South Carolina’s share of the long-planned Charleston Harbor deepening has been slashed by as much as a third, even though the overall cost remains at more than half-a-billion dollars. The catch is that the savings — $82 million to as much as $116 million — are far out on the horizon. Jim Newsome, CEO of… Read More
The San Mateo County Resource Conservation District has submitted its application for a Coastal Resiliency Grant from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. If accepted, the RCD plans to use the money to restore the Butano Creek channel through the Pescadero Marsh. Although the RCD won’t find out until October if its application has been… Read More
Iranian and Turkmen authorities have reached an agreement to allow dredging operations at the border river Atrek. The agreement was reached and a document signed during the meeting in Iran, with participation of top border guard of Turkmenistan and geology experts, said Ali Ahmadzadeh, commander of Iran’s Atrek border division, IRNA news agency reported March… Read More
Within the next six years, city staff would like all public beaches to be on a regular maintenance schedule. And that includes Croatan beach, where residents have said for years natural erosion was threatening the shoreline. “We wish it had been noticed earlier,” said Mike Kelly, a Croatan resident who was on a working group… Read More
On a piece of land wedged between Hawk Haven Vineyard and Winery and the Cape May Airport sits mountains of dredged materials from Ocean City and Stone Harbor. For the time being, the shipments of sediment have stopped due to a cease order from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. An inspector from the… Read More
A member of the Scarborough Borough Council Cabinet has responded to criticism concerning the Whitby dredger. Councillor Mike Cockerill has had his say following claims that the new dredger in the town, which returned at the end of last year, has not been carrying out enough work. In a statement, Cllr Cockerill said: Following the… Read More
The final agreement everybody on the Dare County Waterways Commission has been waiting months for may, or may not, allow dredging in Hatteras Inlet to begin this month. In fact, the memorandum of agreement between the state, the county and the Corps has seemed stuck on its own kind of bureaucratic shoal. At the March… Read More
The Port of Kalama Commission this week approved the final lease agreement with McMenamins to build a new hotel and brewpub on Port property. Construction of the facility is expected to commence on the site within the next 60 days. The new McMenamins destination will include a 40-room hotel, meeting rooms, gift shop, restaurant, brewery,… Read More
Contractors could charge as much as £40 million to dredge the Marine Lake of a huge build up of rubbish. Prams, trolleys and bikes are all known to be littering the Marine Lake bed on the promenade – a regularly recurring act of wanton vandalism – and the build up of rubbish is having a… Read More
A milestone in the Pee Dee was celebrated, as leaders from across the state joined the South Carolina Ports Authority for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Dillon port expansion. The ceremony took place on the 15- acre industrial park on Fairfield Road, where the new inland port will be. “We will be the only state… Read More
The beaches of Pinellas County attract millions of visitors every year from across the Tampa Bay area and around the world. However, with several recent storms that stalled over Pinellas County over the past few years, erosion has become a major issue for the area beaches. Since 2012, the county has focused on beach nourishment… Read More
The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources has temporarily halted the dredging of a water channel at the Hua Hin-Pattaya ferry pier for fear it would adversely affect the marine habitat, ecological system and artifical coral reefs in the area. The dredging is being done by the Marine Department, to create a channel for use… Read More
Sen. Rob Portman says he met with a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representative Tuesday to discuss continued efforts to dredge the Port of Cleveland and to press for answers. The senator said he expects the Corps to cooperate with a Senate “investigation into reports that the Corps cut its own budget as an excuse… Read More
Following a request from the Chairman of East Devon District Council, Councillor Stuart Hughes, councillors will delay discussing the Sidmouth and East Beach Management Plan (BMP) to a future date to allow the project’s Steering Group (SG) time to understand the considerations made during the Options Appraisal at the next SG meeting on 15 March… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to conduct emergency dredging operations along a stretch of the lower Kennebec River between Phippsburg and Bath. The work is designed to ensure the safe passage along the 500-foot-wide river channel of Navy destroyers built at Bath Iron Works. The ships enter the Atlantic Ocean at the… Read More