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A new privately owned dredge is expected to keep the treacherous Oregon Inlet as deep as ever, clearing the way for larger boats to pass and adding about 2,000 jobs and $200 million to the local economy. Wanchese and Manteo could see a new influx of boating traffic and marine commerce. Rudee Inlet could get… Read More
The entrance of the Oceanside harbor, which missed its annual spring cleaning this year, will get a special dredging in October to keep the channel safe for navigation, federal officials announced Friday. Ocean waves and currents constantly push sand into the harbor, which requires periodic maintenance to stay open. A recent city survey showed the… Read More
The state Board of Public Works has approved grants to design shoreline restoration projects in Anne Arundel. Six Coastal Resiliency Program grants totaling $380,000 were awarded Wednesday, three of them in the county. All were for design work for the projects. Maryland’s coastline, including 520 miles of shoreline in Anne Arundel, experiences flooding and erosion,… Read More
An area along the coast is disappearing and is in desperate need of sand to be rebuilt. While another area is filling up with sand and potentially blocking boats from passing through the harbor. A project that would potentially fix the problem has been proposed but, keeps getting postponed. As the East Pass fills with… Read More
By removing the boards that hold together the dam at Lower Lake in Yaphank, the Town of Brookhaven officially began the process of draining and dredging the lake. Drainage is expected to continue through early winter. The removed boards allows for increased water flow from the lake into the Carmans River, which empties into the… Read More
The Ashland Water and Sewer District recently completed a project that rid its three wastewater treatment lagoons of 55 years of sludge. In February, district superintendent Frank Martin reported that the utility would do its first-ever full sludge removal, a process recommended every 20 years but which the town hadn’t done since the lagoons were… Read More
Like buses, good news comes along in twos for the port of Hamburg. It has finally received the go-ahead to begin dredging the River Elbe. The news came just 24 hours after it reported more dismal results, further volumes being lost to competitors Antwerp and Rotterdam. Chief executive Axel Mattern described the legal ruling as… Read More
The city of Port St. Joe and Florida Department of Environmental Protection have entered into a consent order outlining a plan to address issues with the city’s wastewater lagoon. The city will be fined $500 for regulatory violations over the years and provided a three-year period to attempt to address the problems through “biological dredging.”… Read More
The city’s new six-part plan to restore Sunset Beach Park on Oahu’s North Shore, following last winter’s severe erosion, is the first to take climate change into account, according to Jim Howe, director of the city’s Emergency Service Department. The Sunset Beach plan may serve as a model approach for other eroding shorelines on Oahu,… Read More
The Indian River Lagoon is home to thousands of different animal and plant species cohabitating in one of the most diverse estuaries in the world. But for the last five decades, human development coupled with negligence toward the estuary’s preservation, has manifested into an unprecedented health report card. The repercussions of our impact are visible… Read More
A $237.7 million plan to deepen the main channel of the Mississippi River to 50 feet from Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle earlier this month – a recommendation of approval by the Army Corps of Engineers senior civil engineer. The decision was praised Friday (Aug. 17) by Gov…. Read More
The Mississippi River Ship Channel could be the first port complex on the Gulf Coast to reach a depth of 50 feet now that the Director’s Report has been signed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Elected officials and industry leaders have long worked to increase the channel’s depth to 50 feet, which is… Read More
A $230 million shoreline storm protection project that includes creating 16-foot-tall dunes is changing the face of Long Beach, a magnet for beachgoers in the region. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is transforming the barrier island shoreline in a federally funded project to build dunes in front of the city’s famed boardwalk and widen… Read More
Explosions that have been rattling windows and startling Iqaluit residents almost daily since the beginning of August are expected to continue into November as Tower Arctic Ltd. blasts rock to clear space for the city’s deep sea port. “Right now we are blasting every day or two. But, once we pick up our pace, we… Read More
The ‘experimental’ Balluta Bay sand nourishment project has cost taxpayers over €100,000 but this investment might go down the drain as there is a distinct possibility of the beach disappearing completely in winter. The authorities are monitoring the situation closely to determine the long-term feasibility of the project. Inaugurated a fortnight ago, the sandy beach… Read More