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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Oregon Water Resources Department are planning an open house to inform the public about potential water storage reallocation in the Willamette Valley. The meeting will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Salem office, 4034… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Oregon Water Resources Department are planning an open house to inform the public about potential water storage reallocation in the Willamette Valley. The meeting will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Salem office, 4034… Read More
Property owners up and down the New Jersey shore have tried many ways to block a protective sand dune project on their land. They complained about of lost views of the ocean; argued that existing dunes or rock walls they built and maintained on their own offer better protection against storms, and even worried about… Read More
Boaters were handed an early Christmas gift Tuesday, with state officials announcing that Little Egg Inlet, long plagued by shoals and breaking waves, will be dredged with the sand to be used for a beach replenishment project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers previous declined to dredge the inlet because it is not legally considered… Read More
A four-month dredging programme will start shortly at Axmouth Harbour to avoid it returning to its former state of mud flats. The three-phase dredging work will see Axmouth Harbour relieved of quantities of naturally accumulated silt. The work will be undertaken over the coming months by the Axe Yacht Club in conjunction with the Axe… Read More
U.S. Congressman Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., has urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) to more fully examine the potential consequences of its proposal to move the Morehead City Port channel 700 feet west, away from Shackleford Banks and toward Atlantic Beach. In a Nov. 28 letter to Col. Robert Clark of the ACE’s… Read More
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is on board with Northern Water’s plan to mitigate the impact of the proposed Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) on fish and wildlife, according to Brian Werner of Northern Water. In November, the governor sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirming both his and the state’s position… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that it completed dredging of Cleveland Harbor and the Cuyahoga River shipping channel and claims it is now working well with Ohio officials as it works toward future dredging projects. Also on Friday, the Army Corps appealed a ruling by a federal judge who said the Corps… Read More
To combat beach erosion, village leaders in Brunswick County’s Bald Head Island hope to borrow sand from Jay Bird Shoals. The Army Corps of Engineers’ Wilmington office has received a request from village officials to dredge a section of the shoals and deposit the sand along South Beach, next to a terminal groin built in… Read More
Phase 1 of the Brownsville Public Utility Board’s resaca restoration project wrapped up just more than one year ago, and now the city-owned utility is beating the bushes for federal funds to proceed with Phase 2. The second phase involves three resaca systems snaking through the city: Town Resaca, Resaca de la Guerra and Resaca… Read More
The Brahmaputra dredging project is now sought to be developed into an integrated project. This integrated project will have the components of dredging, development of inland water transport, express highways along the banks of the river, conversion of its embankments into roads, etc. Apprising this, highly placed official sources here told this correspondent that this… Read More
The St. Louis district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public input on a proposed project to rehabilitate Crains Island for the purpose of restoring aquatic and wetland habitats on the 553-acre refuge. Crains Island is located on the Missouri side of Randolph County on the right downstream bank along the Mississippi… Read More
The town of Fenwick Island is working together to move potential dredging projects forward. The town formed a Dredging Committee, and its first meeting was Friday afternoon. Their, Committee Chair Bernie Merritt–also a town councilman–underscored the bays’ importance to the area’s tourism. “As strong as the beaches are, as such a jewel to us, our… Read More
The Environmental Protection Group (EPG) has filed a fresh Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Jammu and Kashmir High court to save Wular Lake, the largest fresh water lake in Asia. Advocate Shafqat Nazir, one of the core group members of EPG, filed the PIL seeking directions against the authorities who ruined the Lake in the… Read More
If you’ve driven by Lake Zumbro recently, you have probably noticed something a little off. The water level is six feet below normal, but it’s an intentional move by Olmsted County. They’re doing this to see which parts of the river need to be dredged, as sediment has been building up for years. “This is… Read More