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By Will Thomas OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Dare County leaders and Hatteras and Ocracoke Island organizations are all in Washington, D.C., this week, attending an annual summit that will allow leaders and organizations around the country to see firsthand the challenges the area is facing and how they can help change that. “This is an… Read More
By Joe Oliveto As the name might imply, Kansas’ Tuttle Creek Lake — which is actually a man-made reservoir whose construction was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1938 — consists primarily of, well, lots of water. That hasn’t stopped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) from working on a project that involves… Read More
By Conner Prince GRAND LAKE ST. MARYS, Ohio (WLIO) – Grand Lake St. Marys State Park is gearing up for this year’s dredging operations as their dredge crew is fully staffed for the first time in six years. Current plans include dredging at Bass Landing, Hidden Shores, Harbor Point, the campground lagoon area, Sandy Beach, the… Read More
By Gabriel San Roman San Clemente’s stunning coastline, which will serve as a backdrop to Olympic surfing in two years, has also turned into a battlefield over beach erosion. Construction crews, hopper dredges and bulldozers have worked to restore vanishing stretches of beach with much-needed sand. The city has also contracted a coastal administrator to… Read More
High marsh and transitional upland habitat is designed to support diamondback terrapin nesting as well as coastal bird species. The Wetlands Institute has been awarded a grant valued at $3,075,000 through New Jersey’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Natural Climate Solutions program to support the Salt Marsh Trail Revitalization project, an innovative effort to advance… Read More
By Sabrina Lee HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — After months of work, Hilton Head Island’s beach renourishment project is moving into its final phase as crews prepare to shift operations to South Beach — the island’s southern “toe” — next week. The $47.5 million effort, the fifth restoration of its kind and last performed in 2016, is replacing… Read More
AUSTIN, Texas— Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced that the Texas General Land Office (GLO) has awarded approximately $39.06 million to coastal improvement projects in Texas’ Upper Gulf Coast Region through its Coastal Management Program (CMP) Grant Cycle 31 and Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) program Cycle 14. Commissioner Buckingham made these announcements… Read More
Orion Marine Construction Inc., Port Lavaca, Texas, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract for pipeline maintenance dredging of the Matagorda Ship Channel from Peninsula to Point Comfort. The amount of this action is $11,858,900, with a total cumulative face value of $40,346,700. Bids were solicited via the internet with eight received. Work will be performed in… Read More
C and C JV LLC,* Chesapeake, Virginia, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract for dredging, stockpiling of sand materials, and construction of dikes. The amount of this action is $53,382,757, with a total cumulative face value of $122,185,770. Bids were solicited via the internet with five received. Work will be performed in Fishing Creek, Maryland, with… Read More
Last week, Manson’s newest hopper dredge FREDERICK PAUP successfully completed its first load on the Gulf Renourishment Pensacola Beach project in Pensacola, Florida. This milestone marks the first time the new hopper dredge has executed pump-off operations. The project includes dredging and placing sand—enough to fill five Olympic sized swimming pools—along the Gulf shoreline and… Read More
By Tom Bayles A wide sandbar sealing off Blind Pass between Sanibel and Captiva islands is growing longer every week. And while winds, tides, and storms can change its progress on any given day, so much sand is flowing south from a recent beach renourishment on Captiva Island that the pass is expected to close… Read More
By Gabriel San Roman San Clemente’s stunning coastline, which will serve as backdrop to Olympic surfing in two years, has also turned into a battlefield against beach erosion. Construction crews, hopper dredges and bulldozers have worked to patch up vanishing stretches of beach with much needed sand. The city has also contracted a coastal administrator to manage… Read More
In a maritime market increasingly defined by volatility, from war in the Middle East and the resulting whiplash freight and energy rates, William Doyle chose a moment of celebration in New Orleans to deliver a message grounded in something far less fashionable: stability. Speaking at the March 21 christening of Frederick Paup, a 15,000-cubic-meter trailing suction hopper dredge… Read More
By Joy Crist Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Woodard outlined a wide range of ongoing projects, priorities, and funding challenges during a detailed State of the County presentation at the Cape Hatteras Secondary School in Buxton on March 21. Addressing roughly 30 resident attendees directly, Woodard emphasized that the county’s work extends far… Read More
By Cassandra Garcia PALM BEACH, Fla. — Midtown Beach in Palm Beach is drawing crowds with sunny weather, but visitors are finding far less shoreline to enjoy as erosion continues to shrink the sand. The Town of Palm Beach is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a beach re-nourishment project aimed at… Read More