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The Department of Enterprise Services is in the process of selecting a consultant to perform an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which is the second phase in long-term planning for the Capitol Lake/Lower Deschutes Watershed. An EIS is a tool used in decision making and is required before: •Any short-term actions are taken, such as initial… Read More
The Gulf Consortium has approved the RESTORE Act’s state expenditure plan, which includes $12.6 million to clean up Bayou Chico and $12.6 million to improve water quality in Santa Rosa Sound. The consortium formally approved the plan at a board meeting Thursday in Panama City Beach. Gov. Rick Scott still needs to sign off on… Read More
The Glynn County Commission voted Thursday to approve a temporary amendment to the zoning ordinance, which will allow the county’s community development department to approve the Sea Island Co.’s beach renourishment plan. To get U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approval for a new rock groin and the renourishment plan, Sea Island would need approval from… Read More
Goshen Dam Pond Dredging Advisory Board members met Thursday at the Goshen Municipal Annex Building to finalize plans for a proposed revamp of the recently stalled Goshen Dam Pond dredging project. Thursday’s meeting served as a final question-and-answer session between the board and the project’s major stakeholders prior to the project’s rebidding slated for later… Read More
It cost twice as much as expected, but after 18 months of work and nearly a million tons of soil removed, Wynn Resorts has finished the cleanup of environmental contamination at the site of its resort casino in Everett, the company announced Wednesday. Cleaning the 33-acre property on the Mystic River, the site of a… Read More
Bethany Beach’s replenishment project was supposed to start Tuesday, but because of delays in another project, the replenishment is unfortunately behind schedule. The project is now slated to begin on May 25th, 10 days behind schedule. Once the project begins, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says at any given point, a 1,000 feet of… Read More
Essentially closed a year ago due to shoaling, the Little Egg Inlet between Long Beach and Brigantine Islands has reopened to boaters after a dredging operation and the installation of navigational buoys, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard removed the buoys last March and advised boaters that they traversed the inlet at their own… Read More
With sand choking the main inlet to Chatham Harbor across from the lighthouse, most of the commercial fishing fleet is now using the north inlet by Minister’s Point to access the Atlantic. But the narrow channel there needs to be widened, and fishermen are hoping that state and federal dredging restrictions don’t leave them high… Read More
A body was found during dredging work in the IJ near IJdok in Amsterdam on Thursday morning. So far nothing is known about the victim and how he or she died. According to NH Nieuws, an employee of the dredging company found the body around 10:00 a.m. The police are investigating. Source: NLTimes
Mahaffey Theatre. Salvador Dali Museum. Davis Islands. They all sit on dredged land. “Dredge and fill” is when mud and weeds from an open waterway are used to extend land. The Hillsborough County Planning Commission recently approved a project north of Rocky Point Drive that would utilize the practice, a first for the county in… Read More
After nearly a decade of waiting people in west Augusta are finally seeing a neighborhood pond get cleaned up. Even with the rain slowing things down dredging has started on Hiers pond in the Kamel West subdivision. Voters approved the work back in 2009, but concerns with soil contamination slowed down the permitting process with… Read More
The dumping of sewage sludge in deeper waters beyond the Kish Bank “might well serve as a model” for the current dredging of Dublin Port. In a letter to The Irish Times earlier this week, Cormac F Lowth, a diver and member of the Maritime Institute of Ireland, suggests that the claims of Dublin Port… Read More
Residents are still sounding off about the City Dock. One month after the Southport Board of Aldermen approved a letter of intent to explore a public-private partnership with Southport Marina Inc., residents say they feel the issue needs more thoughtful consideration. Margaret Campbell, a resident of Brunswick Street, took issue with the speed at which… Read More
The €6m revamp of an historic Cork city quay which will include the city’s first flood defences has been given the go-ahead. City councillors have voted 22-6 during a city council meeting to approve the Part 8 report on the Morrison’s Island regeneration project despite significant opposition about the inclusion of flood defences proposed as… Read More
The ocean inlet to the Bolsa Chica wetlands, once again being dredged to allow the tidal flushing vital to the abundant wildlife in the area, could run dry of funds necessary for the near-annual pumping operation required to maintain the ecosystem. Money earmarked for dredging at the state reserve in Huntington Beach will be exhausted… Read More