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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has begun dredging operations this week in Sandusky Harbor to maintain safe and navigable waterways for Great Lakes commercial vessels, recreational boaters and other harbor users on Lake Erie. The Buffalo District awarded a $628,000 contract in July 2026 to Michigan-based Morrish-Wallace Construction Co. to complete the… Read More
By Kamy Smelser The North Carolina State Ports Authority is pausing its proposed Wilmington Harbor deepening project amid concerns about potential environmental impacts, including the disturbance of PFAS, commonly known as “forever chemicals,” in the Cape Fear River. Ports authority Executive Director Brian Clark sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requesting… Read More
By: Joy Crist Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company has announced that the 2026 Buxton beach nourishment project has been completed, with the contractor delivering the final load of sand on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. Approximately 1.9 million cubic yards of sand were placed along the shoreline within the project area, providing increased protection for… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started dredging along the Lewes & Rehoboth Canal, with work expected to continue through March 2027. Some homeowners living near the canal are now raising concerns about where the dredged material will be placed. The Army Corps previously awarded a $9.6 million contract to Cottrel Contracting Corporation of… Read More
By Anthony Sabella A 1,500-foot stretch of the Elizabeth River shoreline in Norfolk has been restored to its natural state through a partnership between Norfolk Southern and the Elizabeth River Project. The restoration, located at Lambert’s Point near a rail line on Norfolk Southern property, began in 2020 and is designed to strengthen the shoreline against… Read More
By Natalia Kaminski Sarasota County commissioners have approved five efforts to plan and manage Midnight Pass. County staff say the goal is to keep Midnight Pass open and to maintain safety and consistency for people who use it. County survey works underway County staff have been running weekly surveys of the pass, tracking its depth… Read More
By Bilyana Garland Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds came to the Guana Reserve Monday to outline an environmental platform focused on restoring Florida’s waterways while preparing for continued growth. Donalds said water quality should be a bipartisan issue and announced a statewide restoration grant program modeled after the Everglades restoration effort. He said the plan… Read More
By Jessica Nester U.S. Sen. Chris Coons said he is working with Delaware’s federal delegation and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to secure an additional $30 million in federal funding for beach replenishment along the state’s coast. The new funding effort comes as Delaware leaders assess erosion and dune damage left by… Read More
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