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Crews are removing more than 850,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the Cuyahoga River in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, as part of a major cleanup around the Gorge Dam. The material contains pollutants including heavy metals, oil, grease and industrial chemicals that have remained trapped in the river for decades. Instead of being left in… Read More
By Josephine Woolington/High Country News Dredge Oregon operates 24 hours a day, six days a week, with a crew of around 45. The barge, owned by the Port of Portland, is among a small dredging fleet that slurps sand in the shipping channel primarily from June until December. Its 11,000-pound steel sphere penetrates the riverbottom,… Read More
Louisiana lost 2,006 square miles of land between 1932 and 2016, which is roughly the land area of Delaware and about a quarter of all the wetland the state had when the counting started. That works out to an average of nearly 24 square miles a year, and at the current slower rate a piece… Read More
California is bracing for flooding and landslides ahead of the super El Niño expected in 2026. In San Clemente, that threat is already visible at North Beach, where rising seas and crashing waves have effectively cut in half what was once a long, walkable stretch of sand, according to The Independent. The Southern California city… Read More
By: Joy Crist Beach nourishment and groin repair work have resumed in Buxton following last week’s nor’easter, with the nourishment project now expected to be completed during the first week of October. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company announced that the Liberty Island returned to the project site earlier this week and has resumed work… Read More
By Cassandra Mischak A stretch of Venice Beach looks much different today than it did decades ago. City officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers celebrated the completion of the latest project to restore sand lost to erosion and storms. “I can remember when I was a kid on the Esplanade South,” said City… Read More
By Renata Petersen Venice Beach has new sand stretching 3.2 miles along the Gulf, the product of a $27.5 million restoration that wrapped up this fall without costing local taxpayers anything. The project deposited roughly 620,000 cubic yards of sand from just south of the Venice Inlet to just south of the Venice Fishing Pier,… Read More
By Randy Petersen Work to dredge Silver Lake and replace its dam could start as early as Oct. 12, if a proposed construction contract is approved Monday. The Rochester City Council will be asked Monday to approve a nearly $19 million construction contract for the project that has been in the works for more than… Read More
By Alan Bosworth The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has expanded two offshore sites for dredged-material disposal near Corpus Christi, Texas, under a final rule issued September 28 that takes effect October 28. The rule expands the Corpus Christi Ship Channel site from 0.61 to 1.05 square nautical miles, while the Corpus Christi New Work… Read More
By Amy S. Rosenberg With its full moon and stacked high tides over multiple days, last week’s nor’easter left Shore towns with some of the worst flooding and erosion since Hurricane Sandy. In dramatic fashion, the nor’easter produced some feared Shore scenarios: dunes sliced into cliffs, beaches vertically eroded, popular restaurants flooded to the point… Read More
By Colleen Uechi In North Kīhei where Mike Moran lives, the beaches extend across quieter stretches of coastline that are most popular with locals. Canoe clubs use them as a launching point into Mā‘alaea Bay. People walk their dogs along the shoreline. There are no lifeguard stands and far fewer tourists than bustling South Kīhei…. Read More
By Emily Cornell Arcadis, a global design and consultancy organization for natural and built assets, today joined the City of Virginia Beach and community stakeholders to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Windsor Woods Pump Station. This facility is a critical component of the City’s ongoing efforts to reduce flood risk while strengthening long-term resilience in… Read More
What’s the deal? Photon Marine has received US$647.1K grant, the inaugural MegaBoost award from the National Science Foundation Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York. The money funds a commercial-scale demonstration of marine electrification and distributed energy storage in New York State. What’s the endgame? The project will build an integrated marine electrification ecosystem with… Read More
With a Sept. 28 deadline approaching for public comment on a federal proposal to resume dredging on the Apalachicola River, Florida counties and river advocates are urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to consider alternatives they say could restore commercial navigation without repeating decades of environmental damage. The Corps is preparing an Environmental Impact… Read More
Connected tool for better performance Dredge Rx from DSC Dredge provides real-time access to operational data, alarms, production information, equipment hours and system performance from virtually anywhere. When issues arise, DSC’s support team can remotely access the system to assist with troubleshooting, review performance data and help customers identify solutions faster. The result is faster troubleshooting,… Read More