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The project to deepen the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah is expected to cost taxpayers some $267 million more than previously estimated. Army Corps of Engineers officials said Wednesday they now estimate that the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project — or SHEP — will cost $973 million, 38 percent more than the $706 million… Read More
Stafford Township Mayor John Spodofora has announced a plan to solve the multifaceted problem of how to get lagoons and other areas of bay dredged, where to put the dredge material and how to protect the mainland from sea level rise and damage from future severe storms. He wants to use dredge material to build… Read More
Edgartown procurement officer Juliet Mulinare told Edgartown selectmen Monday that approximately 5,000 cubic yards of dewatered Katama sand was sold at $10 a cubic yard from a dredge project — 3,500 to Cow Bay Corp., and 1,500 to Thomas Melone, a Fuller Street Beach abutter. Bend in the Road Beach was nourished to the extent… Read More
Work on the dredging of the access to the Kingston Harbour is now 50 per cent complete. This was disclosed by Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Dr Horace Chang, during his contribution to the 2017/18 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives yesterday. The project, which is being… Read More
Rather than pay $11 million toward a $21 million Army Corps of Engineers project that would have added a large amount of dredged sand to the Soundview beach just west of the Lake Montauk inlet, East Hampton Town will instead encourage the agency to focus on dredging the inlet. T.E. McMorrow East Hampton Town will… Read More
The village’s nearly $80 million flood-mitigation plan is one step closer toward completion. The Army Corps of Engineers approved the plan last week, completing a months-long federal review of the village’s bid to radically reconfigure the flood-prone Mamaroneck and Sheldrake rivers. “We are closer to actual and significant flood mitigation than ever before,” said Mayor… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to rebuild the artificial dune covering Montauk’s infamous sandbag revetment and release East Hampton Town and Suffolk County from some of the original obligations for maintaining the sand-covered sea wall going forward. Town officials said on Tuesday that the Army Corps has said it will send contractors… Read More
On Thursday, March 30, the Richland-Wilkin Joint Powers Authority filed for a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority. The Joint Powers Authority wants Judge John Tunheim, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, to prevent the Corps and Diversion Authority from carrying out the proposed Fargo-Moorhead… Read More
Texas’ first plan for lessening damage from the next destructive hurricane calls for hundreds of millions of dollars in projects along the Texas coast, including turning a once-controversial housing project on Galveston Island into a nature preserve. The General Land Office recently issued its Texas Coastal Resiliency Master Plan, which calls for taking actions that… Read More
After five years of negotiations with the Jacksonville Port Authority and the Army Corps of Engineers, the St. Johns Riverkeeper is ready to take off the gloves and file a lawsuit within 30 days regarding the proposed St. Johns River dredging project, said Riverkeeper Lisa Rinaman. Rinaman discussed the dredging issue and two other legislative… Read More
Annual dredging of Charleston Harbor continued Tuesday, as the Army Corps of Engineers works to maintain the proper depth in the busy shipping channel. Harbor depth has been constantly on the minds of state and local leaders in recent years, as they’ve fought for federal approval to deepen the channel. Work will begin in December… Read More
Annual dredging of Charleston Harbor continued Tuesday, as the Army Corps of Engineers works to maintain the proper depth in the busy shipping channel. Harbor depth has been constantly on the minds of state and local leaders in recent years, as they’ve fought for federal approval to deepen the channel. Work will begin in December… Read More
Mississippi River Commission held its annual town hall meeting Monday. We learned why problems at the Hickman Fulton County Riverport Authority may not be fixed anytime soon. MRC spokesman Jim Pogue says, this year, the commission’s budget is tight. “Some years, we get funding to dredge in all 10 Memphis District harbors, but this year… Read More
Collier County officials are considering using dredging to fight beach erosion, but doing so will cost more than the current method of using trucks to haul sand. “It’s always going to cost more to dredge, but it’s always going to last longer,” Naples city councilman Reg Buxton said. While some suggest increasing the county’s tourist… Read More
New Hampshire’s congressional delegates are calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Hampton Harbor, where they say severe shoaling is harming local marine industries. U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., wrote a letter March 27 to the Army Corps of Engineers asking for the federal engineering and construction agency to quickly dredge the harbor,… Read More