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An escalation in the legal battle over sand. The group ‘Save Our Siesta Sand’ is not giving up its fight against dredging Siesta Key’s Big Pass to help re-nourish Lido Beach. Now, they’re taking the fight to the federal level. “Once you dredge a channel, you’re in for trouble,” Said Peter van Roekens, who is… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reconstructing a sand dune in Willapa Bay near the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation in order to restore flood protection. The $19.9 million federally-funded dune repair project is designed to provide coastal storm damage protection and is intended to protect the Shoalwater Bay Tribal community. Crews from the Manson… Read More
Town Council decides to finish project to deepen lake CAROLINA BEACH — The town may resume its stalled project to dredge the bottom of Carolina Beach Lake after the town council decided Tuesday night to finish the job. “I personally want to see the full dredge,” Mayor Pro Tem Leann Pierce said before the council… Read More
For months, the city had been looking for a solution, hiring FYRA Engineering to help with the growing algae. “You’re never going to get rid of it completely, virtual impossibility, but we can make it better,” Mitchell resident Carl Koch said. Koch has lived on Lake Mitchell for more than 15 years. He said the… Read More
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has recently granted a permit to dredge Big Pass – continuing the four-year battle over sand. The dredging is part of a Lido Key shoreline re-nourishment project, which aims to replenish 1.6 miles of the Lido Key with sand from Big Pass. Although the project is backed by the… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) says it received a $69.8M contract award to restore a two-mile stretch of the San Jacinto River, in the first major Houston-area flood control project after Hurricane Harvey. GLDD says its Rivers and Lakes division will work with the Galveston District to dredge 1.8M cubic yards of material and… Read More
Anglers at Kingwood’s River Grove Park couldn’t see the opposite bank of the San Jacinto River as they cast their lines into its murky water one recent morning. The view was obscured by a wall of sand pushed into the Texas channel some 10 months earlier by Hurricane Harvey. The Houston Chronicle reports aerial photographs… Read More
Town officials could decide Tuesday night to resume and finish its stalled project to dredge the bottom of Carolina Beach Lake. “My gut is that we’re going to finish the job,” Mayor Joe Benson said Friday. “I don’t think we’ll ever take this project up again if we don’t do it now.” The idea was… Read More
Proposals to dredge silt from the upper reaches of the Kankakee River will be discussed Wednesday by the Kankakee River Basin Commission of Indiana. The proposals, along 36 miles of the Kankakee, 4 feet deep and 50 feet wide, are in response to record flooding in the watershed in February. The work is proposed from… Read More
In response to Hurricane Harvey, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has tasked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete 1.9 million cubic yards of emergency dredging on a section of the West Fork of the San Jacinto River near West Lake Houston Parkway. Because this is an emergency project authorized by FEMA—unlike the Corps’… Read More
Should a portion of property taxes paid by waterfront homeowners be used to dredge lagoons that have become too shallow for boating? Some waterfront residents who live on Lagoon Drive West and Lagoon Drive East in Nejecho Beach said since they pay higher taxes, that perhaps some of that money could be used to dredge… Read More
In a letter to Gilbert Anderson, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Public Works, Brookhaven Town supervisor Ed Romaine urged county officials to dredge two locations in Bellport Bay. The letter, dated June 15, comes ahead of the county’s plans for fall and winter dredging projects. “There’s a narrow window for these projects,” Romaine… Read More
Correction: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect last name for attorney Jane West. A community group staunchly opposed to the city’s dredging of Big Pass to rebuild severely eroded Lido Beach will not end its fight to stop the project that it claims would harm Siesta Beach. Save Our Siesta Sands 2… Read More
The deeper and wider mouth of the Destin Harbor, which was enlarged during the first phase of the Norriego Point stabilization and recreation project, looks pretty terrific, said charter boat Capt. Brant Kelly. Kelly commands the 65-foot-long charter boat, Relentless, which has a 5-foot draft. Before it was recently dredged, the harbor entrance contained a… Read More
A decision on whether aggregate dredging can continue on a slice of sea-bed off Great Yarmouth for another 15 years will be made in the next few months. Tarmac Marine wants to take up to six million tonnes from area 254 – first approved as a dredging zone in 1974 – over a period of… Read More