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A three-year study of possible solutions to Oceanside beach erosion has stalled after federal funding dried up and now the city is being asked to pony up as much as $1 million to restart it, a city official said Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers launched its “shoreline feasibility study” in March 2016 to… Read More
Contractors working on the Kalamazoo River cleanup project west of Otsego had to shut down when heavy rain swelled the river in October. “We shut down for two weeks and we probably lost three weeks in total,” on scene coordinator Paul Ruesch said. From Oct. 16 to about Nov. 4 the river was too high… Read More
An engineering organization has honored a Cape May County municipality for an innovative back bay dredging project. Avalon and its municipal engineering firm, Mott MacDonald, are the recipients of the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers’ 2017 Municipal Project of the Year honor. “This project was complex and involved many challenges solved only by innovative… Read More
The Town of Carolina Beach’s lake dredging project, which has been on hold for some time, continues its trudge toward a resolution. The project was suspended after a conflict with the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point (MOTSU), and will not continue until the town sorts out several issues. “We have made a bit of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit on Nov. 6 to clear shoals from Little Egg Inlet, and the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection is reviewing bids for the work, according to DEP press officer Lawrence Hajna. DEP Commissioner Bob Martin said earlier this year that dredging the inlet, which is a major… Read More
Are the gloves ready to come off? Wahkiakum County officials are trying to get everything in order for beach nourishment projects next year, and facing one major obstacle. County officials and their engineering consultants met Tuesday afternoon to go over the final section of the permitting process, the Section 408 review, and they feel good… Read More
Oak Island’s engineer will meet with a contractor Thursday to finalize plans for placing emergency sand along much of the beach, town council learned Tuesday night. Johnny Martin of Moffatt & Nichol presented preliminary figures for that project and other shoreline protection efforts. A crew finished the annual survey of the beach and nearshore bottom… Read More
After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acquires a new site in Ottawa for sand dredged from the Illinois River, the sand that gets deposited there will be free for the taking. “Once we put sand there, it’s fair game for anyone who wants it,” Tom Davison, an engineer and project manager with the U.S…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) and the Town of Greenwich is considering implementing of a study to look at ways to prevent the Bryam River from flooding. A public meeting is being held this week to give the public an opportunity to raise issues, concerns and ideas regarding the proposed study and its… Read More
WORK to dredge the Boyne River and make it safer still has not begun. However, it is getting closer. In February the State Government announced $1.5 million would be spent on the long-awaited Boyne River dredging project. There will be 12,000 cubic metres of sediment removed from the mouth of the river, across a 15m… Read More
Work has gotten started on a $4.3 million dredging project to clean 290,000 cubic yards of sediment out of the town’s North Cove, which is located near the mouth of the Connecticut River. Officials with the Connecticut Port Authority announced the start of dredging during a press conference Monday. The Authority is headquartered in Old… Read More
This week, work begins on a landmark dredging project to help transform East Yorkshire’s Pocklington Canal. This is the first time in over a century that two sections (totalling just under a mile) of the 9-mile canal are being dredged. This £152,000 project aims to finish just before Christmas and is led by the Canal… Read More
An application to dredge in a pipi bed for boat access has been withdrawn after an outcry from Russell residents. Staff from the Northland Regional and Far North District councils inspected a property at Uruti Bay, also known as Pomare Bay, last Thursday after being contacted by the public about a development which included a… Read More
The Borinquen Dredge is moving to the Calumet Cut. Executive Director Raymond “Mac” Wade made that report on behalf of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Tim Connell on Monday at a Port of Morgan City board meeting. The Borinquen Dredge, which has been working between the La. 182 and U.S. 90 bridges and contracted through… Read More
San Diego officials unveiled plans this week to spend $117 million over the next 10 years upgrading Mission Bay Park with new amenities, restored marshland and additional habitat for endangered species. New amenities will include cycling and pedestrian paths, playgrounds, a fitness course, lighting, signs, landscaping, resurfaced parking lots and rehabilitation of the seawall. City… Read More