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Manson was the low bidder on the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf, Southwest Pass Hopper Dredge #1-2026 project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New Orleans District. This $26.2 million project will involve dredging the Mississippi River’s Southwest Pass, with potential work in additional areas to be determined by the USACE New… Read More
Arcadis has secured a major design contract for the new Digby Ferry Terminal in Nova Scotia. The company was selected by Public Services and Procurement Canada and Transport Canada to serve as the prime consultant for the project. Under the contract, Arcadis will lead the architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and engineering for the new… Read More
By Joe Brandt, Ryan Hughes, Josh Sanders Equipment is in place on the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey, on Tuesday as a $19.5 million beach replenishment project contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gets underway. A dredging ship operated by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company is being moved to the… Read More
By Nicole Blevins The Grand Strand beach renourishment project is moving into its final phase of work along Surfside Beach and Garden City beach. The project managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District began in North Myrtle Beach and moved south into Myrtle Beach, closing sections of beach while work was completed that created a… Read More
By Sofia Dinka USACE released its updated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) last week. It added to a past report from September of 2025 that drew pushback and complaints from local environmental advocates and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. The new report accounts for PFAS contamination, which hadn’t been deeply considered in the September report…. Read More
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has awarded Great Lakes Dock and Marine and Ryba Marine Construction Co. for repairs to the Bird Island Pier along the Niagara River, totaling $15.52 million, ensuring safe navigation, a strong regional economy, and protection of the City of Buffalo’s main drinking water source…. Read More
PITTSBURGH — WHO: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Pittsburgh District and Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) WHAT: USACE and SPC will co-host multiple open house-style meetings for the public to learn about the progress and early considerations of the Chartiers Creek feasibility study. Representatives from USACE and SPC will be available at stations to answer questions… Read More
By Eric Conklin | NJ.com Crews are finally rebuilding stretches of shoreline after months of erosion left several New Jersey beaches dangerously narrow, following federal spending cuts that delayed the projects. Beachgoers visiting Sea Isle City ahead of Independence Day weekend had a front-row seat to the work as construction vehicles rumbled across the sand and dredged… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Brandon Hubbard tells us they’ll start early this month and wrap up in August. Viking Marine Construction will remove 83,000 cubic feet of sediment from the harbor. “Basically what they’re going to do is hydraulically dredge with a submerged pipeline some of the sediment out of the shipping channel there, and it’ll be placed half a mile down shore south of the harbor,” Hubbard said. However, the sand won’t be deposited the usual way, along the shore to replenish the beach directly. Rather,… Read More
By Charles Swenson The largest vessel to enter the Georgetown Harbor in a decade will arrive this month, giving a public face to the waterfront revitalization that has existed in plans and drawings. The 350-foot dredge will remove about 560,000 cubic yards of silt to restore the federal channel to a depth of 12 feet along… Read More
NOAA has awarded $99,637,544.00 to JAG Ketchikan, LLC. in Ketchikan, Alaska, to complete expanded upgrades and maintenance on NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow. Following the 2027 field season, the ship will undergo this work for a 14-month period. The Bigelow is one of NOAA’s 15 research vessels and studies a wide range of marine life and ocean… Read More
HONOLULU, Hawaii — Lt. Col. Lamar Cantelou became the 75th commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District, during a change of command ceremony July 2 at historic Palm Circle, Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Cantelou, who most recently served as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assumed command from… Read More
By Noe Gonzalez CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (July 2, 2026) — Construction crews recently reached a major milestone at the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project, successfully placing the first of several massive concrete beams for the new upstream approach wall. Using a dual-derrick barge crane system, the team maneuvered 420-ton beams into their final positions — a feat of… Read More
By Andria Allmond PORTLAND, Ore. — After more than a century of quiet brooding, Mount St. Helens, known to the Cowlitz as Lawetlat’la, or The Smoking Mountain, began to announce its impending wrath. In the end, the mountain’s eruption would prove to not be singular event, but the beginning of a decades-long geological and engineering challenge. For… Read More
NEW YORK — As the nation celebrated the 250th Anniversary of American independence, one of the first vessels to begin the day’s mission wasn’t a warship or a tall ship—it was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District Drift Collection Vessel HAYWARD. Before thousands of sailors manned the rails, before military aircraft thundered… Read More