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OUTER BANKS, N.C. – Nags Head will be starting a beach nourishment project this coming May. 10 miles of shoreline from the Bonnett Street public beach access near milepost 11, south to the town line with the National Park Service near milepost 21 is where the project will commence, according to Nags Head officials. Officials… Read More
The Topsail Island towns of North Topsail Beach, the north end is shown here, Surf City and Topsail Beach are in the process of choosing storm mitigation projects funded with a state Division of Water Resources grant. Photo: ATM/Dial Cordy and Associates SURF CITY – Picking their top three? Easy enough. The process that will… Read More
Photo: marinas.com MIDDLESEX COUNTY – It’s been three decades since the bustling Cheesequake Creek channel was last dredged, and marina owners here say they’re losing business as boat owners are finding the waters increasingly difficult to navigate. Only one side of the channel is passable for boats needing to clear a jetty and two bridges,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District navigation crew of the ND-6 crane barge assists Feb. 13 in rehabilitation of the dredged material upland placement site on the feeder ditch at the Dismal Swamp Canal in Virginia. Photo: Andria Allmond, U.S. Army CHESAPEAKE, Va. – Dredging of the Dismal Swamp Canal, which starts in… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Annisquam River federal navigation project (FNP) in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The city of Gloucester is the local sponsor and requested this dredging. The proposed work involves maintenance dredging of portions of the 8-foot-deep Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) channel… Read More
ERICA DYNES/Times-Press LA VALLE – Lake Redstone’s Protection District board is pushing ahead with its dredging project with hopes of presenting it to taxpayers in May. The board unanimously approved at its March 5 meeting at La Valle Town Hall to authorize Dredging Committee member Dick Fish to work with Jewell Engineering to review the… Read More
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. – A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to begin dredging Jekyll Creek from north of Downing Musgrove Causeway to the St. Simons Sound later this month. Cottrell Contracting, of Chesapeake, Va., will remove about 200,000 cubic yards of sediment from the eastern 75 feet of the channel,… Read More
Richard Payerchin – The Morning Journal The city of Lorain will seek another round of bids for a project that will transform mounds of piled slag to a green belt along the Black River. Meanwhile, the city also is seeking a consultant to help design and operate a facility that will reuse sediment dredged from… Read More
DESTIN — Okaloosa County appears to be only a step or two away from an agreement for the much-needed dredging of Destin’s East Pass. County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to go along with a plan under which 105,000 cubic yards of sand will be spread along the coastline east of the Pass at Holiday Isle… Read More
The Elizabeth II in Roanoke Island Festival Park. Photo: Outer Banks Sentinel DARE COUNTY — With its approval this week of a capital project ordinance for the Shallowbag Bay Dredging Project in Manteo, the Dare County Commissioners moved a step closer to freeing the Elizabeth II, the iconic wooden vessel stranded by shoaling and unable… Read More
(U.S. Army photo by Andria Allmond) CHESAPEAKE, Va. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to begin Dismal Swamp Canal dredging early next week. This is roughly a year ahead of schedule due to lingering impacts from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Norfolk District will manage the maintenance project as an effort to eliminate shoaling… Read More
Mexico Beach is far from recovered after Hurricane Michael walloped the shore last fall. Now lawmakers are hoping to help speed that recovery along. Rep. Jay Trumbull (R-Panama City) says a big part of the recovery is beach restoration. He’s asking the state to foot the bill to the tune of $25-million. “To essentially reestablish… Read More
OAK ISLAND, NC (WECT) – Construction is underway on a dredging project and a new Publix in the Town of Oak Island. Residents can expect to see crews unloading heavy equipment onto the beach in preparation for a small dredging project in the Intracoastal Waterway. The town is asking the public to give crews space… Read More
In early January, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) and Ohio EPA received approval to begin funding almost $10 million in dredging projects, as part of the state’s Healthy Lake Erie Fund. Three projects, with the Port of Toledo, the City of Lorain and the City of Conneaut, will use the funds to support… Read More
Image via Youtube North Carolina Wildlife Commission coming to county’s April 1 meeting COLUMBUS—It sounds like the dredging of Lake Adger could be in the near future as the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is scheduled to unveil its plans at the county’s April 1 meeting. Commissioners met Monday and heard from county manager Marche… Read More