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Residents in the southern portion of Ocean County’s Lavallette last week noticed that a beach had become markedly wider since late May. Some even say that the beach around Trenton Avenue doubled in size from last year. How did this happen? The Army Corps of Engineers earlier this month finished the first phase of beach… Read More
Local residents are encouraged to attend a public hearing in Point Richmond next month regarding significant plans to enhance the nearby Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline. The meeting, which will take place July 19 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., will take place at the Point Richmond Community Center at 139 Washington Ave. There, residents will learn… Read More
City Council on Thursday approved a pair of resolutions authorizing the municipality to seek contractors for back bay dredging projects scheduled to begin in September. One contract is for hydraulic dredging of the Carnival Bayou area and the other is for mechanical dredging of Sunny Harbor and South Harbor, according to a memo drafted by… Read More
While it’s going to be August before the Kitty Hawk portion of this year’s beach nourishment project officially begins, a small part of the town’s oceanfront will be widened soon. The sand will come from the subline at Helga Street in Kill Devil Hills, and as much as 2,000 feet of beach into Kitty Hawk… Read More
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) highlighted on Monday an advance in the $3 million federal investment necessary for Ocean City’s beach nourishment. Cardin hosted a press conference on the Ocean City Boardwalk along with other officials, including Mayor Richard Meehan, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project manager Justin Callahan to… Read More
Boating south of Fort Myers Beach should get a lot easier soon. After years of permitting tussles, Louisiana-based Coastal Dredging has started sucking sandy underwater soil from Big Carlos Pass, between Estero Island and Lovers Key. Once that’s finished, the floating rig and onshore bulldozer/backhoe team will move south to New Pass, between Big Hickory… Read More
Lowering twin suction arms into the water, the federal dredge Currituck sucks sand out of the Stage Harbor channel, and into the open hopper running stem to stern in the 146-foot-long vessel. A short steam away, and the clam shell bottom of the dredge swings open depositing as much as 315 cubic yards per load… Read More
Dredging crews left the Hudson River two years ago, but criticism of the $1.7 billion cleanup is bubbling up again. Advocates who want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to order crews back on the river are expected in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday night as the agency holds a public meeting on its review of the Superfund… Read More
Consumers Energy has begun dredging the Flint River near the University of Michigan-Flint campus. They’re removing pollutants that have been collecting there for 100 years. In the early 1900s, there was a plant on the banks of the river that turned coal into a burnable gas. Coal tars were a side product that were dumped… Read More
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) announced this week that the recovery efforts facing the Lower Menominee River Area of Concern (AOC) have reached two major advances. Contamination by industrial activities had led to the river’s AOC designation as far back as 1987, under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. It was found to… Read More
It’s going to take more federal money to keep the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project on time and on track, said Georgia’s congressional delegation in a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee. The letter warned that underfunding the massive civil works project could cost the country more than $1 billion. Led by U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter,… Read More
Citizens Water has begun dredging Hinkle Creek at Little Chicago Road bridge. Representatives indicate this is a one-step removal process, meaning that the excavator dumps the sediment onto the barge, then unloads the sediment into dump trucks that haul the sediment to a dump site. Citizens expects the dredging of this portion of Hinkle to… Read More
The Town of Sandwich is looking into dredging Old Harbor to clear excess sand that has drifted and blown there over the years, and to use that sand to help shore up Town Neck Beach. The proposal for the work was brought to the Sandwich Board of Selectmen on June 15. Although the selectmen seemed… Read More
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled against beachfront homeowners who are seeking to block the state from taking parts of their land for shoreline replenishment projects. Owners of about two dozen properties on Long Beach Island and in northern Ocean County claim the state doesn’t have the authority to take private property for the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed with calls from area legislators to extend public comment on its plans to dredge part of the Mississippi River near Wabasha. Previously set to end Friday, the Corps said in a press release that it decided to extend the public comment period after listening to community concerns… Read More