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Every time it rains Sheena Sherratt and her family look nervously to the sky. She has lived along the banks of Christchurch’s Heathcote River for 15 years and water has reached above the floor of her home three times since the 2011 earthquakes. Sherratt and other residents living near the river told the Christchurch City… Read More
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito left SouthCoast last week with the notion that the region has the ability to become a juggernaut within the “blue economy.” The city’s port recently ranked as the most valuable in the country for the 17th consecutive year. But there’s more room to grow. “Dredging really activates the rest of the… Read More
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday launched dredging operations for the Barak river during the inauguration of the three-day Namami Barak festival The Barak river, designated as National Waterways-16, saw the commencement of the cleaning-up activity at Bhanga point in Karimganj district. The Barak river will link up the Barak Valley region of Assam… Read More
The surf lapped at the bottom of the dune line, erasing tire tracks left only a few hours earlier on the narrow strip of sand. Blame the shrunken strand on Hurricane Matthew, which last year consumed a third of the Nags Head beach. The most damage came at the south end of town. “There’s one… Read More
A massive cleanup project on Onondaga Lake is coming to an end. Honeywell’s final work of restoring shoreline habitat is slated to conclude this month. The company completed dredging 2.2 million cubic yards of lake bottom in 2014 and capping 475 acres of the bottom this year. Honeywell project manager John McAuliffe tells the Syracuse… Read More
A diversion channel tying into a levee with a recreation trail appears to be the best plan for flood protection in west Minot, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps held a public meeting in Minot Thursday to outline its rationale and take comments. The meeting is part of a $3 million… Read More
One of the line-items on the November 2017 California Coastal Commission agenda was a one-year extension of the beleaguered Broad Beach Replenishment Project. Following years of delays with issues ranging from sand sourcing to legal battles of all shapes and sizes, the project has been slow to get off the ground—and proponents of alternatives such… Read More
While generally regarded as a productive exercise, a meeting last Thursday between officials of local, state and federal governments on the need to curb shoaling in the Ocean City inlet focused on what could be done rather than what should be done. “Primarily, it was an overview of what dredging we expect to be able… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to dredge the Lake Worth Inlet this winter and will place the sand on the northern tip of the town’s shore. The Corps’ contractor, Weeks Marine, will begin delivering equipment to the beach today with the hope of completing mobilization by Thanksgiving, the town said. There will… Read More
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