The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a new lieutenant colonel among its ranks. Former Maj. Nathaniel Weander, deputy commander of the USACE New Orleans District, pinned on the rank of lieutenant colonel during a promotion ceremony held Jan. 22, 2024, at the district headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. Family and friends alike attended the… Read More
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, will conduct two public meetings to present and discuss its Key Biscayne Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Feasibility Study for residents and interested parties. Public meetings will take place Wednesday, Jan. 24, and Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, from 6-8 p.m. at the Key Biscayne Community Center, 10 Village… Read More
Solana Beach and Encinitas have begun the process of growing their shorelines. Crews are now working on the Coastal Storm Damage and Reduction & Beach Replenishment project, a 50-year, $32 million initiative that will increase the size of the shoreline in partnership with US Army Corps of Engineers and California State Parks. The project aims to address decades… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers has changed its policy, regarding sand dredged from the Cape Cod Canal. The routine dredge work saw the Corps dispose of the sand in Cape Cod Bay. Now the Corps will deposit the sand on Town Neck Beach in Sandwich. Town Manager Bud Dunham says the sand will be used… Read More
A decades-long battle to restore navigable access on the Currituck Sound off Corolla appears to have taken a more upbeat tone at a recent meeting between representatives from Currituck County and Army Corps of Engineers staff. County Manager Ike McRee and state Sen. Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck, met with Corps officials Jan. 12 in Wilmington to… Read More
The city of Wabasha announced Monday it is partnering with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to manage the Mississippi River’s dredged sand. The moment the partnership became public, trucks began to move piles of dredged materials to a sand pit owned by Kohner Materials, a Wabasha-based company. Wabasha Port Authority President John Friedmeyer… Read More
2023 was a busy year for advancing cleanup of the Bellingham waterfront, and 2024 promises more of the same as dredging of contaminated sediment is expected to begin later this month at the Bellingham Shipping Terminal. With federal funding, the Port of Bellingham is making improvements to the terminal, including dredging about 22,000 cubic yards… Read More
In a competitive tender process that attracted many international bidders, Damen Shipyards has won the contract to build and supply four, fully electric, passenger car ferries for BC Ferries. These will be used for short-range services in the coastal waters of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). This order will take the total number… Read More
In partnership with the City of Newport News, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District has set a date to begin dredging the Deep Creek Navigation Channel. Dredging is expected to begin in the entrance channel Feb. 15 and start making way to the harbor. The work is set to be completed by mid-June…. Read More
A long-awaited project to restore the beaches along Solana Beach and Encinitas’ coastline has officially started. It is called the Solana Beach and Encinitas Coastal Storm Damage and Reduction & Beach Replenishment project. It began on Wednesday with the closure of the Fletcher Cove parking lot, the nearby overlook — both of which have reopened —… Read More
Efforts to add sand to the beach in San Clemente have been paused, with the contractor leaving the site following “ongoing sand quality issues” with the $14 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers replenishment project, according to city and federal officials. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to allow the contractor, Manson Construction,… Read More
From August until this month, the Army Corps of Engineers and contractor MCM Marine have been clearing sediment in Ludington Harbor, along the Lake Michigan shorelineas part of a dredging operation. During that time period, thousands of feet of pipe moved sediment from the upstream limit of the dredging, which is near the Badger’s dock… Read More
SOLANA BEACH — Over the next 60 days, residents will see the Solana Beach shoreline grow substantially in size as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredges and places 700,000 cubic yards of sand on the beach. The long-awaited USACE Coastal Storm Damage Reduction and Beach Replenishment Project kicked off Tuesday with the arrival of… Read More
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) – There could be new life for Snow’s Cut park soon as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is working on a plan to mitigate the erosion problem there. The Wilmington district of the USACE says it’s getting $15 million as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to do… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Sacramento District is hosting an informational public meeting to provide an update on environmental restoration activities to address contamination in soil vapor and groundwater at the former Titan 1-A Missile facility (Site) in Lincoln, California. This work is being conducted as part of the Defense Environmental Restoration Program’s… Read More