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Audubon Louisiana’s Director of Bird Conservation Erik I. Johnson, Ph.D. stopped by the Passe Partout set to discuss their successful efforts with the Restore the Mississippi River Delta organization. Here are some of the talking points he touched upon: Audubon Louisiana is the state office of the National Audubon Society, which works to advance conservation… Read More
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) is seeking grant applications to help fund projects that enhance or restore habitat for wildlife, with available funding totaling more than $735,000 over the next three years. The grants stem from the multi-agency Environmental Enhancement Fund (EEF), whose selection committee includes… Read More
Rep. Lee Zeldin gave an update on the much-needed Moriches Inlet emergency dredging project Thursday. Earlier this year, Zeldin called for the dredging of Moriches Inlet and Long Island Intracoastal Waterway after a series of winter storms. Zeldin recently secured the approval of and $12.25 million in funding for an emergency dredge of Moriches Inlet…. Read More
The Town of Babylon will hold a special meeting Wednesday to vote on bonding for $500,000 to replenish two beaches eroded by a spate of nor’easters. Storms during the past few years have chipped away at the sand at Overlook and Cedar beaches, town spokesman Kevin Bonner said, and the sand there has become “precariously… Read More
Pack away the ear plugs and walk a little farther. Beach replenishment is just about done on the southern Delaware coast. By widening the beach and raising the sand dunes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Philadelphia District hopes to protect the coastal area infrastructure, homes and businesses, and with them, the local economy…. Read More
A long-delayed final environmental impact study for protecting lower Cowlitz River cities from flooding related to Mount St. Helens has been released for public review and comment, marking a “milestone” for community safety, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The plan consists of three basic elements proposed earlier: Raising the sediment-retaining dam on… Read More
Beachfill contractor Weeks Marine Inc. was completing restoration of Surf City on Tuesday, Aug. 7, tapering off the work a few streets into northern Ship Bottom “to ensure a smooth transition,” said Steve Rochette, public affairs officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the project’s federal sponsor. According to Rochette, Weeks will then demobilize… Read More
The second phase of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ coastal protection project hit a delay last week as a result of rough weather and a broken dredge, Project Manager Dan Falt said on Tuesday. “We did lose a little time,” Falt acknowledged. “There was a week of high seas, and then the dredge broke… Read More
The Pontiac Bay Superfund dredging project is on track to wrap up by early September, according to state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman David Winchell. The $8.5 million project is taking more than 15,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment out of the bay — as well as 6,000 cubic yards from the source location on… Read More
The community dock at your lakeside community doesn’t do much for your recreational boating plans if it’s inaccessible due to a long-term buildup of silt. That’s the problem Troy Crites and his Southwind Shores I neighbors at Lake Anna were facing. Crites has owned his property for about 20 years, but for the last decade… Read More
The Siuslaw River is the repository for water runoff from an area of approximately 775 square miles of the Central Oregon Coast Range, beginning in Cottage Grove 110 miles away, and continuing west and northwest until it meets the Pacific Ocean. The effect of Pacific Ocean tides, technically known as the head of tides, is… Read More
Before October 2018 is out, Camden County will have begun its most ambitious capital project to date: the 18-month, $25-million dredging and restoration of Newton Creek. The 110-acre project stretches from Cuthbert Boulevard in Haddon Township to the Black Horse Pike in Audubon, and touches properties in Audubon Park, Oaklyn, and Collingswood, as well. Even… Read More
Dredging of the mouth of the Colorado River is to begin next spring. The Port of Bay City (POBC) received notification July 30 of $6 million in funding through the USACE by way of the Congressional Supplemental Appropriations for the next fiscal year with Crops being administered the funds in October. “Dredging is critical really… Read More
If you think you’ve been waiting a long time for Fountain Lake to be dredged, past Tribunes have news for you: in 1939, they waited longer. “For more than 40 years, the citizens of Albert Lea have talked, periodically, about improving Fountain Lake,” a March 14, 1939, article said. The first dredge — named “Captain… Read More
Crews have been granted permission by the U.S. Army Corps of Army Engineers (USACE) to begin dredging on the Ponce de Leon Inlet. This should make it more secure for anglers to navigate. In addition, the dredging will offer additional beach nourishment for the nearby coastline. The Inlet itself has not been maintained to this… Read More