing Currituck Sound and offers a blueprint of how best to protect and restore this invaluable coastal ecosystem for wildlife and people. The extensive freshwater marshes of Currituck Sound are a globally rare… Read More