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Mayor Jay Gillian’s administration wants to spend a little over $100 million on capital improvement projects over the next five years. In a detailed presentation to City Council Jan. 25, city Finance Director Frank Donato and Vincent Bekier, aide to the mayor, went through the plan in detail. According to Donato, the administration will ask… Read More
A project to revamp Mirror Lake in the Harvey S. Firestone Park is on schedule to begin next month, pending council approval. The project received unanimous approval from the park board during its recent meeting following a presentation from the Columbiana Restoration and Beautification (R&B) Committee and Herbert, Rowland and Grubic Inc. The R&B is… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given the green light to the state’s first new reservoir in 30 years, a project expected to meet the water needs of North Texas’ rapidly growing population for years to come. Construction of the Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir will start this spring, northeast of Bonham in Fannin… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes to spend $3 million next year to save Passamaquoddy Tribe land in Down East Maine from shoreline erosion. The erosion at Pleasant Point Reservation has washed away backyards within about 30 feet of some of the tribal homes near a reservation church and senior center off Route 190… Read More
Local, state and federal officials may collaborate on a new study involving the Mentor Lagoons Marina. The latest analysis — estimated to cost $700,000 — would determine the feasibility of a project to protect the Mentor Harbor channel at the lagoons. The work would reconfigure the channel to improve boater safety and remove a sunken… Read More
The tender for construction of a second cruise ship berth for Sydney harbour has been published, and it is to be built at the site immediately to the north of the current terminal. The 483-page document was published on the Nova Scotia government procurement website Friday morning. It had been expected to be posted earlier… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) feasibility study for a long-time fix to the chronic shoaling problems in the Inlet might still be funded, but the local share won’t come from the Ocean City beach replenishment fund. The Inlet and other channels in and around the commercial harbor naturally fill in and are in constant… Read More
A barnacle-encased rusty pipe points like a naval gun barrel, ready to shoot out a coarse sandy defense that protects million-dollar condos and tourist dollars. The grainy discharge will bring back what Irma and Matthew whisked away, in the process soothing coastal property and business owners who lived through the erosive nightmare of those storms…. Read More
The Hudson River would be cleaner if there were more dredging, said former Regional EPA Administrator Judith Enck. Speaking at a Post-Star Editorial Board meeting, she said EPA had to compromise to get General Electric to commit to any cleaning of the river. GE eventually removed almost 70 percent of the PCBs from the areas… Read More
A public inquiry is to be held over a planning application to extract sand from Lough Neagh. Sand has been dredged from the bottom of the lough for many years without permission. Environmentalists have challenged the unauthorised extraction saying it is impacting on an internationally important and protected wildlife site. The sand companies had put… Read More
Department of Transport will start maintenance dredging at Dawesville’s ocean entrance this week, helping maintain the navigational channel for boating. The works will cost about $870,000 and are expected to be completed in May. Department coastal infrastructure acting general manager Donna West said the annual sand replenishment at Dawesville helped maintain the natural northward flow… Read More
The sand currently being dredged from the Little Egg Inlet is finding a new home along some of Long Beach Island’s southern beaches, state officials announced. Late last year, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection awarded an $18.4 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. of Oak Brook, Illinois to dredge 700,000… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comments on a plan to deposit dredge spoils from the Columbia River near East Sand Island and North Head Lighthouse in Pacific County. Spoils would be played on the southern shore of East Sand Island, a thin east-west band of dredge deposits near the entrance to… Read More
Finding solutions for short- and long-term erosion at vulnerable sites along Plum Island’s shoreline is the ultimate goal of a study funded through a federal and local partnership. Selectmen recently decided to enter into a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to share costs for the hurricane and storm damage protection feasibility study… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers next month will begin a long-planned effort to rehabilitate the North Jetty at Cape Disappointment State Park. Nearby Benson and Waikiki beaches will remain open during construction. However, the jetty, North Jetty Road and some nearby parking lots will be closed for much of 2018 and 2019, according to… Read More