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Croatan residents have been watching the beach near their homes slowly wash away for years. They’ve asked the city for a more permanent solution to the problem as storms kick up waves that claw away the dunes. Each year, Public Works reinforces them with sand, but the fix is always short-lived. City leaders have been… Read More
Glen Cove officials failed in their initial attempt to persuade the Federal Highway Administration to extend a deadline to start ferry service to Manhattan. The city faces the possibility of paying back up to $16.6 million in grants used to help build a ferry terminal and dredge Glen Cove Creek if service doesn’t begin in… Read More
Cayo Rosario in San Pedro is a small caye that falls within the Hol Chan Marine Reserve that was sold to a private investor. That investor has already submitted a proposal for a massive development that will see over-water cabanas erected in the reserve. The developers will have to do significant dredging around the caye… Read More
Another delay will push beach replenishment back into August for some southern Delaware beaches. The project is slated to begin June 1 — half a month later than the original scheduled start date of May 15, according to the Army Corps of Engineer’s website. The postponement has been caused by the dredging company — Great… Read More
The rumblings that erupted yesterday over the proposed development of Apple Island by the Nigerian Army Properties Limited (NAPL)was laid to rest Saturday morning following the visit of Tukur Brutai, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who ordered NAPL to look for an alternative location for the development. The proposed Apple Island was to be… Read More
The head of the Army Corps of Engineers has finished his review of the proposed reservoir to cut Lake Okeechobee discharges. The Office of Management and Budget has to check the plan before we’ll officially know if the feds have given it a thumbs up or thumbs down. But a letter to OMB Director Mick… Read More
Tony Mikulec, Don Grieco, and Norm Hornunz call themselves the Orchard Park Breakfast Guys. Friday, after breakfast they came to Unity Island to check out the work that’s underway on the northern edge of the island. “This is going to be all marshland over here. I read in the paper they’re planting a lot of… Read More
This year’s legislative short session is expected to be about as short as it can get, and passing an adjusted state budget is going to be even shorter in what’s being called an unprecedented move. The biggest local provision authorizes $15 million from the shallow draft inlet dredging fund to create a partnership between the… Read More
A local state of emergency was declared Wednesday by the City of Sarasota for significant erosion on Lido Beach. The decision was made, city officials said, after a walking inspection along the beach by City Manager Tom Barwin and an official from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Barwin is authorized to declare a state… Read More
After about two weeks of on-site preparation, crews with Weeks Marine Inc. started pumping sand onto the east end of Caswell Beach Sunday, the latest milestone in a effort to clear the shipping channel for large, transoceanic vessels. Parts of the inner ocean bar of the Wilmington Harbor are badly shoaled and maintenance dredging scheduled… Read More
Over the past weekend, contractor Weeks Marine Inc.’s cutterhead pipeline dredge R.S. Weeks began placing sand near 69th Street in Harvey Cedars, commencing beach restoration for the borough. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, work there is expected to be complete by the end of July, pending any delays due to weather or… Read More
A federal agency says a current Santa Rosa County proposal to dredge channels in Santa Rosa Sound to give nearby residents better boat access fails to meet environmental standards. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued its opinion in an eight-page letter sent to the county earlier this month. It marks the latest chapter in… Read More
Temporary dredging around Tenby harbour area has been agreed following concerns raised by local councillors over the high level of sandbanks that have formed. Local councillors also heard this week how a general spruce-up of the harbour area is also in the pipeline, with a ‘comprehensive clean-up’ planned and procedures put in place to ensure… Read More
The town advisory board approved two actions related to the lagoon project in a special meeting May. The board approved recommending public works and other required departments negotiate with Technology Construction, Inc., for the additive bid of the total project for the Laughlin Lagoon Special Improvement District, which needs to be completed by Dec. 31…. Read More
The City of Saco and a number of coastal residents will need to sign off on a beach management agreement to protect piping plovers and other threatened and endangered birds before the city can receive sand from an upcoming Saco River dredging project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to start work in… Read More