The Siesta Key Association is asking Sarasota County to intervene in plans to renourish Lido Key, and demand that federal engineers perform a second, more exhaustive environmental study before the project moves forward. The association argues that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the project with the city of Sarasota, “arbitrarily dismissed… Read More
A plan to reduce erosion on the Huia Domain and foreshore has been approved by the Wait?kere Ranges Local Board following extensive consultation with the local community, iwi, coastal engineers and council representatives. The plan developed by all the stakeholders and signed off by the local board will: maintain the current seawall and rock revetment… Read More
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $13,696,687.00 contract for the Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project in Port Monmouth. The contract will help fulfill the project’s second phase, which includes constructing a system of levees, a floodwall, a tide gate, road closure structures, road raising… Read More
Como Lake was once a pretty man-made lake in the third-largest Erie County park. But over the years, so much silt has accumulated in the lake that it’s created an island, and the picturesque picnic spot is turning into an eyesore, according to some Lancaster officials and residents, who are calling on the county to… Read More
The appearance of the 123-foot offshore supply vessel Scarlett Isabella on the Manasquan Ridge is a bad omen to Capt. Jim Lovgren, a Point Pleasant Beach commercial fishermen. The Scarlett was in the hire of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is looking for potential sand on the outer continental shelf that could be… Read More
China Cosco Shipping (COSCO) was the first company to have a vessel transit the expanded Panama Canal, and now it is the first company to have a vessel allide with the canal. The 8,500 teu container ship Xin Fei Zhou hit with a wall while transiting the locks at Agua Clara on the Atlantic side… Read More
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to begin a dredged material unloading project at Crats Island in Wabasha the first week of August. The Corps’ contractor, JF Brennan Marine from La Crosse, mobilized to the site in June and has been preparing for the island unload. The site unloading project should be completed… Read More
The dredges Padre Island and Dodge Island are expected to return to Long Beach Island in the next two days, following repairs, and will begin beachfill in Loveladies this week. Meanwhile, replenishment work continues in North Beach, where the larger Liberty Island dredge is conducting operations. “The crew is assembling materials, and preparing equipment and… Read More
A shift in policy, away from building dams and toward running irrigation channels to farmland, has led to a 50 percent cut in the request for irrigation funding next year, the agriculture ministry says. U Myo Tint Tun, assistant secretary in the ministry, told The Myanmar Times on July 18 that expenditure in 2017-18 would… Read More
An investigative report out of a Pittsburgh news station said that Presque Isle State Park is “in danger of splitting in two.” But is the peninsula really going to break in two? The report out of Pittsburgh’s WTAE revealed a startling report about the potential of the park splitting, but Presque Isle State Park Operations… Read More
Residents had their last chance this week to comment on an environmental study that will help determine what type of shore protection the town will pursue along its southernmost beaches. By November, they could hear details about a plan to place more sand on the beach and in the water in Reach 8, which extends… Read More
Port Otago is going to put out tenders shortly in preparation for a $15 million 140m wharf extension at Port Chalmers, to better accommodate vessels over 280m in length. The venture was one of several presented to 100% owner the Otago Regional Council, where port chairman Dave Faulkner and chief executive Geoff Plunket yesterday outlined… Read More
sTwo projects that could help protect Smith Island from the ravages of nature – particularly on the vulnerable west side — are about to get underway in the offshore watermen’s community in Somerset County. A $2.4 million contract for a shoreline stabilization project at Rhodes Point was recently awarded to Coastal Design and Construction Inc…. Read More