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Weeks Marine, Cranford, N.J., was awarded a $7,551,500 firm-fixed-price contract for monitoring, observing and relocating endangered species. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received. Work will be performed in Brazos Island, Texas, with an estimated completion date of July 5, 2021. Fiscal 2021 civil operation and maintenance funds in the amount of $7,551,500… Read More
The Dutra Group, San Rafael, Calif., was awarded a $19,607,500 firm-fixed-price contract for West Coast dredging projects. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work will be performed in Portland, Ore., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 15, 2021. Fiscal 2021 civil operation and maintenance funds in the amount of $19,607,500 were… Read More
BATON ROUGE, La. (April 14, 2021) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN®) initiative has selected The Water Institute of the Gulf to analyze how the federal benefit-cost analysis, used to select projects for construction, can more fully account for nature-based project benefits to the economy, environment and our communities…. Read More
SALISBURY — The town manager expects to ask voters for a little help with a beach replenishment project next month. A total of $19 million has been included in the federal fiscal 2022 budget to dredge sand from the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers. More than 220,000 cubic yards of Merrimack River sand has been claimed for the rebuilding… Read More
After an initial delay, the contested $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency Project is set to break ground in the coming days. All against a backdrop of legal filings and vociferous community opposition. “Building a recovery for all of us means fighting climate change and investing in resilient communities,” Mayor de Blasio stated in a… Read More
I had NO IDEA so much went into repairing our dunes! More than getting the project funded and approved, the sand selection (if not dredging the sand from the ocean floor) is super specific. The Toms River Township Council approved a contract this week for $438,525 to repair the dunes that were badly damaged in… Read More
The city of Portland has received state and federal approvals that bring it a step closer toward dredging piers, wharfs and waterfront properties in Portland Harbor. Green lights from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, announced Thursday, allow Portland and its partners to build a “confined aquatic disposal… Read More
Nearly 11 years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is preparing to bid out the marsh restoration project on Barataria Bay, La. According to NOAA, the lead federal agency on the Barataria Bay project, the explosion killed 11 people, injured 17 others and… Read More
This project will also provide a benefit to boaters in Hurricane Pass by dredging and removing excess sand. DUNEDIN, FL — The Florida Park Service is undertaking a resource management project to restore approximately 150,000 cubic yards of sand onto a portion of the beach at Honeymoon Island State Park. Tides passing through “Hurricane Pass”… Read More
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Army Corps of Engineers will adjust where it will place sediment to renourish the Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary after a continuous push from the town. The Corps thought it had reached a compromise with Mount Pleasant in 2018 after agreeing to shift the sediment to the southeast, but leaders remained unsatisfied…. Read More
WESTFIELD — New York’s two U.S. senators are calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to direct any surplus funding toward an emergency dredging of Barcelona Harbor. Due to rising water levels and increasingly frequent storms washing sediment over the break wall, the channel has increasingly shallowed and is becoming shoaled in. Senate Majority… Read More
Reprinted from Island Free Press After numerous complications with dredging the South Ferry Channel, the Army Corps of Engineers reported to the Dare County Waterways Commission at its Monday meeting that the hopper dredge Murden has finally started work removing the problem shoal. “They’re working daylight operations only,” the Corps’ Chief of Floating Plant Joen… Read More
By WDAM Staff | April 17, 2021 at 11:38 AM CDT – Updated April 17 at 1:41 PM VICKSBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – The United States Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District opened Friday the gates of the Steele Bayou Control Structure for the first time since March 15. Due to rainfall in the Mississippi River… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss. – Dr. Igor Linkov, senior science and technology manager at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory, has been selected by the George Washington University and Arthur S. Flemming Commission as one of 12 exceptional public servants in 2020. The winners – who represent a range of federal agencies… Read More
By Staff The city of Portland has received state and federal approvals that bring it a step closer toward dredging piers, wharfs and waterfront properties in Portland Harbor. Green lights from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, announced Thursday, allow Portland and its partners to build a “confined… Read More