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A contractor will begin mobilizing equipment next week for an in-lake habitat project that is slated to take place over the next three months in Fountain Lake. Courtney Phillips, program and project manager with the Shell Rock River Watershed District, said the project involves placing sunken boulder clusters and rock reef barriers strategically in areas… Read More
The Duck Pond on Virginia Tech’s campus is set to undergo dredging from late April until summer. “The duck ponds serve from an environmental standpoint as a stormwater detention pond,” said William Knocke, Professor and Associate Department Head for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Stormwater detention ponds are designed to capture sediment and… Read More
The Surf City Town Council has approved an immediate sand replacement project to address storm-induced beach erosion. On April 2, the council was presented with a budget ordinance amendment to repair dunes that were damaged by recent tidal events, according to a Friday press release from the town. Dune escarpment has increased vulnerability and impacted… Read More
Barges will soon be dumping sand offshore of the North End as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredging of the Palm Beach Inlet, said an expert working with the town’s Coastal Protection program. Work is expected to begin within the next few weeks and will continue until June, said Mike Jenkins, a coastal… Read More
Today, representatives with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District and City of Unalaska conducted a signing ceremony for an agreement that advances the construction of the Unalaska Channel project. Officially known as a “project partnership agreement,” the document was signed by Col. Jeffrey Palazzini, district commander, and Bil Homka, city manager of… Read More
A contractor will begin testing offshore sand deposits along the Oceanside coastline next week in search of possible sources for the city’s beach replenishment project. About 30 samples will be taken at depths up to 55 feet along an ocean shelf that extends from the mouth of the San Luis Rey River to the Buena… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) dredges millions of cubic yards of sediment annually from the Delaware River and Bay to provide for safe maritime navigation. A construction contractor is removing up to a million cubic yards of this sediment from USACE’s Fort Mifflin Dredged Material Disposal site in southwest Philadelphia. This provides for… Read More
Having the ability to face and overcome challenges is a sign of a true leader, and it is something that should be rewarded. Dustin Gautney, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District Chief of Public Affairs, did just that. Gautney was selected as the USACE Public Affairs Officer of the Year during the USACE PA… Read More
Work began Wednesday on the first of three U.S. Navy Landing Craft Utility (LCU) being built at Austal USA in Mobile — the first work under a $91.3 million contract awarded in September. “The LCU provides strategic value and versatility to the Navy-Marine Corps team,” said U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Karsten S. Heckl, who was… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced late Thursday they will open “a limited access channel 280 feet wide and 35 feet deep, to the Port of Baltimore within the next four weeks—by the end of April.” The Corps said the channel will support one-way traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore “for… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, will begin dredging the outer harbor in Holland, Michigan, this weekend to remove about 31,000 cubic yards of sediment from the federal navigation channel. The King Co., based in Holland, Michigan was awarded a $901,885 contract to hydraulically dredge Holland and Grand Haven this spring. The expected… Read More
MOBILE, Ala. – Having the ability to face and overcome challenges is a sign of a true leader, and it is something that should be rewarded. Dustin Gautney, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District Chief of Public Affairs, did just that. Gautney was selected as the USACE Public Affairs Officer of the Year during… Read More
GOODING, Idaho – Approximately 40 years ago, when Diane Houser first moved to the City of Gooding, Idaho, she noted deteriorating channel walls along the Little Wood River, a tributary of the Big Wood River in Idaho’s Magic Valley, which cuts through the small city. On March 28, representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of… Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is soliciting bids from contractors for the Approach Wall and Decommissioning Contract as part of the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project in Chattanooga Tennessee. “This lock, as part of the nation’s inland waterway system, is critical for providing safe, reliable, efficient and environmentally sustainable waterborne transportation… Read More
Vicksburg, Miss. — Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/48379 Report Number: ERDC/CHL TR-24-6 Title: Use of Sediment Tracers to Evaluate Sediment Plume at Beaufort Inlet and Adjacent Beaches, North Carolina By Honghai Li, Carter A. Rucker, Lihwa Lin, and Kevin B. Conner Approved for public release: distribution is unlimited. April 2024 70 pages / 30.8 MB Source