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The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy are working with partners to restore and strengthen salt-marsh habitat at the John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge. The project will enhance wildlife habitat and enable the marsh to withstand the impacts of sea-level rise and coastal storm surge. In addition, it will improve habitat… Read More
A dozen river and wetland restoration projects across the Commonwealth, including one on Cape Cod, are getting priority from the state for restoration. The new Priority Projects include dam removals, culvert replacements, urban river revitalization, salt marsh restoration, and streamflow restoration. Each effort restores healthy habitat while also helping communities prevent storm damage, address aging… Read More
A roughly $21 million federal grant will go toward repairing a dock near the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Carbide Dock Port in Sault Ste. Marie is a staging area for vessels requiring assistance. The money would pay for rehabilitating the dock and reconstructing truck routes to it. The grant was announced this… Read More
PCBs left behind in the Hudson River after a cleanup project by General Electric Co. have spread to contaminate nearby areas that were dredged, according to a consultant hired by the environmental group Scenic Hudson. The study found elevated PCB levels in dozens of areas where the chemical was dredged from the river bottom and… Read More
On Sunday night, a barge carrying construction equipment capsized and likely sank about two miles off Nahant, a small town just northeast of Boston. The captain of tug boat Big Jake notified the Coast Guard at 0930 hours Sunday morning that two of five barges in his tow had broken free and gone adrift. Crew… Read More
Lavallette officials said Monday that beach replenishment operations are scheduled to begin Dec. 19 in the borough. Lavallette is one of the last communities on the island to receive the federally-funded project, which will create 22-foot high dunes and at least 200 feet of beach berm in front of them. Borough Administrator Robert Brice said… Read More
A beach replenishment project in the words for more than 15 years has been completed in Ortley Beach. Beachfill operations by Weeks Marine, the federal government’s contractor on the project, are now complete, Toms River officials confirmed. The contractor is still in the process of installing hard-packed sand beach entrances, post-and-rail fencing and protecting snow… Read More
The Sandscaping scheme will see up to 1.8 million cubic metres of sand placed on to the beaches covering a 5.7km length starting north west of Bacton Gas Terminal and ending to the south east of Walcott. This would be made up of approximately one million cubic metres in front of Bacton Gas Terminal, and… Read More
The proposed Fargo-Moorhead Diversion is now expected to cost $2.75 billion. A new estimate for the flood diversion project was announced Monday, Dec. 3 by the Diversion Authority Board. Changes in Plan B’s design, modifications to utility relocations, updating costs to 2018 dollars and revised contingencies were all cited as reasons for the estimate increase…. Read More
Last month, Turner Station Conservation Teams (TSCT) received $30,000 from an anonymous source for its Fleming Park project. “This will give us seed money to start up the actual design for the project,” Gloria Nelson, TSCT president, said. Upon Gov. Larry Hogan’s approval to use dredge materials for projects such as roads and to fill… Read More
THE NSW Environment Protection Authority has ordered Central Coast Council to cease sand dredging at The Entrance. The EPA has concerns about possible environmental impacts of the dredging, but the council said it had fully complied with its licence requirements. “Following a community complaint, the EPA investigated the discharge of sediment to waters at the… Read More
On the surface, the proposed dredging of the Grand River from Grand Rapids to Eastmanville sounds like a good idea. How cool would it be to open up the river to big boat traffic through a navigable waterway? But when you dive into it deeper and start to think about the reality of such a… Read More
PCBs left behind in the Hudson River after a cleanup project by General Electric Co. have moved to contaminate nearby areas that were dredged, according to a consultant hired by the environmental group Scenic Hudson. The study found elevated PCB levels in dozens of areas where the chemical was dredged from the river bottom and… Read More
Just a quarter-billion dollars separates the Port of Baltimore from joining the East Coast intermodal arms race, even with CSX back onboard to help reconstruct a key rail link to the marine gateway. The Maryland Ports Administration is short $263 million, according to a new report, to start construction to clear doublestack trains through Baltimore’s… Read More
The Sherrys say that under the existing Inlet Management Plan, sand will be put on areas of Holiday Isle that are private and inaccessible to the public. They argue that if sand was placed on areas on the west side of the pass it would benefit public beach areas on the island. DESTIN — An… Read More