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The Smoky Hill River Renewal Project envisions a future where people can walk or ride bikes alongside a clear, flowing river, or row down the winding river through Salina in a canoe or kayak. Construction on phase one of the multiphase project isn’t scheduled to begin until 2020, but planning is already well underway. More… Read More
Last week, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources officially moved to cancel the state’s wild oyster season, which would have run from November through April. Exploratory dives at oyster harvesting grounds had revealed a continued steep decline in the number of oysters in the state’s waters. Last year’s season was curtailed after fishermen… Read More
It could be six months or more before the Shafer and Freeman Lakes Environmental Conservation Corporation gets a decision on whether or not Lake Freeman will be lowered during droughts. However, it’s a good thing that the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee is considering a rehearing, said Gabrielle Haygood, the SFLECC Executive Director. The group’s attorney… Read More
A plan to build a second regional sewage-treatment plant in Wayne County has gotten a $5 million boost from the state. State Sen. Pam Helming and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced Thursday that the Wayne County Water and Sewer Authority has been awarded $5 million toward the cost of constructing the new plant, estimated to… Read More
Engineers moved on site earlier this week to start the major scheme which will see the coastal pathway repaired to its former glory. Contractors Earlcoate Construction and Plant Hire Ltd have been appointed to carry out the work, with vegetation clearance completed last month. The work comes after a long campaign by residents to get… Read More
Brookhaven has halted a $2.5 million project to drain Lower Yaphank Lake after discovering more than 300 cubic yards of sediment flowed into a section of Carmans River. Town officials surveyed roughly two miles of the river flowing downstream from Yaphank Avenue after an environmental group that did its own assessment said the project had… Read More
In an attempt to get the overwhelming water hyacinth problem under control in local dams, some municipalities have opted to poison the plants. However, the use of poisons may have a huge environmental impact on the ecosystem of the dam and the communities exposed to that water. The dams in and around Springs, including the… Read More
The tenth year of PCB dredging in the Fox River wrapped up Thursday. Crews have been working to remove PCBs from the sediment. Much of this year’s work took place from Porlier Street north towards the mouth of the Fox River. Work is expected to resume in spring, according Scott Stein, spokesman for the Fox… Read More
It appears a previously announced project that would allow some of the world’s biggest oil tankers to load and unload at Harbor Island on the Port of Corpus Christi’s outskirts will have to be scaled back. It’s all a matter of money. Port Commissioners say there’s not enough of it right now, and there won’t… Read More
Work never ends on the waterfront. The Port Authority Commission discussed two projects Wednesday night; a camera update, which neared completion, and dredging that continues to move at a slow pace. About 20 cameras, placed on docks, the hurricane barrier and as south as Fort Taber, are plugged into a system that allows mobile monitoring… Read More
Shoemaker Bay is pretty quiet right now, as most of the prep work is done. The city and Petersburg contractors Tamico and Rock-N-Road have been at work completely tearing apart the 41-year-old harbor. There’s basically no more pilings, floats, piers and ramps anymore. Some concrete work is being done in town for the main platform…. Read More
The National Wildlife Federation was awarded a $1.2 million grant earlier this month from the newly created National Coastal Resilience Fund to continue efforts to restore and strengthen the Great Marsh, which stretches from Cape Ann up through Newburyport to the New Hampshire border. The grant is boosted by $1.3 million from various state projects… Read More
Pigeon Lake will not be dredged, after all. A month after residents in the Pigeon Lake Protection & Rehabilitation District voted to dredge the lake during a water draw-down for dam repairs, that vote has been nullified because the district did not give proper notice of the meeting, according to Keith Steckbauer, the attorney for… Read More
With immediate effect and for approximately 3 months, rock excavation and dredging works will be carried out within the area bounded by straight lines joining the following co-ordinates (WGS 84 Datum) from (A) to (D): (A) 22 deg. 20.893’ N / 114 deg. 07.175’ E (B) 22 deg. 20.784’ N / 114 deg. 07.212’ E… Read More
Ocean City awarded a $2.3 million contract to restore the badly eroded neighboring Shooting Island to turn it into a wildlife refuge, storm buffer and potential site for dredge materials. The nearly 150-acre island off Ocean City will be transformed into a “living shoreline” under a proposed project to rebuild it after decades of erosion…. Read More