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ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will soon begin construction activities in Sturgeon Lake in Pool 3 of the Mississippi River and at the Sturgeon Lake boat landing near Red Wing, Minnesota. Construction is expected to begin the week of Aug. 30, and will continue through November. The project,… Read More
Manson Construction Company, Seattle, Wash., has been awarded a $15,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 25, 2022. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile, Ala., is the contracting activity (W91278-21-D-0083)…. Read More
The Jacksonville District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin dredging sections of the Intracoastal Waterway in St. Johns County within the Palm Valley North Reach starting in October and finishing in May 2022. A $7.8 million operation and maintenance dredging contract was awarded Aug. 20 to Ahtna Marine & Construction Company, LLC, of Pompano… Read More
NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH, Onslow County — The Town of North Topsail Beach will receive a grant for Hurricane Florence repairs. FEMA announced Wednesday that the town will receive $1,027,627 grant to fund repairs caused by the hurricane that caused major damage in Eastern North Carolina in 2018. “As all Third District residents know, Hurricane Florence… Read More
NEWBURYPORT — With project bid documents set to be released next month, the planned dredging of sand from the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers to alleviate erosion at the beach along Reservation Terrace remains on schedule and is expected to begin in October. In a phone interview, Mayor Donna Holaday said that although there were some… Read More
Laguna Lake in San Luis Obispo will soon be dredged during a two-week project starting in mid-September, the city said in a news release Monday. The project is part of the city’s 2014 Laguna Lake Natural Reserve Conservation Plan to maintain the health of the lake and the recreational opportunities within and around it. Equipment… Read More
The August 2021 edition of The Corps Environment is now available! Read the latest issue: https://media-cdn.dvidshub.net/pubs/pdf_58742.pdf This edition highlights considering the environment when employing a risk management and systems approach, in support of Environmental Operating Principle #5. Content includes commentary from Mr. Richard Kidd, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment and Energy Resilience), and highlights… Read More
Houston headquartered NOV Inc. (NYSE: NOV) reports that it has signed a contract with shipbuilder COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry and Copenhagen, Denmark-headquartered Cadeler (OSE: CADLR) to supply the designs for two GustoMSC NG-20000X self-propelled wind turbine installation jack-up vessels (WTIVs), which will be known as the Cadeler X-Class. As we reported earlier, Cadeler recently signed… Read More
The Port of Houston Authority has signed a project partnership agreement (PPA) with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to widen and deepen the Houston Ship Channel. The PPA commits Port Houston to the responsibilities of the project, details the terms of the expansion and permits the start of dredging of the federal waterway. Known… Read More
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Women’s Equality Day is observed on Aug. 26 and commemorates the 1920 passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. The Army celebrates the courage and tenacity of those who challenged the nation to live up to its founding principles and the women who continue… Read More
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the NJ Department of Environmental Protection Thursday released draft study results and a tentative plan for coastal storm resilience measures intended to protect the New Jersey shore from extreme weather and rising sea levels. The USACE is soliciting public comment on the New Jersey Back Bays… Read More
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, the Army Corps of Engineers has been studying New Jersey’s 3,400 miles of back-bay shoreline to determine flood risk and look for possible structural options to mitigate the coming damage from rising sea levels. On Thursday, the Corps published an update to its “New Jersey Back Bays Study,” this… Read More
OCEAN CITY, Md. – Efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to replenish and support Ocean City beaches in the unpredictable foreground of climate change will commence after Labor Day and are expected to finish before Memorial Day next year. “We’re protecting such an important part of our state,” U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin,… Read More
In what the Southern Environmental Law Center calls “an abrupt reversal in decades of policy and practice,” the Corps now plans to allow hopper dredging year-round at Wilmington and Morehead City Harbors. That includes, according to the SELC, the height of turtle nesting season and times of year when many fish are in young sensitive… Read More